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* TheyDo: "Gibraltar Falls" has this at the end for Thomas and Feliz, when he suggests a choice for her MeaningfulRename.
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Most of the stories feature Manse Everard, a 20th-century American and Unattached agent, as the main character, or as a secondary one. Many crucial incidents feature TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold, such as the UsefulNotes/PunicWars.
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Most of the stories feature Manse Everard, a 20th-century American and Unattached agent, as the main character, or as a secondary one. Many crucial incidents feature TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold, lesser-known history, such as the UsefulNotes/PunicWars.
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* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: Some odd eras are used.
** Prehistory is often used for recreation and training. "Gibraltar Falls" takes place then, on the falls from the Atlantic into what would be, one day, the Mediterranean.
** "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" takes place in Tyre.
** "Brave To Be A King" takes place mostly in ancient Persia, and Manse is deeply concerned that he can not save a time traveler because of the historical significance of Cyrus the Great.
** In "The Only Game In Town", a Mongol expedition is working its way down the West Coast and two Patrolmen have to stop it and keep it from getting back. (Manse realizes that in fact they are tampering with time — the Time Patrol is keeping not the untampered-with history but the one they like — because nothing really should have stopped them.)
** In "Delenda Est", the Punic Wars prove to be the crucial era, and the climax lies in ensuring that the Scipios survive a battle.
** Prehistory is often used for recreation and training. "Gibraltar Falls" takes place then, on the falls from the Atlantic into what would be, one day, the Mediterranean.
** "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" takes place in Tyre.
** "Brave To Be A King" takes place mostly in ancient Persia, and Manse is deeply concerned that he can not save a time traveler because of the historical significance of Cyrus the Great.
** In "The Only Game In Town", a Mongol expedition is working its way down the West Coast and two Patrolmen have to stop it and keep it from getting back. (Manse realizes that in fact they are tampering with time — the Time Patrol is keeping not the untampered-with history but the one they like — because nothing really should have stopped them.)
** In "Delenda Est", the Punic Wars prove to be the crucial era, and the climax lies in ensuring that the Scipios survive a battle.
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* PrimeTimeline: {{Zigzagged}}. While the Time Police are working to protect ''a'' timeline, it's not the original, and there's eventually action to prevent the original from re-asserting itself.
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* YouCantFightFate: A major theme of the stories. One character summarizes it: "Against time even the gods are powerless. I did as I was doomed to do."
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* NonLinearCharacter: the Time Patrol operatives can’t “see” all times at once, but they know generally what’s happened and what’s supposed to happen at any point in the time-line. It’s their job to make sure the time-line doesn’t change. It’s also implied that the more experienced Patrol agents are much older than they look, since they have access to future health care and don’t live their lives in chronological order.
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''Time Patrol'' is a series of works, mostly short stories, by Creator/PoulAnderson. They take place in a universe where the resolution to the GrandfatherParadox is that you now exist without ever have had a father, and the TimePolice relentlessly works to keep time nevertheless on the same path -- while ruthlessly expurgating futures, filled with living beings, that do not conform to it. Doing this often requires the sacrifice of time travelers or those they love.
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''Time Patrol'' is a series of works, mostly short stories, by Creator/PoulAnderson. They take place in a universe where the resolution to the GrandfatherParadox is that you now exist without ever have having had a father, and the TimePolice relentlessly works work to keep time nevertheless on the same path -- while ruthlessly expurgating futures, filled with living beings, that do not conform to it. Doing this often requires the sacrifice of time travelers or those they love.
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* SherlockHolmes: In "Time Patrol", where the Victorian era office would like to hire a contemporary detective, but the only one clever enough is probably clever enough to figure out the Time Patrol. Other clues make it clear that this unnamed detective is Holmes.
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* SherlockHolmes: Literature/SherlockHolmes: In "Time Patrol", where the Victorian era office would like to hire a contemporary detective, but the only one clever enough is probably clever enough to figure out the Time Patrol. Other clues make it clear that this unnamed detective is Holmes.
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* BriarPatching: In "The Only Game In Town", Manse warns his Mongol captors that the modern distilled liquors he's carrying are too strong for them. They disagree, take it as a date, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor find out the hard way]] that he wasn't kidding.
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* BriarPatching: In "The Only Game In Town", Manse warns his Mongol captors that the modern distilled liquors he's carrying are too strong for them. They disagree, take it as a date, dare, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor find out the hard way]] that he wasn't kidding.
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* TheMenFirst:
** In "The Only Game In Town", the Mongol commander starts to object to the men sharing the distilled liquor, but stifles it: officers share equally with the humblest of their men.
** In "Arsenal Port", Heim contemplates his motives for keeping on plugging in the wearisome, dangerous, and unlikely to succeed journey; one might be this, though he's not sure.
** In "The Only Game In Town", the Mongol commander starts to object to the men sharing the distilled liquor, but stifles it: officers share equally with the humblest of their men.
** In "Arsenal Port", Heim contemplates his motives for keeping on plugging in the wearisome, dangerous, and unlikely to succeed journey; one might be this, though he's not sure.
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**TheMenFirst: In "The Only Game In Town", the Mongol commander starts to object to the men sharing the distilled liquor, but stifles it: officers share equally with the humblest of their men.
** In "Arsenal Port", Heim contemplates his motives for keeping on plugging in the wearisome, dangerous, and unlikely to succeed journey; one might be this, though he's not sure.men.
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** In "Arsenal Port", Heim contemplates his motives for keeping on plugging in the wearisome, dangerous, and unlikely to succeed journey; one might be this, though he's not sure.
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* {{Demythification}}: In "Brave To Be A King", Manse finds that the MosesInTheBulrushes legend is being told about Cyrus the Great in his lifetime, and learns that the actual Cyrus was exposed and killed, and the recovered one was actually the time traveler Manse was looking for. To keep history on track, they go back and intimidate the grandfather out of trying to kill Cyrus — so that the legend must have become attached to Cyrus at a later date.
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%%* AboveGoodAndEvil: The Danellians
%%* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In "Delenda Est".
%%* AncientAstronauts: Except with time travelers.
%%* TheAtoner: Harpagus in "Brave To Be A King"
%%* BittersweetEnding: Typically.
%%* BlueBlood: Deidre in "Delenda Est".
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Everard derides such people in his own century while back in DarkAgeEurope.
* BriarPatching: Manse warns his Mongol captors that the modern distilled liquors he's carrying are too strong for them. They disagree and find out the hard way that he wasn't kidding.
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent: Deidre's plea in "Delenda Est".
%%* TheChosenOne: Invoked in "Brave To Be A King" to restore history
%%* ColorCodedPatrician: Invoked in "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
%%* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In "Delenda Est".
%%* AncientAstronauts: Except with time travelers.
%%* TheAtoner: Harpagus in "Brave To Be A King"
%%* BittersweetEnding: Typically.
%%* BlueBlood: Deidre in "Delenda Est".
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Everard derides such people in his own century while back in DarkAgeEurope.
* BriarPatching: Manse warns his Mongol captors that the modern distilled liquors he's carrying are too strong for them. They disagree and find out the hard way that he wasn't kidding.
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent: Deidre's plea in "Delenda Est".
%%* TheChosenOne: Invoked in "Brave To Be A King" to restore history
%%* ColorCodedPatrician: Invoked in "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In "Delenda
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* AncientAstronauts: Used, with time
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* TheAtoner: Harpagus in "Brave To Be A
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* BittersweetEnding:
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* BlueBlood: Deidre in "Delenda
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Everard derides such people in his own century while back in
* BriarPatching: In "The Only Game In Town", Manse warns his Mongol captors that the modern distilled liquors he's carrying are too strong for them. They
** In "Brave To Be A King", Manse prevents an infanticide by telling the king that, among other things, that he must not shed the children's innocent blood.
** In "Delenda
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* ColorCodedPatrician: Invoked in "Ivory, and Apes, and
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%%* DistressedDude: Scipios in "Delenda Est"
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In "Brave To Be King" used to explain an infanticide
* ExposedToTheElements: In "Delenda Est", the use is derided
* FearOfThunder: Mongols are allowed this.
%%* FishOutOfWater: Deirdre in "Delenda Est"
* ForWantOfANail: Carefully explained as not a problem -- more major changes are needed.
%%* GodGuise: Used repeatedly
* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: Some odd eras are used. Such as ancient Persia.
* HomeSweetHome: Many members of the Patrol have more than a touch of this.
* InHarmsWay: All members of the Patrol have some of this.
%%* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In "Brave To Be A King"
* JadeColoredGlasses: Manse admits to them.
%%* LadyLand: or era -- the Matriarchies.
%%* LiesToChildren: Or rather, to Babylonians.
%%* LightIsGood: Invoked in the Persian setting of "Brave To Be A King"
%%* LoveTriangle: In the BackStory of "Brave To Be A King"
%%* {{Macguffin}}: the chest in "Time Patrol"
%%* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Constantly
%%* MeaningfulRename: In "Gibraltar Falls"
%%* TheMenFirst: In "The Only Game In Town"
%%* MosesInTheBullrushes: in "Brave To Be A King" twisted
%%* MurderTheHypotenuse: A temptation in "Brave To Be A King"
* OntologicalInertia: Temporal inertia makes it hard to change the past -- including changing it back.
* TheReveal: In "Delenda Est" that time was tampered with.
%%* SacredHospitality: In "Time Patrol"
%%* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Possible. But dangerous.
* SherlockHolmes: Unnamed but identifiable in "Time Patrol"
%%* StreetUrchin: In "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
* TakeThat: Musings about the "noble Nordic"
%%* TalkAboutTheWeather: In the Dark Ages
%%* TheyDo: In "Gibraltar Falls"
* ThickerThanWater: In "Delenda Est", why the meddlers could take out both father and son.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In "Brave To Be King" used to explain an infanticide
* ExposedToTheElements: In "Delenda Est", the use is derided
* FearOfThunder: Mongols are allowed this.
%%* FishOutOfWater: Deirdre in "Delenda Est"
* ForWantOfANail: Carefully explained as not a problem -- more major changes are needed.
%%* GodGuise: Used repeatedly
* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: Some odd eras are used. Such as ancient Persia.
* HomeSweetHome: Many members of the Patrol have more than a touch of this.
* InHarmsWay: All members of the Patrol have some of this.
%%* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In "Brave To Be A King"
* JadeColoredGlasses: Manse admits to them.
%%* LadyLand: or era -- the Matriarchies.
%%* LiesToChildren: Or rather, to Babylonians.
%%* LightIsGood: Invoked in the Persian setting of "Brave To Be A King"
%%* LoveTriangle: In the BackStory of "Brave To Be A King"
%%* {{Macguffin}}: the chest in "Time Patrol"
%%* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Constantly
%%* MeaningfulRename: In "Gibraltar Falls"
%%* TheMenFirst: In "The Only Game In Town"
%%* MosesInTheBullrushes: in "Brave To Be A King" twisted
%%* MurderTheHypotenuse: A temptation in "Brave To Be A King"
* OntologicalInertia: Temporal inertia makes it hard to change the past -- including changing it back.
* TheReveal: In "Delenda Est" that time was tampered with.
%%* SacredHospitality: In "Time Patrol"
%%* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Possible. But dangerous.
* SherlockHolmes: Unnamed but identifiable in "Time Patrol"
%%* StreetUrchin: In "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
* TakeThat: Musings about the "noble Nordic"
%%* TalkAboutTheWeather: In the Dark Ages
%%* TheyDo: In "Gibraltar Falls"
* ThickerThanWater: In "Delenda Est", why the meddlers could take out both father and son.
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** In "Delenda
* DistressedDude:
** "Brave To Be A King": Finding where Denison is in time and extricating him.
** "Delenda Est": They deduce the deaths of the Scipios in battle caused the AlternateHistory and go to rescue them.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In "Brave To Be
* ExposedToTheElements: Discussed in "Delenda Est" — a Cro-Magnon guide is dressed rather like an Eskimo, and Everard derides the way no one credited them with enough sense to
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* FishOutOfWater: In "Delenda Est",
* FearOfThunder: Mongols are allowed this.
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* ForWantOfANail:
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* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: Some odd eras are
** Prehistory is often used for recreation and training. "Gibraltar Falls" takes place then, on the falls from the Atlantic into what would be, one day, the Mediterranean.
** "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" takes place in Tyre.
** "Brave To Be A King" takes place mostly in ancient
** In "The Only Game In Town", a Mongol expedition is working its way down the West Coast and two Patrolmen have to stop it and keep it from getting back. (Manse realizes that in fact they are tampering with time — the Time Patrol is keeping not the untampered-with history but the one they like — because nothing really should have stopped them.)
** In "Delenda Est", the Punic Wars prove to be the crucial era, and the climax lies in ensuring that the Scipios survive a battle.
* HomeSweetHome: Many members of the Patrol have more than a touch of
* InHarmsWay: All members of the Patrol have some of
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* JadeColoredGlasses: In "Gibraltar Falls", Manse admits
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** In "The Only Game In
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** In "Arsenal Port", Heim contemplates his motives for keeping on plugging in the wearisome, dangerous, and unlikely to succeed journey; one might be this, though he's not sure.
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%%* TimeTravel
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Averted by inventing a language, Temporal, with more tenses.
%%* TimeyWimeyBall: All the changes. . . .
* TrickedOutTime: Features such wonders and abuse of the self-consistency principle that when a man sees his lover falling off a cliff, he turns his head, so that he doesn't see her hit bottom and can come back and rescue her later.
%%* WillNotTellALie: Persians in "Brave To Be A King"
%%* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Deirdre in "Delenda Est"
%%* YouWillBeBeethoven: Or Cyrus the Great. Or Odin.
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%%* TimeyWimeyBall: All the changes. . . .
* TrickedOutTime: Features such wonders and abuse of the self-consistency principle that when a man sees his lover falling off a cliff, he turns his head, so that he doesn't see her hit bottom and can come back and rescue her later.
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** In one story, a time-traveler gets pressed into taking the place of an assassinated Persian royalty; history remembers him as Cyrus the
** In "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth", a time-traveling anthropologist is trying to find the source of a particular legend involving the god Odin. He visits a dark-ages Goth community several times over the course of decades, and the locals, noting that he never seems to age (among other reasons), decide he is Odin. At the end he has to close the StableTimeLoop by doing what Odin is described as doing in the legend, even though it means killing two of his grandsons.
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%%* {{Demythtification}}: Literally in "Brave To Be A King"
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* VictorianBritain: A good chunk of the setting in "Time Patrol"
