Time Patrol, Poul Anderson
Time Patrol, Poul Anderson
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Time Patrol

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: Wayne Mitchell

Unabridged: 23 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/24/2020


Synopsis

Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering—or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists—erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Overhaul on May 01, 2024

"La Patrulla del Tiempo" es un clásico indiscutible de la ciencia ficción y una obra maestra de la ucronía, escrita por Poul Anderson, Gran Maestro Nebula y el autor que más premios Hugo ha obtenido en toda la historia del género. En 1960, Anderson publicaba la que entonces parecía una obra cerrada,......more

Goodreads review by J.J. on January 26, 2021

La Patrulla del Tiempo es de esas obras cuya influencia eclipsa a la obra en si, a tal grado que a la gente tiene que recordarsele que de toda esta noción de la historia alternativa Poul Anderson fue uno de sus pioneros. Si bien el padre de los viajes en el tiempo fue Wells, la forma de explorar la......more

Goodreads review by Sara on April 14, 2016

La patrulla del tiempo es un libro esperado por muchos lectores de ciencia ficción, con una edición de lujo para nuestras estanterías y es que los relatos que componen este libro son de gran calidad y no hay duda de porque han conseguido llegar a ser una referencia para la ciencia ficción. Aunque no......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on August 12, 2017

-Cerca de lo kitsch, sin serlo, respecto al género pero llamativo en cuanto a los cambios de línea temporal sobre los que trabaja.- Género. Ciencia ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro La patrulla del tiempo (publicación original: The Time Patrol, 1991) conoceremos a Manse Everard, un agente de la......more

Goodreads review by Manuel on November 24, 2023

ENGLISH: This book collects all the stories of the guardians of time except one. Four of the first five I had read several times in a Dutch translation of the book Guardians of Time, and it is one of my favorite Anderson novels, after Orbit Unlimited. The other ("The Falls of Gibraltar") I have now......more