Book description
Mase Everard is a man with a mission. As an Unattached Agent of the
Time Patrol, he's to go anyplace - and anytime! - where humanity's
transcendent future is threatened by the alteration of the past. This is
Manse's profession, and his burden: for how much suffering, throughout
human history, can he bear to "preserve"? Wanda Tamberley is a
Patrol member in search of her mission. Recruited from sunny California
in the late 20th century, she'd rather serve as a scientist in the
research branch, exploring Earth's flora and fauna in epochs long past.
But as hints accumulate from the Patrol's mysterious leaders uptime,
it's beginning to look as if a lot of human history depends on her
personal decisions - and Manse's. Meanwhile, the Exaltationists are on
the loose, determined to revise human history and rule Time forever and
Manse Everard is sworn to stop them, no matter what the heartbreaking
cost! Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of
Scandinavian stock. He started publishing science fiction in 1947 and
became one the great figures in the genre, serving as President of the
Science Fiction Writers of America, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula
awards, and was named a SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly
with wife, Karen, and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg
Bear. Poul Anderson died in July 2001.
