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袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍
袗谢褜褌械褉薪邪褌懈胁薪邪 褨褋褌芯褉褨褟 蟹邪胁卸写懈 褋谢褍谐褍胁邪褌懈屑械 蟹邪褏芯锌谢懈胁懈屑 锌芯谢械屑 写谢褟 褍褟胁薪懈褏 械泻褋锌械褉懈屑械薪褌褨胁, 薪邪 泻褕褌邪谢褌 褌芯谐芯, 邪 褖芯 褌褉邪锌懈谢芯褋褟 斜, 褟泻斜懈 褋胁芯谐芯 褔邪褋褍 袪懈屑褋褜泻邪 褨屑锌械褉褨褟 薪械 蟹薪懈泻谢邪, 邪 锌褉芯写芯胁卸懈谢邪 褋胁芯褦 褨褋薪褍胁邪薪薪褟, 邪斜芯 卸 褦胁褉芯锌械泄褑褨 蟹邪锌褨蟹薪懈谢懈褋褟 蟹 胁褨写泻褉懈褌褌褟屑 袗屑械褉懈泻懈? 啸褨写 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 褌芯写褨 斜 蟹屑褨薪懈胁褋褟 褉邪写懈泻邪谢褜薪懈屑 褔懈薪芯屑, 邪 褋胁褨褌褍, 褟泻懈屑 屑懈 蟹薪邪褦屑芯 泄芯谐芯 褌械锌械褉, 薪褨泻芯谢懈 斜 薪械 褨褋薪褍胁邪谢芯. 小邪屑械 褌邪泻懈屑 蟹邪谐褉芯蟹邪屑 胁褌褉褍褔邪薪薪褟 褍 褏褨写 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 锌褉芯褌懈褋褌芯褩褌褜 袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍 鈥� 屑芯谐褍褌薪褟 芯褉谐邪薪褨蟹邪褑褨褟, 褟泻邪 写褨褦 褋泻褉褨蟹褜 褨 蟹邪胁卸写懈, 褍 胁褋褨褏 褔邪褋邪褏 褍褋褨褏 屑懈褋谢懈屑懈褏 械锌芯褏.
笑懈泻谢 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪褜 芦袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍禄, 锌褉懈褋胁褟褔械薪懈泄 褔邪褋芯胁懈屑 褌邪 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪懈屑 锌邪褉邪写芯泻褋邪屑, 邪 褌邪泻芯卸 薪邪写蟹胁懈褔邪泄薪芯 褋泻谢邪写薪褨泄, 邪谢械 泄 褋褌褉邪褕械薪薪芯 蟹邪褏芯锌谢懈胁褨泄 褋谢褍卸斜褨 泄芯谐芯 锌褉邪褑褨胁薪懈泻褨胁, 褟泻懈屑, 芯泻褉褨屑 薪械泄屑芯胁褨褉薪懈褏 锌褉懈谐芯写 褍 胁褋褨褏 械锌芯褏邪褏, 褨薪泻芯谢懈 写芯胁芯写懈褌褜褋褟 锌芯褋褌邪胁邪褌懈 锌械褉械写 写芯胁芯谢褨 褋泻谢邪写薪懈屑懈 泄 薪械蟹胁懈褔薪懈屑懈 屑芯褉邪谢褜薪芯-械褌懈褔薪懈屑懈 写懈谢械屑邪屑懈, 邪 褌邪泻芯卸 褉芯斜懈褌懈 写芯胁芯谢褨 薪械锌褉芯褋褌懈泄 褨 斜芯谢褞褔懈泄 胁懈斜褨褉, 褉褟褌褍褞褔懈 薪邪褕褍 褉械邪谢褜薪褨褋褌褜 胁褨写 泻芯谢邪锌褋褍.
笑懈泻谢 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪褜 芦袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍禄, 锌褉懈褋胁褟褔械薪懈泄 褔邪褋芯胁懈屑 褌邪 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪懈屑 锌邪褉邪写芯泻褋邪屑, 邪 褌邪泻芯卸 薪邪写蟹胁懈褔邪泄薪芯 褋泻谢邪写薪褨泄, 邪谢械 泄 褋褌褉邪褕械薪薪芯 蟹邪褏芯锌谢懈胁褨泄 褋谢褍卸斜褨 泄芯谐芯 锌褉邪褑褨胁薪懈泻褨胁, 褟泻懈屑, 芯泻褉褨屑 薪械泄屑芯胁褨褉薪懈褏 锌褉懈谐芯写 褍 胁褋褨褏 械锌芯褏邪褏, 褨薪泻芯谢懈 写芯胁芯写懈褌褜褋褟 锌芯褋褌邪胁邪褌懈 锌械褉械写 写芯胁芯谢褨 褋泻谢邪写薪懈屑懈 泄 薪械蟹胁懈褔薪懈屑懈 屑芯褉邪谢褜薪芯-械褌懈褔薪懈屑懈 写懈谢械屑邪屑懈, 邪 褌邪泻芯卸 褉芯斜懈褌懈 写芯胁芯谢褨 薪械锌褉芯褋褌懈泄 褨 斜芯谢褞褔懈泄 胁懈斜褨褉, 褉褟褌褍褞褔懈 薪邪褕褍 褉械邪谢褜薪褨褋褌褜 胁褨写 泻芯谢邪锌褋褍.
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Poul Anderson
1,567听books1,066听followersPseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
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Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
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May 1, 2024
"La Patrulla del Tiempo" es un cl谩sico indiscutible de la ciencia ficci贸n y una obra maestra de la ucron铆a, escrita por Poul Anderson, Gran Maestro Nebula y el autor que m谩s premios Hugo ha obtenido en toda la historia del g茅nero. En 1960, Anderson publicaba la que entonces parec铆a una obra cerrada, Guardianes del Tiempo, en la que se inclu铆an cuatro relatos protagonizados por un carism谩tico patrullero del tiempo, Manse Everard.
Esas historias hab铆an aparecido previamente en la revista The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction y eran, todas ellas, aventuras de una polic铆a del tiempo que deb铆a vigilar el pasado para evitar que la futura existencia de una m谩quina del tiempo pudiera alterar el devenir de la humanidad.
En la d茅cada de 1980 esta serie se ampli贸 con varios t铆tulos adicionales en torno al mismo protagonista, hasta completar la presente versi贸n en un solo volumen.
Desde entonces, esta asombrosa revisi贸n de la historia de la humanidad se ha convertido en un cl谩sico de la ciencia ficci贸n moderna.
Manse Everard es un patrullero del tiempo, uno de los esforzados paladines que protegen la historia de las alteraciones que una m谩quina del tiempo podr铆a introducir en la incierta matriz del futuro.
En sus diversas aventuras por el pasado, lo vemos intrigando entre los persas de Cambises, Astiages y Ciro en su guerra con Grecia; con los conquistadores espa帽oles y el imperio inca; con los vikingos y godos en la Escandinavia regida por Od铆n; en la Jerusal茅n de David y Salom贸n; en la Germania invadida por Roma y en otros muchos momentos cruciales del pasado de la humanidad.
El resultado es una extensa y general visi贸n de la historia que fue, pudo ser y tal vez ser谩
Con toda esa especulaci贸n por parte de los lectores.
"La Patrulla del Tiempo", una de las referencias claves de El Ministerio del Tiempo. Estupenda serie que recomiendo a todos.
Me ha faltado enganche. Es entretenido pero no es un libro que te zampes del tir贸n. Y en alguna cosilla se nota la 茅poca en la que fue escrito.
Acompa帽as al protagonista descubriendo los viajes temporales y con cada nuevo relato el viaje en el tiempo es un interesante recurso para adentrarse en otras 茅pocas hist贸ricas y recorrerla.
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Esas historias hab铆an aparecido previamente en la revista The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction y eran, todas ellas, aventuras de una polic铆a del tiempo que deb铆a vigilar el pasado para evitar que la futura existencia de una m谩quina del tiempo pudiera alterar el devenir de la humanidad.
En la d茅cada de 1980 esta serie se ampli贸 con varios t铆tulos adicionales en torno al mismo protagonista, hasta completar la presente versi贸n en un solo volumen.
Desde entonces, esta asombrosa revisi贸n de la historia de la humanidad se ha convertido en un cl谩sico de la ciencia ficci贸n moderna.
Manse Everard es un patrullero del tiempo, uno de los esforzados paladines que protegen la historia de las alteraciones que una m谩quina del tiempo podr铆a introducir en la incierta matriz del futuro.
En sus diversas aventuras por el pasado, lo vemos intrigando entre los persas de Cambises, Astiages y Ciro en su guerra con Grecia; con los conquistadores espa帽oles y el imperio inca; con los vikingos y godos en la Escandinavia regida por Od铆n; en la Jerusal茅n de David y Salom贸n; en la Germania invadida por Roma y en otros muchos momentos cruciales del pasado de la humanidad.
El resultado es una extensa y general visi贸n de la historia que fue, pudo ser y tal vez ser谩
Con toda esa especulaci贸n por parte de los lectores.
"La Patrulla del Tiempo", una de las referencias claves de El Ministerio del Tiempo. Estupenda serie que recomiendo a todos.
Me ha faltado enganche. Es entretenido pero no es un libro que te zampes del tir贸n. Y en alguna cosilla se nota la 茅poca en la que fue escrito.
Acompa帽as al protagonista descubriendo los viajes temporales y con cada nuevo relato el viaje en el tiempo es un interesante recurso para adentrarse en otras 茅pocas hist贸ricas y recorrerla.
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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 noci贸n 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 historia y de preguntarse m谩s hacia el pasado qu茅 ser铆a diferente si鈥� encontr贸 m谩s ecos en los escritores posteriores. Aunque hoy en d铆a vemos esta idea del viaje en el tiempo por todos lados, en su momento era novedosa y a Anderson debe reconoc茅rsele como uno de sus primeros campeones.
Hay una diferencia entre los relatos y las novelas cortas de esta colecci贸n. Los primeros est谩n escritos en estilo muy vivaz, el t铆pico de las revistas de ciencia ficci贸n de la edad de oro. Anderson era muy bueno para detallar la acci贸n, aunque no tanto como por ejemplo Howard. Por otro lado, los personajes quedan un poco a deber. El propio Everard tiene muy poco car谩cter, poca motivaci贸n y nada que cuestione, afirme o soporte su sentido del deber. S贸lo tiene una chamba y la hace. Los villanos son similares. Las novelas cortas tienen un poco m谩s de desarrollo, un poco m谩s de motivaci贸n y personajes m谩s trabajados, s贸lo que en todas menos una el personaje principal no es el propio Everard.
Con todo, parece que estas novelas cortas y relatos son la manera en la que Anderson aprovech贸 para dar clases de historia universal y jugar con ella. Algo que hay que reconocer mucho es que Anderson no se fue por la f谩cil: no tom贸 "Las quince batallas decisivas de la historia" y se puso a ver qu茅 habr铆a pasado de haber tenido un resultado diferente. Nada de Marat贸n o Waterloo. S贸lo una historia hace uso de este concepto pero es la excepci贸n y lo hace para pintar un mundo muy, muy diferente (una civilizaci贸n occidental no latina). Anderson termina as铆 mostr谩ndose como un hombre profundamente culto, destacando detalles que s贸lo alguien con un gran entusiasmo y conocimiento de ciertos pasajes de la historia entender铆a. Su prop贸sito es demostrar, como cita Stephen King en el ep铆grafe de El Instituto, que "los grandes eventos cuelgan de bisagras muy peque帽as". Y as铆 llegamos a la clase de historia, entendiendo cosas peque帽as que habr铆an cambiado todo. Hay momentos en que este inter茅s acad茅mico eclipsa la narraci贸n: es particularmente dif铆cil seguir a toda la pista de tribus g贸ticas en la magn铆fica novela corta del Pesar de Od铆n y tambi茅n es complicado con las tribus germ谩nicas de la de Civilis. Fuera de eso, es una experiencia bonita, no demasiado emocionante, pero s铆 con preguntas buenas para ver qu茅 improbable ha sido la cadena de eventos que nos ha tra铆do hasta aqu铆.
Hay una diferencia entre los relatos y las novelas cortas de esta colecci贸n. Los primeros est谩n escritos en estilo muy vivaz, el t铆pico de las revistas de ciencia ficci贸n de la edad de oro. Anderson era muy bueno para detallar la acci贸n, aunque no tanto como por ejemplo Howard. Por otro lado, los personajes quedan un poco a deber. El propio Everard tiene muy poco car谩cter, poca motivaci贸n y nada que cuestione, afirme o soporte su sentido del deber. S贸lo tiene una chamba y la hace. Los villanos son similares. Las novelas cortas tienen un poco m谩s de desarrollo, un poco m谩s de motivaci贸n y personajes m谩s trabajados, s贸lo que en todas menos una el personaje principal no es el propio Everard.
Con todo, parece que estas novelas cortas y relatos son la manera en la que Anderson aprovech贸 para dar clases de historia universal y jugar con ella. Algo que hay que reconocer mucho es que Anderson no se fue por la f谩cil: no tom贸 "Las quince batallas decisivas de la historia" y se puso a ver qu茅 habr铆a pasado de haber tenido un resultado diferente. Nada de Marat贸n o Waterloo. S贸lo una historia hace uso de este concepto pero es la excepci贸n y lo hace para pintar un mundo muy, muy diferente (una civilizaci贸n occidental no latina). Anderson termina as铆 mostr谩ndose como un hombre profundamente culto, destacando detalles que s贸lo alguien con un gran entusiasmo y conocimiento de ciertos pasajes de la historia entender铆a. Su prop贸sito es demostrar, como cita Stephen King en el ep铆grafe de El Instituto, que "los grandes eventos cuelgan de bisagras muy peque帽as". Y as铆 llegamos a la clase de historia, entendiendo cosas peque帽as que habr铆an cambiado todo. Hay momentos en que este inter茅s acad茅mico eclipsa la narraci贸n: es particularmente dif铆cil seguir a toda la pista de tribus g贸ticas en la magn铆fica novela corta del Pesar de Od铆n y tambi茅n es complicado con las tribus germ谩nicas de la de Civilis. Fuera de eso, es una experiencia bonita, no demasiado emocionante, pero s铆 con preguntas buenas para ver qu茅 improbable ha sido la cadena de eventos que nos ha tra铆do hasta aqu铆.
February 26, 2018
Si os encontr谩is este libro en la secci贸n "Ciencia Ficci贸n" de vuestra librer铆a, cambiarlo de lugar y ponerlo en la secci贸n "Historia universal detallada con m谩quinas del tiempo".
Esta antolog铆a es una recopilaci贸n de relatos sobre La patrulla del tiempo, una patrulla que defiende la Historia de las alteraciones que pudieran surgir y que cambian nuestro pasado.
Al principio todo muy bonito, acompa帽as al protagonista descubriendo los viajes temporales pero con cada nuevo relato el viaje en el tiempo es una mera excusa para adentrarse en una 茅poca hist贸rica y explicarla al detalle.
He aprendido de hunos, de romanos, de persas, los reyes de all铆, los de all谩, los conquistadores, las cruzadas...y as铆 una larga lista de nombres. Y sinceramente termina aburriendo.
Me ha faltado m谩s continuidad con el protagonista, un objetivo global que te incite a seguir leyendo y que no sea una simple revisi贸n de distintas 茅pocas hist贸ricas.
Poul Anderson demuestra que sabe de historia y tiene todo el m茅rito del mundo, pero no leas esto con ganas de ciencia ficci贸n porque te va a decepcionar.
Esta antolog铆a es una recopilaci贸n de relatos sobre La patrulla del tiempo, una patrulla que defiende la Historia de las alteraciones que pudieran surgir y que cambian nuestro pasado.
Al principio todo muy bonito, acompa帽as al protagonista descubriendo los viajes temporales pero con cada nuevo relato el viaje en el tiempo es una mera excusa para adentrarse en una 茅poca hist贸rica y explicarla al detalle.
He aprendido de hunos, de romanos, de persas, los reyes de all铆, los de all谩, los conquistadores, las cruzadas...y as铆 una larga lista de nombres. Y sinceramente termina aburriendo.
Me ha faltado m谩s continuidad con el protagonista, un objetivo global que te incite a seguir leyendo y que no sea una simple revisi贸n de distintas 茅pocas hist贸ricas.
Poul Anderson demuestra que sabe de historia y tiene todo el m茅rito del mundo, pero no leas esto con ganas de ciencia ficci贸n porque te va a decepcionar.
September 27, 2013
This compilation of Anderson's Time Patrol stories is great. Some reviewers complain that the main character is a little flat or that the plots are fairly predictable - both those complaints are valid - but that misses the point of these stories. These are great counterfactuals. What happens when something goes different at a particular point in time? How can you tell if those are important points in time? What were those times and places like?
The longer pieces were my favorites - Star of the Sea, The Year of Ransom, and the Sorrow of Odin the Goth. Star of the Sea is fascinating because we learn the story of the important character backwards - our Time Patrol heroes keep jumping back in time to learn her story from an earlier perspective. In that way it's a bit like the movie Memento. The Year of Ransom drives home the idea that primitive people are pretty clever even if they don't have our technology/science, and they are underestimated to our hero's peril. The Sorrow of Odin the Goth really sunk me into the era of the story. The details of the story brought it to life.
Well worth the read.
The longer pieces were my favorites - Star of the Sea, The Year of Ransom, and the Sorrow of Odin the Goth. Star of the Sea is fascinating because we learn the story of the important character backwards - our Time Patrol heroes keep jumping back in time to learn her story from an earlier perspective. In that way it's a bit like the movie Memento. The Year of Ransom drives home the idea that primitive people are pretty clever even if they don't have our technology/science, and they are underestimated to our hero's peril. The Sorrow of Odin the Goth really sunk me into the era of the story. The details of the story brought it to life.
Well worth the read.
April 14, 2016
La patrulla del tiempo es un libro esperado por muchos lectores de ciencia ficci贸n, con una edici贸n de lujo para nuestras estanter铆as 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 ficci贸n. Aunque no estoy muy de acuerdo con la promoci贸n asoci谩ndolo con la serie de televisi贸n que se inspir贸 en el libro, para los que les gusta este g茅nero, encontrar谩n una lectura obligatoria y entretenida.
Poul Anderson es uno de los mejores escritores del g茅nero no s贸lo por sus historias sino por su gran narrativa, datos hist贸ricos e imaginaci贸n.
Ha sido una lectura fascinante y muy adictiva. Si te gustan los viajes en el tiempo y algo de historia, este libro va a ser tu lectura del verano. Lo recomiendo para cuando haya tiempo, para leerlo sin agobio ni prisas y disfrutar de las historias creadas por Poul Anderson sin ning煤n tipo de interrupci贸n.
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Poul Anderson es uno de los mejores escritores del g茅nero no s贸lo por sus historias sino por su gran narrativa, datos hist贸ricos e imaginaci贸n.
Ha sido una lectura fascinante y muy adictiva. Si te gustan los viajes en el tiempo y algo de historia, este libro va a ser tu lectura del verano. Lo recomiendo para cuando haya tiempo, para leerlo sin agobio ni prisas y disfrutar de las historias creadas por Poul Anderson sin ning煤n tipo de interrupci贸n.
Rese帽a completa en:
April 29, 2024
袙 锌械褉褕芯屑褍 褌芯屑褨 蟹褨斜褉邪薪褨 锌褉邪褑褨, 褟泻褨 邪胁褌芯褉 锌懈褋邪胁 胁锌褉芯写芯胁卸 30 褉芯泻褨胁.
袩械褉褕褨 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪薪褟 泻芯褉芯褌泻褨, 胁 褟泻懈褏 邪胁褌芯褉, 谐褉褍斜芯 邪谢械 写懈薪邪屑褨褔薪芯, 薪邪屑邪谐邪褦褌褜褋褟 锌械褉械写邪褌懈 褋胁芯褞 褨写械褞. 袩械褉褋芯薪邪卸褨 锌谢芯褋泻褨, 褋谢褍谐褍褞褌褜 褋褍褌芯 褟泻 械谢械屑械薪褌 褉褍褏褍 褋褞卸械褌褍. 袙卸械 锌褨蟹薪褨褕褨 锌褉邪褑褨 芯斜褉芯褋褌邪褞褌褜 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪懈屑 褎邪泻褌邪卸械屑 (邪谢械 褨 胁褨薪 薪械 薪邪写褌芯 薪邪写褨泄薪懈泄), 蟹 写械褌邪谢褜薪懈屑懈 芯锌懈褋邪屑懈 褌邪 褋锌褉芯斜邪屑懈 锌芯斜褍写褍胁邪褌懈 胁蟹邪褦屑芯胁褨写薪芯褋懈薪懈 屑褨卸 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸邪屑懈. 袙懈谐谢褟写邪褦 写芯褋褨 薪械写芯褋褌邪褌薪褜芯 褋褌胁械褉写薪芯, 褖芯斜 谐械褉芯褩 褋褌邪谢懈 卸懈胁懈屑懈, 锌褉芯褌械, 褑械 胁卸械 薪械 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 薪邪褩胁薪芯 写懈褌褟褔褨 褌械泻褋褌懈.
袩褉芯 锌芯胁褌芯褉褞胁邪薪褨褋褌褜 褋褞卸械褌褨胁 褌褍褌 谐芯写褨 褖芯褋褜 泻邪蟹邪褌懈, 褑械 屑邪泄卸械 泻芯卸械薪 褔懈褌邪褔 锌芯屑褨褔邪褦.
效械褋薪芯 泻邪卸褍褔懈, 薪邪胁褨褌褜 薪械 蟹薪邪褞, 泻芯屑褍 屑芯卸薪邪 褉邪写懈褌懈 褑褞 蟹斜褨褉泻褍. 些芯 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈褔薪邪, 褖芯 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪褨 褋泻谢邪写芯胁褨 - 褋谢邪斜泻褨. 袧邪锌械胁薪械, 褌褍褌 屑芯卸械 蟹褨谐褉邪褌懈 械褎械泻褌 薪芯褋褌邪谢褜谐褨褩 胁 谢褞写械泄, 褟泻褨 褔懈褌邪谢懈 褖芯褋褜 锌芯写褨斜薪械 胁 褞薪褨 褉芯泻懈.
袩械褉褕褨 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪薪褟 泻芯褉芯褌泻褨, 胁 褟泻懈褏 邪胁褌芯褉, 谐褉褍斜芯 邪谢械 写懈薪邪屑褨褔薪芯, 薪邪屑邪谐邪褦褌褜褋褟 锌械褉械写邪褌懈 褋胁芯褞 褨写械褞. 袩械褉褋芯薪邪卸褨 锌谢芯褋泻褨, 褋谢褍谐褍褞褌褜 褋褍褌芯 褟泻 械谢械屑械薪褌 褉褍褏褍 褋褞卸械褌褍. 袙卸械 锌褨蟹薪褨褕褨 锌褉邪褑褨 芯斜褉芯褋褌邪褞褌褜 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪懈屑 褎邪泻褌邪卸械屑 (邪谢械 褨 胁褨薪 薪械 薪邪写褌芯 薪邪写褨泄薪懈泄), 蟹 写械褌邪谢褜薪懈屑懈 芯锌懈褋邪屑懈 褌邪 褋锌褉芯斜邪屑懈 锌芯斜褍写褍胁邪褌懈 胁蟹邪褦屑芯胁褨写薪芯褋懈薪懈 屑褨卸 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸邪屑懈. 袙懈谐谢褟写邪褦 写芯褋褨 薪械写芯褋褌邪褌薪褜芯 褋褌胁械褉写薪芯, 褖芯斜 谐械褉芯褩 褋褌邪谢懈 卸懈胁懈屑懈, 锌褉芯褌械, 褑械 胁卸械 薪械 薪邪褋褌褨谢褜泻懈 薪邪褩胁薪芯 写懈褌褟褔褨 褌械泻褋褌懈.
袩褉芯 锌芯胁褌芯褉褞胁邪薪褨褋褌褜 褋褞卸械褌褨胁 褌褍褌 谐芯写褨 褖芯褋褜 泻邪蟹邪褌懈, 褑械 屑邪泄卸械 泻芯卸械薪 褔懈褌邪褔 锌芯屑褨褔邪褦.
效械褋薪芯 泻邪卸褍褔懈, 薪邪胁褨褌褜 薪械 蟹薪邪褞, 泻芯屑褍 屑芯卸薪邪 褉邪写懈褌懈 褑褞 蟹斜褨褉泻褍. 些芯 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈褔薪邪, 褖芯 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪褨 褋泻谢邪写芯胁褨 - 褋谢邪斜泻褨. 袧邪锌械胁薪械, 褌褍褌 屑芯卸械 蟹褨谐褉邪褌懈 械褎械泻褌 薪芯褋褌邪谢褜谐褨褩 胁 谢褞写械泄, 褟泻褨 褔懈褌邪谢懈 褖芯褋褜 锌芯写褨斜薪械 胁 褞薪褨 褉芯泻懈.
August 12, 2017
-Cerca de lo kitsch, sin serlo, respecto al g茅nero pero llamativo en cuanto a los cambios de l铆nea temporal sobre los que trabaja.-
G茅nero. Ciencia ficci贸n.
Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro La patrulla del tiempo (publicaci贸n original: The Time Patrol, 1991) conoceremos a Manse Everard, un agente de la Patrulla del Tiempo, organizaci贸n que se encarga de velar por la protecci贸n y regulaci贸n del viaje en el tiempo, asegurando que no tengan lugar influencias que puedan cambiar el curso deseado de la historia, pero el deseado por los danelianos, la evoluci贸n futura del ser humano. Seremos testigos de su reclutamiento, formaci贸n en la Academia y le seguiremos (a 茅l y a otros) en varias de sus misiones que nos llevar谩n a la Persia de Ciro, a detener a los exploradores mongoles en Am茅rica del Norte, a la Britannia postromana, a conocer las consecuencias de un final diferente de la Segunda Guerra P煤nica, a una Tiro bajo amenaza, al Londres del Blitz y al Per煤 de los Incas, entre otros lugares (y tiempos). Recopilaci贸n en un 煤nico volumen de diferentes relatos y novelas cortas al respecto que fueron escritas entre 1955 y 1991.
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G茅nero. Ciencia ficci贸n.
Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro La patrulla del tiempo (publicaci贸n original: The Time Patrol, 1991) conoceremos a Manse Everard, un agente de la Patrulla del Tiempo, organizaci贸n que se encarga de velar por la protecci贸n y regulaci贸n del viaje en el tiempo, asegurando que no tengan lugar influencias que puedan cambiar el curso deseado de la historia, pero el deseado por los danelianos, la evoluci贸n futura del ser humano. Seremos testigos de su reclutamiento, formaci贸n en la Academia y le seguiremos (a 茅l y a otros) en varias de sus misiones que nos llevar谩n a la Persia de Ciro, a detener a los exploradores mongoles en Am茅rica del Norte, a la Britannia postromana, a conocer las consecuencias de un final diferente de la Segunda Guerra P煤nica, a una Tiro bajo amenaza, al Londres del Blitz y al Per煤 de los Incas, entre otros lugares (y tiempos). Recopilaci贸n en un 煤nico volumen de diferentes relatos y novelas cortas al respecto que fueron escritas entre 1955 y 1991.
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March 20, 2020
Si te gusta la serie 鈥楨l Ministerio del Tiempo鈥�, aqu铆 est谩 el precedente en que se basa, una colecci贸n de relatos publicada primero en los a帽os 60 y algunos a帽adidos posteriormente en los a帽os 80.
El patrullero Mance Everard es contratado como parte de una organizaci贸n cuyo objetivo es impedir que hechos del pasado lleguen a alterar la realidad presente.
Sin las limitaciones del formato televisivo, el autor trota libre por los campos de la historia y tan pronto nos lleva al Pleistoceno como a las fronteras de Roma asediada por los b谩rbaros. Vikingos, godos, germanos, conquistadores espa帽oles, la Jerusal茅n de David y Salom贸n, estos relatos nos conducen por momentos cruciales de la historia con el hilo conductor del protagonista.
Es un cl谩sico indiscutible de la ciencia ficci贸n, que en muchos momentos se acerca m谩s a la novela hist贸rica, imaginando escenarios apasionantes y variados.
El patrullero Mance Everard es contratado como parte de una organizaci贸n cuyo objetivo es impedir que hechos del pasado lleguen a alterar la realidad presente.
Sin las limitaciones del formato televisivo, el autor trota libre por los campos de la historia y tan pronto nos lleva al Pleistoceno como a las fronteras de Roma asediada por los b谩rbaros. Vikingos, godos, germanos, conquistadores espa帽oles, la Jerusal茅n de David y Salom贸n, estos relatos nos conducen por momentos cruciales de la historia con el hilo conductor del protagonista.
Es un cl谩sico indiscutible de la ciencia ficci贸n, que en muchos momentos se acerca m谩s a la novela hist贸rica, imaginando escenarios apasionantes y variados.
November 25, 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 , and it is one of my favorite Anderson novels, after . The other ("The Falls of Gibraltar") I have now read for the first time. This, the shortest story, is proof that Anderson was keeping up with scientific matters, as the discovery of the Zanclian flood dates back to 1972, and this story dates from 1975.
The following two stories were collected in another book (), which I have read twice in English and liked less, so this time I have skipped them.
The last three stories are the most recent, for they were published between 1988 and 1995. I liked one of them: "The year of the ransom," about the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
ESPA脩OL: Este libro recopila todas las historias de los guardianes del tiempo menos una. Cuatro de las cinco primeras las hab铆a le铆do varias veces en traducci贸n al holand茅s del libro , y es una de mis novelas favoritas de Anderson, aunque despu茅s de . La otra ("Las cataratas de Gibraltar") la he le铆do ahora por primera vez. Este cuento, el m谩s corto de todos, es la prueba de que Anderson se manten铆a al d铆a en cuestiones cient铆ficas, porque el descubrimiento de la inundaci贸n zancliense se remonta a 1972, y este cuento data de 1975.
Las dos historias siguientes fueron recopiladas en otro libro () que he le铆do dos veces en ingl茅s y que me gust贸 menos, por lo que esta vez me las he saltado.
Las tres 煤ltimas historias son las m谩s recientes, pues fueron publicadas entre 1988 y 1995. Me gust贸 una de ellas: "El a帽o del rescate", sobre la conquista espa帽ola del Imperio Inca.
The following two stories were collected in another book (), which I have read twice in English and liked less, so this time I have skipped them.
The last three stories are the most recent, for they were published between 1988 and 1995. I liked one of them: "The year of the ransom," about the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
ESPA脩OL: Este libro recopila todas las historias de los guardianes del tiempo menos una. Cuatro de las cinco primeras las hab铆a le铆do varias veces en traducci贸n al holand茅s del libro , y es una de mis novelas favoritas de Anderson, aunque despu茅s de . La otra ("Las cataratas de Gibraltar") la he le铆do ahora por primera vez. Este cuento, el m谩s corto de todos, es la prueba de que Anderson se manten铆a al d铆a en cuestiones cient铆ficas, porque el descubrimiento de la inundaci贸n zancliense se remonta a 1972, y este cuento data de 1975.
Las dos historias siguientes fueron recopiladas en otro libro () que he le铆do dos veces en ingl茅s y que me gust贸 menos, por lo que esta vez me las he saltado.
Las tres 煤ltimas historias son las m谩s recientes, pues fueron publicadas entre 1988 y 1995. Me gust贸 una de ellas: "El a帽o del rescate", sobre la conquista espa帽ola del Imperio Inca.
August 15, 2016
Esta antolog铆a es un libro imprescindible para cualquier amante de la ciencia ficci贸n y sobre todo, de la historia. Lo m谩s destacado de 茅l no es su protagonista, que es un estereotipo m谩s, sino su base hist贸rica. Cuando leemos o vemos narraciones sobre viajes en el tiempo, siempre suelen tocar relatos sobre personajes tan conocidos como Julio C茅sar o Col贸n y 茅pocas como la Inglaterra Victoriana o la Guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos, por eso me ha llamado la atenci贸n que
June 10, 2012
As with any body of work spanning nearly 50 years, Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories start with some sense of feeling dated, but grow deeper and deeper with each reading. This is my fourth or fifth reading of some of the stories, and I still like them as much as ever!
August 2, 2010
Collected herein are the nine stories -- one is of short-novel length and most of the rest are novelettes/novellas -- in Anderson's famous series; missing is the 1990 novel The Shield of Time, but this is already a very long book:听458 pages may not seem so much, but the pages are large and the type is small, and a lot of the prose is pretty soporific, lurching haphazardly between a sort of relentless drab utilitarianism, an affected cod-epic poesy, and a clumsy impressionism. I recall reading some of this material in the very much earlier (and shorter) collection听Guardians of Time (1960), 'way 'way 'way back when, but, though I recall it being surprisingly dull -- for this reader at least, it's quite difficult to make a time-travel story dull -- I don't recall the writing being quite so rotten. Maybe part of the dullness is that, while Anderson gives us great slodges of political and military history, there's almost zero evocation of the various ages in which the stories are set. Since there's no real sensawunda either -- the time cops ride around on their sort-of-motorbikes in a very business-as-usual way -- and since it's difficult to care too much about the fates of characters who are, with very rare exceptions, little more than named cyphers . . . well, I kept glancing at the copy of Robert Cowley's The Collected What If? (2005) on my shelves and wondering if I'd have more fun reading that instead.
What of the stories themselves? "Time Patrol" (1955) is not much more than a sort of setter-upper for the series. In the mid-20th century Manse Everard answers a job ad and gets hired as a time cop. Time travel will be invented centuries in the future; untold centuries beyond that mankind has evolved into a species called the Danellians, who persuaded the early time travellers to set up the Time Patrol with the aim of protecting all of time from any alteration by interfering temponauts that might risk the Danellians' existence. Manse's first mission is to go back to the late 19th century to correct the circumstances that led to the appearance of an anachronistic item in an old burial mound; the case has baffled even Sherlock Holmes (unnamed, but clearly identified through description). It's easy to get the impression that Anderson's initial aim was to make Everard a sort of time-travelling Holmes -- he gives him the pipe to go with the role -- but changed his mind. As it is,听all through the series of tales there are offhand references to matters Holmesian. Manse earns the right to be an Unattached Agent of the Patrol: rather than being limited to any particular era, he can roam the timeways at will and with a considerable degree of autonomy.
The second tale, "Brave to Be a King" (1959), is easily the best. A Time Patrol friend of Manse's, Keith, has gone missing in 6th-century Iran, and Keith's wife begs Manse to go find him. Trouble is, Manse has always had the serious hots for the wife, despite her somewhat whiny voice, so it's very tempting not to try very hard -- to assume that Keith has landed on his feet and is happy where he is, sort of thing. But his honourable self knows better. He discovers Keith has been forced to adopt the persona of Cyrus the Great; rescuing him while preserving the course of history proves to be a far more tortuous business than one might imagine. What makes this story so good is that two of the characters -- Keith and his 20th-century wife Cynthia -- are actual characters, and for once Anderson has sufficient understanding of them that, rather than make their reunion at story's end a joyous affair, he shows Keith having second thoughts and more about having given up a life of constant challenge and a wife who was a true companion (not to mention the harem of which she was a part) in order to spend the rest of his days in a cramped Manhattan apartment with ghastly decor and a wife with a whiny voice.
"Gibraltar Falls" (1975) is the shortest piece in the book, and the worst. Anderson wanted to show us what must have been the most remarkable spectacle of known prehistory, the collapse of the isthmus at the Gates of Hercules and the inundation听of the basin that is now the Mediterranean Sea by the waters of the Atlantic, but didn't really bother constructing a听story to go with it. In "The Only Game in Town" (1960) Manse and a friend manage to head off the Chinese colonization, pre-Columbus, of the Americas. In "Delenda Est" (1955), another fairly good entry, Manse and a friend return from a holiday in the Pleistocene to their own time, only to discover it considerably changed; clearly there's been an unauthorized change to history. Eventually they trace it to an incident during the Punic Wars, which incident made it possible for Hannibal to defeat Rome. They succeed in reversing the change, but know that in so doing they're wiping out all the people they've befriended in the alternative 1950s. They succeed, though, in saving the laughing-eyed Hoirish colleen whom Manse's friend has fallen for.
"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" (1983) is set in Tyre during the time of Solomon and Hiram and sees the introduction of the Exaltationists, the 23rd-century cult whose obsessive pursuit of hedonism renders them unimpressed by the effects their vicious power-and pleasure-seeking could do to the timestream, including the possibility of their wiping the听existence of their own culture out of history. The story is held together by the character of Pummairam, a youth who takes Manse under his wing when first the patrolman arrives in Tyre, and who engineers much of the tricksterism Manse must use to thwart the baddies. In "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" (1983) Manse for once takes something of a back seat. Here a history prof, Carl Farness, has allowed himself to become the personification of the god Odin to a 4th-century tribe of Goths; he has also allowed himself to become far too personally involved with the people whom he's there to study, marrying one of them (with the knowledge of his 20th-century wife) and keeping an eye on the usually somewhat messy fates of his children, grandchildren, etc. Manse gets involved because incarnations of gods are the kind of thing that cause history to be altered; in fact, as Carl points out, all kinds of Goth tribes were convinced they'd been visited by various deities, and their stories were usually quickly dismissed as myths, then forgotten. Still, he must extract himself from the situation with care.
"Star of the Sea" is, I suppose, technically a short novel, but there have been plenty of stories published as full-length novels that have been shorter than this. (Certainly seemed so, anyway . . .) Europe in the 1st century, and various peoples, led by the likes of Civilis, are rebelling against corrupt Roman rule -- with the violence continuing even after it becomes clear that an honourable peace could be struck. A major factor keeping them at war is the zeal of a visionary/prophetess called Veleda, who for reasons unknown has had a far greater and longer influence in a revealed timeline than she had in the known history of the period. Manse and a historian called Floris, who becomes his first real love, manage to sort out the situation.
Finally, The Year of the Ransom (1988), published originally as a standalone illustrated volume, is a prequel to The Shield of Time, featuring, as well as Manse, that novel's heroine Wanda Tamberley. Here her Uncle Steve, living among Pizarro's brutal conquistadors at the time of the ransoming of Atahuallpa, is attacked by the Exaltationists and then abducted into a very distant past by a quick-witted Spanish soldier who believes him to be a demon. Manse and Wanda to the rescue, of course.
At an early moment in the story "Time Patrol" Anderson casually sideswipes the pretensions of Heinlein's "All You Zombies" and Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself: "You could not be your own mother, for instance, because of sheer genetics. If you went back and married your former father, the children would be different, none of them you, because each would have only half your chromosomes" (p7). And there are some moderately elegant avoidances of time-paradox issues:
In the case of a missing man, you were not required to search for him just because a record somewhere said you had done so. But how else could you stand a chance of finding him? You might possibly go back and thereby change events so that you did find him after all -- in which case the report you filed would "always" have recorded your success, and you alone would know the "former" truth. It could get very messed up. No wonder the Patrol was fussy, even about small changes which would not affect the main pattern. (p38)
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 came near failing. Only the energy and genius of Lenin pulled it through. What if you traveled to the nineteenth century and quietly, harmlessly prevented Lenin's parents from ever meeting each other? Whatever else the Russian Empire later became, it would not be the Soviet Union, and the consequences of that would pervade all history afterward. You, pastward of the change, would still be there; but returning futureward, you'd find a totally different world, a world in which you yourself were probably never born. You'd exist, but as an effect without a cause, thrown up into existence by that anarchy which is at [time's:] foundation. (p420)
And some that are, er, less elegant:
Don't ask me why they weren't "always" wiped out; why this is the first time we came back from the far past to find a changed future. I don't understand the mutable-time paradoxes. We just did, that's all. (p113)
Among my favourite phrases were these:
Everard finished a night's sleep and a breakfast which Deirdre's eyes had made miserable by standing on deck as they came in to the private pier. ("Delenda Est")
The floor had been given a deep-blue covering that responded slightly to footfalls, like living muscles. (The Year of the Ransom)
An ongoing irritation with the text, aside from the problems I have with the writing style, as mentioned above, is a frequent palavering about the difficulty the English language, like all other ordinary languages, has with the tenses required to talk about events along timelines -- like those of era-hopping Time Patrollers -- that don't match the world's standard timeline. Often enough someone will interrupt their own narrative to bewail the difficulty they're having expressing past and future in English, and what a good thing it is that the Time Patrollers' own invented language, "Temporal", has extra tenses to deal with this sort of stuff. The trouble is, it's baloney: yes, occasionally writers of time-travel stories have to choose their words carefully, but it isn't a major problem, and in a milieu where time travel was common listeners would have even less difficulty understanding what was going on. And, just to cope with those rare cases where there might be difficulties of comprehension, people would soon enough invent ways of getting around them -- in effect, would introduce those new tenses to their native tongue. They wouldn't have to learn a whole new blasted language to deal with the problem. (Of course, there are other good reason why Time Patrollers from different cultures and eras should have a common language to use; my point is that the tenses problem isn't one of those reasons, yet Anderson is tiresomely insistent that it is.)
I'd initially planned to read The Shield of Time immediately after this book, but in the event I couldn't face it. I decided to have a break from Anderson for a while. My deadline for this essay is fast approaching, though, so I can't put off The Shield of Time too much longer. Gulp.
May 27, 2020
Will review at .
June 27, 2016
2.5/5.0
February 27, 2021
孝械 胁褨写褔褍褌褌褟, 泻芯谢懈 蟹 褑褨褦褩 泻薪懈谐懈 写褨蟹薪邪褦褕褋褟 锌褉芯 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪褨 锌芯写褨褩 斜褨谢褜褕械, 薪褨卸 蟹邪 褉芯泻懈 薪邪胁褔邪薪薪褟... 薪械 斜褍写褍 泻邪蟹邪褌懈 写械馃樇
July 14, 2021
小屑邪褔薪懈泄 袧肖, 褨褋褌芯褉懈泻芯-锌褉懈谐芯写薪懈褑褜泻懈泄 斜芯褉褖. 袚褍褋褌芯, 锌褨蟹薪邪胁邪谢褜薪芯, 褌褉芯褏懈 芯写薪芯褌懈锌薪芯 蟹邪 褋褞卸械褌芯屑. 效懈褌邪褌懈 蟹 锌械褉械褉胁邪屑懈. 袆写懈薪懈泄 薪械写芯谢褨泻 - 褋褍锌械褉 芯斜泻谢邪写懈薪泻邪. 袧械 谢褞斜谢褞 褩褏
February 20, 2015
-Cerca de lo kitsch, sin serlo, respecto al g茅nero pero llamativo en cuanto a los cambios de l铆nea temporal sobre los que trabaja.-
G茅nero. Ciencia-Ficci贸n.
Lo que nos cuenta. Manse Everard es un agente de la Patrulla del Tiempo, organizaci贸n que se encarga de velar por la protecci贸n y regulaci贸n del viaje en el tiempo, asegurando que no tengan lugar influencias que puedan cambiar el curso deseado de la Historia, pero el deseado por los danelianos, la evoluci贸n futura del ser humano. Seremos testigos de su reclutamiento, formaci贸n en la Academia y le seguiremos (a 茅l y a otros) en varias de sus misiones que nos llevar谩n a la Persia de Ciro, a detener a los exploradores mongoles en Am茅rica del Norte, a la Britannia postromana, a conocer las consecuencias de un final diferente de la Segunda Guerra P煤nica, a una Tiro bajo amenaza, al Londres del Blitz y al Per煤 de los Incas, entre otros lugares (y tiempos). Recopilaci贸n en un 煤nico volumen de diferentes relatos y novelas cortas al respecto que fueron escritas entre 1955 y 1991.
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G茅nero. Ciencia-Ficci贸n.
Lo que nos cuenta. Manse Everard es un agente de la Patrulla del Tiempo, organizaci贸n que se encarga de velar por la protecci贸n y regulaci贸n del viaje en el tiempo, asegurando que no tengan lugar influencias que puedan cambiar el curso deseado de la Historia, pero el deseado por los danelianos, la evoluci贸n futura del ser humano. Seremos testigos de su reclutamiento, formaci贸n en la Academia y le seguiremos (a 茅l y a otros) en varias de sus misiones que nos llevar谩n a la Persia de Ciro, a detener a los exploradores mongoles en Am茅rica del Norte, a la Britannia postromana, a conocer las consecuencias de un final diferente de la Segunda Guerra P煤nica, a una Tiro bajo amenaza, al Londres del Blitz y al Per煤 de los Incas, entre otros lugares (y tiempos). Recopilaci贸n en un 煤nico volumen de diferentes relatos y novelas cortas al respecto que fueron escritas entre 1955 y 1991.
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June 15, 2017
Una sola estrella por ser un ladrillo insufrible de 700 p谩ginas.
September 13, 2021
Una colecci贸n de historias muy entretenida sobre viajes en el tiempo, salvo el de Estrella de Mar, que se me hizo un poco pesado, el resto me han gustado mucho, y han envejecido bastante bien.
February 26, 2013
Originally published on my blog in May 2006.
The Time Patrol stories of Poul Anderson are classics of the science fiction genre, dealing with the efforts of the eponymous group to maintain the status quo of history against the accidental or deliberate manipulations of other time travellers. This book, sharing the name of the original story which began the series, collects them all (and it is not to be confused with an earlier volume, also called Time Patrol, which contains only the first two or three stories).
The central character in the stories is Time Patrol agent Manse Everard, who is "unattached" - basically, a troubleshooter who can visit any time and place in order to sort out serious problems. (Most Time Patrol agents work in a single milieu, either as researchers studying the period or as officials regulating the activities of time travellers.) Apart from the first story, which is about Everard's recruitment, the basic plot of the remaining stories is simple and consistent: some problem requires Everard's intervention at a particular time and date.
Though the stories were written over a period of five decades and though they vary wildly in length (between about 30 and 160 pages, as reprinted here), they are very similar to each other. Anderson doesn't quite make the different periods and locations all that distinct (though having several stories set just outside the borders of the Roman Empire doesn't really help with this). Everard also remains pretty much the same through the series, maybe a little more world-weary, but basically an action hero. Like many long running series of self-contained stories, the Time Patrol tales work better in relatively small doses rather than by reading them all the way through in one volume.
Given these obvious flaws, why is Time Patrol worth reading, and why are the stories important in the development of the genre? For one thing, there is one story in the series which really stands out, which would be a classic of the genre even without the rest. Delenda Est has Everard returning from a vacation on a base in the prehistoric past to his own time (the mid twentieth century) only to discover that everything has changed. In what is effectively a parallel world, he has to work out what pivotal event has been altered, and then decide if he is morally able to destroy an entire new civilization in order to bring back his own familiar time line (or alternatively destroy the lives of all those living in his own timeline to save the new future). This single story is one of the best of all those ever written about time travel.
For the other stories, the point of this series is really the introduction of adventure to time travel, and particularly to stories involving time travel paradoxes. The fates of nations, of the godlike Danellians from Earth's far future (the beings who set up the patrol to preserve their existence) rest on Everard's capable shoulders: he is a hero who can think as well as act. In the original time travel story, Wells' , the use of time travel is to be a mechanism allowing the main character to see the far future (which is, of course, at least partly a reflection on Wells' present); the machine itself has very little part to play in the story. It is like the visions in , or the mental link to the future in : the point is the vision itself, not the mechanism by which it becomes available to the protagonist. Stories of time travel to the future tend to be like this in tone, and it is perhaps the introduction of the possibility of paradox with travel to the past which makes the idea work better as the background of a thriller. (The actual introduction of the famous grandfather paradox came as late as 1947, and even then in stories unlikely to be read by the mainstream English language science fiction fan: French genre fiction, with the exception of , is still considered pretty obscure.) Anderson joined other American writers of his time such as Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov in bringing adventure to mainstream time travel fiction ( and are approximately contemporary with the earliest Time Patrol stories); Anderson's stories are the most epic of these as adventures.
Delenda Est is a must read for any science fiction fan. The rest are interesting in small enough doses, though a bit too similar to each other to make the omnibus a pleasure. So I would recommend seeking out other collections which contain one or more of the stories along with others, rather than investing in the omnibus.
The Time Patrol stories of Poul Anderson are classics of the science fiction genre, dealing with the efforts of the eponymous group to maintain the status quo of history against the accidental or deliberate manipulations of other time travellers. This book, sharing the name of the original story which began the series, collects them all (and it is not to be confused with an earlier volume, also called Time Patrol, which contains only the first two or three stories).
The central character in the stories is Time Patrol agent Manse Everard, who is "unattached" - basically, a troubleshooter who can visit any time and place in order to sort out serious problems. (Most Time Patrol agents work in a single milieu, either as researchers studying the period or as officials regulating the activities of time travellers.) Apart from the first story, which is about Everard's recruitment, the basic plot of the remaining stories is simple and consistent: some problem requires Everard's intervention at a particular time and date.
Though the stories were written over a period of five decades and though they vary wildly in length (between about 30 and 160 pages, as reprinted here), they are very similar to each other. Anderson doesn't quite make the different periods and locations all that distinct (though having several stories set just outside the borders of the Roman Empire doesn't really help with this). Everard also remains pretty much the same through the series, maybe a little more world-weary, but basically an action hero. Like many long running series of self-contained stories, the Time Patrol tales work better in relatively small doses rather than by reading them all the way through in one volume.
Given these obvious flaws, why is Time Patrol worth reading, and why are the stories important in the development of the genre? For one thing, there is one story in the series which really stands out, which would be a classic of the genre even without the rest. Delenda Est has Everard returning from a vacation on a base in the prehistoric past to his own time (the mid twentieth century) only to discover that everything has changed. In what is effectively a parallel world, he has to work out what pivotal event has been altered, and then decide if he is morally able to destroy an entire new civilization in order to bring back his own familiar time line (or alternatively destroy the lives of all those living in his own timeline to save the new future). This single story is one of the best of all those ever written about time travel.
For the other stories, the point of this series is really the introduction of adventure to time travel, and particularly to stories involving time travel paradoxes. The fates of nations, of the godlike Danellians from Earth's far future (the beings who set up the patrol to preserve their existence) rest on Everard's capable shoulders: he is a hero who can think as well as act. In the original time travel story, Wells' , the use of time travel is to be a mechanism allowing the main character to see the far future (which is, of course, at least partly a reflection on Wells' present); the machine itself has very little part to play in the story. It is like the visions in , or the mental link to the future in : the point is the vision itself, not the mechanism by which it becomes available to the protagonist. Stories of time travel to the future tend to be like this in tone, and it is perhaps the introduction of the possibility of paradox with travel to the past which makes the idea work better as the background of a thriller. (The actual introduction of the famous grandfather paradox came as late as 1947, and even then in stories unlikely to be read by the mainstream English language science fiction fan: French genre fiction, with the exception of , is still considered pretty obscure.) Anderson joined other American writers of his time such as Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov in bringing adventure to mainstream time travel fiction ( and are approximately contemporary with the earliest Time Patrol stories); Anderson's stories are the most epic of these as adventures.
Delenda Est is a must read for any science fiction fan. The rest are interesting in small enough doses, though a bit too similar to each other to make the omnibus a pleasure. So I would recommend seeking out other collections which contain one or more of the stories along with others, rather than investing in the omnibus.
September 17, 2022
袉褋褌芯褉懈褔薪邪 薪邪褍泻芯胁邪 褎邪薪褌邪褋褌懈泻邪 锌褉芯 邪谢褜褌械褉薪邪褌懈胁薪褨 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 褨 锌芯写芯褉芯卸褨 褍 褔邪褋褨. 袣芯谢懈褋褜 褑械 斜褍谢芯 蟹邪褏芯锌谢褞褞褔芯褞 锌褉懈谐芯写芯褞 写谢褟 袉谐芯褉褟 褍 12-14 褉芯泻褨胁. 袟邪褉邪蟹 褔懈褌邪褌懈 胁邪卸泻芯 斜械蟹 谐褍屑芯褉褍, 斜芯 斜邪谐邪褌芯 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪懈褏 谢褟锌褨胁)) 邪谢械 锌芯褋褌邪胁谢褞 薪邪 褋褌邪褉懈褏 褋邪薪褌懈屑械薪褌邪褏 4/5
May 9, 2021
袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 效邪褋褍-蟹斜褨褉薪懈泻 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪褜, 褟泻褨 芯斜褦写薪邪薪褨 褦写懈薪懈屑 褋褞卸械褌芯屑 锌褉芯 谢褞写械泄, 褟泻褨 褟泻 褑械 薪械 斜褍谢芯 斜 芯褔械胁懈写薪芯, 锌邪褌褉褍谢褞褞褌褜 褔邪褋 褨 屑芯卸谢懈胁褨 薪邪褋谢褨写泻懈 蟹屑褨薪懈 锌芯写褨泄. 袣薪懈谐邪 锌械褉械薪芯褋懈褌褜 褍 褉褨蟹薪褨 械锌芯褏懈-袪懈屑褋褜泻邪 褨屑锌械褉褨褟, 锌械褉褨芯写 谐芯褌褨胁 薪邪 褌械褉懈褌芯褉褨褩 校泻褉邪褩薪懈, 袙邪胁懈谢芯薪, 蟹邪胁芯褞胁邪薪薪褟 袗屑械褉懈泻懈 泻芯薪泻褨褋褌邪写芯褉邪屑懈... 袩芯锌褉懈 写芯褋懈褌褜 泻谢邪褋薪懈泄 芯锌懈褋 械锌芯褏, 邪胁褌芯褉 泻芯薪褑械薪褌褉褍褦褌褜褋褟 薪邪 谢褞写褟褏, 褩褏 胁褔懈薪泻邪褏;褉芯蟹褍屑褨薪薪褨, 褖芯 薪械屑邪 写芯斜褉芯谐芯/锌芯谐邪薪芯谐芯 胁懈斜芯褉褍,邪 锌褉芯褋褌芯 褦 胁褔懈薪泻懈 褟泻褨 锌芯褌褉褨斜薪芯 蟹褉芯斜懈褌懈
February 20, 2022
袥褞斜谢褞 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 锌褉芯 屑邪薪写褉懈 胁 褔邪褋褨, 邪 褌芯屑褍 泻芯卸薪芯谐芯 褉邪蟹褍 锌褨写褏芯写卸褍 写芯 薪懈褏 褨蟹 锌械褉械褋褌芯褉芯谐芯褞: 邪薪褍 卸 斜褍写械 褉芯蟹褔邪褉褍胁邪薪薪褟? 孝懈屑 锌邪褔械 褋械褉褨褟 锌褉芯 袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍 锌芯褔邪谢邪褋褟 屑邪泄卸械 70 褉芯泻褨胁 褌芯屑褍, 胁褨写褌芯写褨 斜褍谢芯 胁卸械 斜邪谐邪褌芯 胁褋褟泻芯谐芯-褉褨蟹薪芯谐芯, 屑芯卸械 斜褍褌懈 锌褉芯褋褌芯 薪械 褑褨泻邪胁芯.
袗谢械 褑褜芯谐芯 褉邪蟹褍 锌芯斜芯褞胁邪薪薪褟 斜褍谢懈 屑邪褉薪褨.
袩械褉械写褍褋褨屑 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢邪褋褜 褋邪屑邪 泻芯薪褑械锌褑褨褟 屑邪薪写褉褨胁 褍 褔邪褋褨, 褟泻邪 蟹邪谐邪谢芯屑 写芯胁芯谢褨 斜谢懈蟹褜泻邪 写芯 褌芯褩, 褖芯 胁懈泻芯褉懈褋褌芯胁褍褦褌褜褋褟 褍 袛芯泻褌芯褉褨 啸褌芯 (褑褨泻邪胁芯, 褔懈 泄芯谐芯 褌胁芯褉褑褨 薪邪写懈褏邪谢懈褋褟 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪芯屑). 小褍褌褜 褌邪泻邪: 写褉褨斜薪褨 蟹屑褨薪懈 胁 屑懈薪褍谢芯屑褍 薪械 胁锌谢懈薪褍褌褜 薪邪 屑邪泄斜褍褌薪褦 - 褌泻邪薪懈薪邪 褔邪褋褍 褋邪屑邪 胁懈褉褨胁薪褟褦褌褜褋褟, 褟泻 锌褉褍卸懈薪邪. 袧邪胁褨褌褜 褟泻褖芯 胁斜懈褌懈 褋胁芯谐芯 锌褉邪褖褍褉邪, 褌芯 胁褋械 芯写薪芯 薪邪褉芯写懈褕褋褟, 锌褉芯褋褌芯 褌胁褨泄 谐械薪芯屑 蟹斜械褉械褌褜褋褟 蟹 褨薪褕懈褏 胁褨写褌懈薪泻褨胁 袛袧袣. 袨写薪邪泻 写械褟泻褨 屑芯屑械薪褌懈 蟹屑褨薪褞胁邪褌懈 薪械 屑芯卸薪邪. 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 褑械 薪邪蟹懈胁邪褦 芦胁褍蟹谢芯胁褨 屑芯屑械薪褌懈禄, 袛芯泻褌芯褉 啸褌芯 鈥� 芦褎褨泻褋芯胁邪薪褨 褌芯褔泻懈禄.
袟 袛芯泻褌芯褉芯屑 啸褌芯 袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍 锌芯褦写薪褍褦 薪械 褌褨谢褜泻懈 屑械褏邪薪褨泻邪, 邪谢械 泄 锌褉懈蟹薪邪褔械薪薪褟 锌芯写芯褉芯卸械泄 胁 褔邪褋褨: 写芯褋谢褨写卸械薪薪褟 屑懈薪褍谢芯谐芯 褨 薪邪屑邪谐邪薪薪褟 蟹邪褏懈褋褌懈褌懈 泄芯谐芯 胁褨写 褌懈褏, 褏褌芯 锌褉邪谐薪械 胁褌褉褍褌懈褌懈褋褜. 袉 褑械, 胁谢邪褋薪械, 写褉褍谐懈泄 胁邪卸谢懈胁懈泄 锌谢褞褋 褑懈泻谢褍. 袙褉邪褏芯胁褍褞褔懈, 褖芯 泄写械褌褜褋褟 锌褉芯 胁懈褋芯泻褨 褌械褏薪芯谢芯谐褨褩, 谢械谐泻芯 斜褍谢芯 斜 褋泻芯褉懈褌懈褋褟 褋锌芯泻褍褋褨 褨 锌械褉械薪械褋褌懈 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸褨胁 褍 褟泻械褋褜 屑邪泄斜褍褌薪褦. 袗谢械 斜褨写邪 屑邪泄斜褍褌薪褜芯谐芯 褍 褌芯屑褍, 褖芯 薪褨褏褌芯 泄芯谐芯 薪邪褋锌褉邪胁写褨 薪械 蟹薪邪褦, 褨 褦 锌械胁薪懈泄 褋屑褍褌芯泻 胁褨写 褌芯谐芯, 褖芯 2015 褉褨泻 胁卸械 写邪胁薪芯 屑懈薪褍胁, 邪 胁 薪邪褋 写芯褋褨 薪械屑邪 邪薪褨 谢械褌褞褔懈褏 邪胁褌褨胁芯泻, 邪薪褨 褋邪屑芯褕薪褍褉褍胁邪谢褜薪懈褏 褔械褉械胁懈泻褨胁. 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 褑械 褉芯蟹褍屑褨褦, 褌芯屑褍 蟹芯褋械褉械写卸褍褦褌褜褋褟 薪邪 屑懈薪褍谢芯屑褍 - 邪 褌邪屑 卸械 褨 褋锌褉邪胁写褨 褦, 褖芯 锌芯写芯褋谢褨写卸褍胁邪褌懈.
袉 褦, 写械 薪邪褉芯斜懈褌懈 锌芯屑懈谢芯泻. 袧械 蟹 褌芯褔泻懈 蟹芯褉褍 邪胁褌芯褉邪, 屑邪褞 薪邪 褍胁邪蟹褨, 邪 蟹 褌芯褔泻懈 蟹芯褉褍 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸褨胁. 袗写卸械, 薪邪屑邪谐邪褞褔懈褋褜 胁懈锌褉邪胁懈褌懈 锌芯屑懈谢泻懈 胁 屑懈薪褍谢芯屑褍, 胁芯薪懈 褋邪屑褨 褔邪褋褌芯 褋褌邪褞褌褜 锌褉懈褔懈薪芯褞 褑懈褏 锌芯屑懈谢芯泻. 袩褉懈褔懈薪芯胁芯-薪邪褋谢褨写泻芯胁褨 锌械褌谢褨 鈥� 褑械 薪邪泄锌芯褕懈褉械薪褨褕懈泄 锌褉懈泄芯屑 褍 袩邪褌褉褍谢褨 褔邪褋褍, 邪谢械 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 胁胁芯写懈褌褜 泄芯谐芯 薪械 蟹邪写谢褟 褋胁芯谐芯 褋褞卸械褌褍. 袧邪胁锌邪泻懈 鈥� 胁褨薪 褋胁芯褩屑 褋褞卸械褌芯屑 锌褉芯斜褍褦 锌芯褟褋薪懈褌懈 芯泻褉械屑褨 写懈胁芯胁懈卸薪褨 蟹斜褨谐懈 胁 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 邪斜芯 卸 褉械褔褨, 褟泻褨 褨薪褕芯谐芯 谢芯谐褨褔薪芯谐芯 锌芯褟褋薪械薪薪褟 薪械 屑邪褞褌褜. 携, 薪邪锌褉懈泻谢邪写, 屑邪泄卸械 胁锌械胁薪械薪懈泄, 褖芯 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸 芦小屑褍褌泻褍 袨写褨薪邪 谐芯褌邪禄 褋褌邪胁 蟹褉械褕褌芯褞 锌褉邪芯斜褉邪蟹芯屑 袦械褉谢褨薪邪, 褏芯褔邪 锌褉芯 褑械 薪褨写械 胁 褌械泻褋褌褨 薪械 褋泻邪蟹邪薪芯, 褌邪 泄 胁 褨薪褌械褉薪械褌褨 薪褨褔芯谐芯 锌褉芯 褑械 褟 薪械 蟹薪邪泄褕芯胁.
袧邪胁褨褌褜 邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋褜泻懈泄 邪胁褌芯褉 斜械蟹 胁械谢懈泻懈褏 褌褉褍写薪芯褖褨胁 蟹薪邪泄褕芯胁 胁 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 校泻褉邪褩薪懈 屑懈褌褜, 褟泻邪 褋褌邪谢邪 锌芯胁芯褉芯褌薪芯褞 写谢褟 胁褋褜芯谐芯 褋胁褨褌褍. 袗谢械 卸 褏褨斜邪 胁芯薪邪 斜褍谢邪 褌邪泻邪 芯写薪邪? 校褟胁谢褟褦褌械, 褋泻褨谢褜泻懈 泻谢芯锌芯褌褨胁 袩邪褌褉褍谢褞 褔邪褋褍 屑褨谐 斜懈 蟹邪胁写邪褌懈 褟泻懈泄褋褜 胁褨写褔邪泄写褍褏, 褖芯 褋锌褉芯斜褍胁邪胁 斜懈 胁褌褉褍褌懈褌懈褋褜 胁 薪邪褕褍 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 胁 褉褨蟹薪褨 褉芯泻懈? 小泻褨谢褜泻懈 褋褞卸械褌褨胁 褑械 屑芯谐谢芯 斜 写邪褌懈 褨 褋邪屑芯屑褍 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪褍, 褨 泄芯谐芯 薪邪褋谢褨写褍胁邪褔邪屑! 袗卸 薪邪胁褨褌褜 锌褉懈泻褉芯, 褖芯 褌械锌械褉 胁褋褨褏, 褏褌芯 褋锌褉芯斜褍褦 蟹褉芯斜懈褌懈 褖芯褋褜 锌芯写褨斜薪械, 芯写褉邪蟹褍 蟹胁懈薪褍胁邪褌褟褌褜 褍 锌谢邪谐褨邪褌褨.
啸邪泄 褌邪屑 褟泻, 邪 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 胁写邪谢芯 胁锌谢褨胁 褋胁芯褩 褋褞卸械褌懈 褍 褋锌褉邪胁卸薪褞 褨褋褌芯褉褨褞, 锌褉懈 褑褜芯屑褍 写谢褟 锌芯写芯褉芯卸械泄 胁 褔邪褋褨 胁懈谐邪写邪胁 写褍卸械 锌褉芯褋褌褨 褌邪 蟹褉褍褔薪褨 锌褉邪胁懈谢邪. 袉 谐芯谢芯胁薪械 鈥� 褋锌芯薪褍泻邪胁 锌芯褋褌褨泄薪芯 写褍屑邪褌懈: 邪 褖芯, 褟泻斜懈?
袩械褉褕邪 泻薪懈谐邪 写褍卸械 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢邪褋褜. 效械泻邪褞 薪邪 写褉褍谐褍.
袗谢械 褑褜芯谐芯 褉邪蟹褍 锌芯斜芯褞胁邪薪薪褟 斜褍谢懈 屑邪褉薪褨.
袩械褉械写褍褋褨屑 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢邪褋褜 褋邪屑邪 泻芯薪褑械锌褑褨褟 屑邪薪写褉褨胁 褍 褔邪褋褨, 褟泻邪 蟹邪谐邪谢芯屑 写芯胁芯谢褨 斜谢懈蟹褜泻邪 写芯 褌芯褩, 褖芯 胁懈泻芯褉懈褋褌芯胁褍褦褌褜褋褟 褍 袛芯泻褌芯褉褨 啸褌芯 (褑褨泻邪胁芯, 褔懈 泄芯谐芯 褌胁芯褉褑褨 薪邪写懈褏邪谢懈褋褟 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪芯屑). 小褍褌褜 褌邪泻邪: 写褉褨斜薪褨 蟹屑褨薪懈 胁 屑懈薪褍谢芯屑褍 薪械 胁锌谢懈薪褍褌褜 薪邪 屑邪泄斜褍褌薪褦 - 褌泻邪薪懈薪邪 褔邪褋褍 褋邪屑邪 胁懈褉褨胁薪褟褦褌褜褋褟, 褟泻 锌褉褍卸懈薪邪. 袧邪胁褨褌褜 褟泻褖芯 胁斜懈褌懈 褋胁芯谐芯 锌褉邪褖褍褉邪, 褌芯 胁褋械 芯写薪芯 薪邪褉芯写懈褕褋褟, 锌褉芯褋褌芯 褌胁褨泄 谐械薪芯屑 蟹斜械褉械褌褜褋褟 蟹 褨薪褕懈褏 胁褨写褌懈薪泻褨胁 袛袧袣. 袨写薪邪泻 写械褟泻褨 屑芯屑械薪褌懈 蟹屑褨薪褞胁邪褌懈 薪械 屑芯卸薪邪. 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 褑械 薪邪蟹懈胁邪褦 芦胁褍蟹谢芯胁褨 屑芯屑械薪褌懈禄, 袛芯泻褌芯褉 啸褌芯 鈥� 芦褎褨泻褋芯胁邪薪褨 褌芯褔泻懈禄.
袟 袛芯泻褌芯褉芯屑 啸褌芯 袩邪褌褉褍谢褜 褔邪褋褍 锌芯褦写薪褍褦 薪械 褌褨谢褜泻懈 屑械褏邪薪褨泻邪, 邪谢械 泄 锌褉懈蟹薪邪褔械薪薪褟 锌芯写芯褉芯卸械泄 胁 褔邪褋褨: 写芯褋谢褨写卸械薪薪褟 屑懈薪褍谢芯谐芯 褨 薪邪屑邪谐邪薪薪褟 蟹邪褏懈褋褌懈褌懈 泄芯谐芯 胁褨写 褌懈褏, 褏褌芯 锌褉邪谐薪械 胁褌褉褍褌懈褌懈褋褜. 袉 褑械, 胁谢邪褋薪械, 写褉褍谐懈泄 胁邪卸谢懈胁懈泄 锌谢褞褋 褑懈泻谢褍. 袙褉邪褏芯胁褍褞褔懈, 褖芯 泄写械褌褜褋褟 锌褉芯 胁懈褋芯泻褨 褌械褏薪芯谢芯谐褨褩, 谢械谐泻芯 斜褍谢芯 斜 褋泻芯褉懈褌懈褋褟 褋锌芯泻褍褋褨 褨 锌械褉械薪械褋褌懈 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸褨胁 褍 褟泻械褋褜 屑邪泄斜褍褌薪褦. 袗谢械 斜褨写邪 屑邪泄斜褍褌薪褜芯谐芯 褍 褌芯屑褍, 褖芯 薪褨褏褌芯 泄芯谐芯 薪邪褋锌褉邪胁写褨 薪械 蟹薪邪褦, 褨 褦 锌械胁薪懈泄 褋屑褍褌芯泻 胁褨写 褌芯谐芯, 褖芯 2015 褉褨泻 胁卸械 写邪胁薪芯 屑懈薪褍胁, 邪 胁 薪邪褋 写芯褋褨 薪械屑邪 邪薪褨 谢械褌褞褔懈褏 邪胁褌褨胁芯泻, 邪薪褨 褋邪屑芯褕薪褍褉褍胁邪谢褜薪懈褏 褔械褉械胁懈泻褨胁. 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 褑械 褉芯蟹褍屑褨褦, 褌芯屑褍 蟹芯褋械褉械写卸褍褦褌褜褋褟 薪邪 屑懈薪褍谢芯屑褍 - 邪 褌邪屑 卸械 褨 褋锌褉邪胁写褨 褦, 褖芯 锌芯写芯褋谢褨写卸褍胁邪褌懈.
袉 褦, 写械 薪邪褉芯斜懈褌懈 锌芯屑懈谢芯泻. 袧械 蟹 褌芯褔泻懈 蟹芯褉褍 邪胁褌芯褉邪, 屑邪褞 薪邪 褍胁邪蟹褨, 邪 蟹 褌芯褔泻懈 蟹芯褉褍 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸褨胁. 袗写卸械, 薪邪屑邪谐邪褞褔懈褋褜 胁懈锌褉邪胁懈褌懈 锌芯屑懈谢泻懈 胁 屑懈薪褍谢芯屑褍, 胁芯薪懈 褋邪屑褨 褔邪褋褌芯 褋褌邪褞褌褜 锌褉懈褔懈薪芯褞 褑懈褏 锌芯屑懈谢芯泻. 袩褉懈褔懈薪芯胁芯-薪邪褋谢褨写泻芯胁褨 锌械褌谢褨 鈥� 褑械 薪邪泄锌芯褕懈褉械薪褨褕懈泄 锌褉懈泄芯屑 褍 袩邪褌褉褍谢褨 褔邪褋褍, 邪谢械 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 胁胁芯写懈褌褜 泄芯谐芯 薪械 蟹邪写谢褟 褋胁芯谐芯 褋褞卸械褌褍. 袧邪胁锌邪泻懈 鈥� 胁褨薪 褋胁芯褩屑 褋褞卸械褌芯屑 锌褉芯斜褍褦 锌芯褟褋薪懈褌懈 芯泻褉械屑褨 写懈胁芯胁懈卸薪褨 蟹斜褨谐懈 胁 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 邪斜芯 卸 褉械褔褨, 褟泻褨 褨薪褕芯谐芯 谢芯谐褨褔薪芯谐芯 锌芯褟褋薪械薪薪褟 薪械 屑邪褞褌褜. 携, 薪邪锌褉懈泻谢邪写, 屑邪泄卸械 胁锌械胁薪械薪懈泄, 褖芯 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸 芦小屑褍褌泻褍 袨写褨薪邪 谐芯褌邪禄 褋褌邪胁 蟹褉械褕褌芯褞 锌褉邪芯斜褉邪蟹芯屑 袦械褉谢褨薪邪, 褏芯褔邪 锌褉芯 褑械 薪褨写械 胁 褌械泻褋褌褨 薪械 褋泻邪蟹邪薪芯, 褌邪 泄 胁 褨薪褌械褉薪械褌褨 薪褨褔芯谐芯 锌褉芯 褑械 褟 薪械 蟹薪邪泄褕芯胁.
袧邪胁褨褌褜 邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋褜泻懈泄 邪胁褌芯褉 斜械蟹 胁械谢懈泻懈褏 褌褉褍写薪芯褖褨胁 蟹薪邪泄褕芯胁 胁 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 校泻褉邪褩薪懈 屑懈褌褜, 褟泻邪 褋褌邪谢邪 锌芯胁芯褉芯褌薪芯褞 写谢褟 胁褋褜芯谐芯 褋胁褨褌褍. 袗谢械 卸 褏褨斜邪 胁芯薪邪 斜褍谢邪 褌邪泻邪 芯写薪邪? 校褟胁谢褟褦褌械, 褋泻褨谢褜泻懈 泻谢芯锌芯褌褨胁 袩邪褌褉褍谢褞 褔邪褋褍 屑褨谐 斜懈 蟹邪胁写邪褌懈 褟泻懈泄褋褜 胁褨写褔邪泄写褍褏, 褖芯 褋锌褉芯斜褍胁邪胁 斜懈 胁褌褉褍褌懈褌懈褋褜 胁 薪邪褕褍 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 胁 褉褨蟹薪褨 褉芯泻懈? 小泻褨谢褜泻懈 褋褞卸械褌褨胁 褑械 屑芯谐谢芯 斜 写邪褌懈 褨 褋邪屑芯屑褍 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪褍, 褨 泄芯谐芯 薪邪褋谢褨写褍胁邪褔邪屑! 袗卸 薪邪胁褨褌褜 锌褉懈泻褉芯, 褖芯 褌械锌械褉 胁褋褨褏, 褏褌芯 褋锌褉芯斜褍褦 蟹褉芯斜懈褌懈 褖芯褋褜 锌芯写褨斜薪械, 芯写褉邪蟹褍 蟹胁懈薪褍胁邪褌褟褌褜 褍 锌谢邪谐褨邪褌褨.
啸邪泄 褌邪屑 褟泻, 邪 袗薪写械褉褋芯薪 胁写邪谢芯 胁锌谢褨胁 褋胁芯褩 褋褞卸械褌懈 褍 褋锌褉邪胁卸薪褞 褨褋褌芯褉褨褞, 锌褉懈 褑褜芯屑褍 写谢褟 锌芯写芯褉芯卸械泄 胁 褔邪褋褨 胁懈谐邪写邪胁 写褍卸械 锌褉芯褋褌褨 褌邪 蟹褉褍褔薪褨 锌褉邪胁懈谢邪. 袉 谐芯谢芯胁薪械 鈥� 褋锌芯薪褍泻邪胁 锌芯褋褌褨泄薪芯 写褍屑邪褌懈: 邪 褖芯, 褟泻斜懈?
袩械褉褕邪 泻薪懈谐邪 写褍卸械 褋锌芯写芯斜邪谢邪褋褜. 效械泻邪褞 薪邪 写褉褍谐褍.
August 14, 2011
A nice classic sci-fi book. It is actually a collection of short stories, but they all include the character Manse Everard, an Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the current timeline of history by thwarting the attempts of those who would try to fashion an alternate future. A fun book, especially if you like history, although I take all the historical "facts" with a grain of salt, because I'm not sure how much was fictionalized for the story, and some of it definitely reflects the author's worldview biases. Despite trying to be "outside of time", this book definitely reflects the attitudes of the time and place where it was produced (late 20th century America). It is fun to drop in on different ancient cultures, and see the emotional drama as Time Patrol agents get involved with the people of history, wrestling with how much suffering they can alleviate without causes undue impacts in history.
April 18, 2013
I thought these were wonderful time travel stories. They were detailed, and authentic. I was appreciative that they weren't predictable in skipping right to popular historical events but rather involved much more subtle and lesser-known historical events and examined the role time guardians might play if such were threatened.
Although I noticed some of the few writing quirks that others have commented about those did not make me fall out of the story. I would rank these stories below only Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer" as the best time travel stories around.
Although I noticed some of the few writing quirks that others have commented about those did not make me fall out of the story. I would rank these stories below only Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer" as the best time travel stories around.
May 7, 2014
The Time Patrol is a collection of related stories. Each can stand alone, all of them include the same character in a central role. I enjoyed Anderson's scope of the stories, but some of the craft of the writing is not as brilliant as his imagination. I recommend this book primarily to fans of old-style science fiction. Fans of Star Trek ought to enjoy this book, although Time Patrol is entirely based on Earth with no off-world travel. Historical elements play a big part of the enjoyment of this book.
September 9, 2016
Se me ha hecho largu铆simo. Tambi茅n lo dej茅 aparcado como tres meses o as铆 pero puff. Las historias, asi como relatos independientes no estan mal, pero creo que el autor quer铆a demostrar que sab铆a m谩s sobre historia que otra cosa, porque m谩s que ciencia ficci贸n ha sido lecci贸n de historia tras otra.
Por otro lado la idea es muy original, y toda la teor铆a del viaje en el tiempo est谩 muy bien tramada. Le echo en falta burnos personajes, todos son tan planos que aburre. Exceptuando, tal vez, el Errante.
Por otro lado la idea es muy original, y toda la teor铆a del viaje en el tiempo est谩 muy bien tramada. Le echo en falta burnos personajes, todos son tan planos que aburre. Exceptuando, tal vez, el Errante.
January 10, 2017
I must admit, I'm totally new in the science fiction genre but when I saw this book in the store I just bought it without knowledge. What a good surprised, Manse Everard is a really well made character and his tales are mostly interesting (maybe I found boring one of them) but I had a great experience reading this adventures of the time patrol and to be honest I feel like there should be more about it! I would like to read a real end for Manse Everard
August 20, 2017
3.5 Se va desinflando poco a poco, pero a煤n as铆 es un libro muy bueno. Me gustan m谩s los primeros relatos, m谩s antiguos en la escritura de Anderson, pero tambi茅n m谩s frescos y menos cargados de esa visi贸n occidental y antropoc茅ntrica del mundo (especialmente del mundo antiguo). En algunos relatos se pasa de infodump (aunque entiendo que no todo el mundo tiene por qu茅 conocer los avances y retrocesos de Roma por Europa y su contexto de guerras internas, por ejemplo).
September 26, 2014
Poul Anderson is one of my favorite authors, and this is another excellent yarn. It is a time travel story, and in my humble opion, no one writes them better. As well, Anderson's prose delights. Without resorting to an excess of obscure vocabulary or difficult structure, his writing is still dense and rich with meaning.
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