Time Patrol

7 hrs. 29 min.

Language Russian

Author Poul Anderson

Narrator Stepan Starchikov

Description

In the first novella, “Patrol of Time,” a time traveler equipped with laser weapons finds himself on the shores of “Misty Albion” during the era of the kings Hengist and Arthur. The unification of warring Britons and Saxons into a single kingdom gradually led to the spread of their power across the entire planet.

The second novella in the collection, “How Easy It Is to Be King,” tells of a journey into a world where the Persians build pagan temples and predict the future from the entrails of animals; the Europeans haven’t escaped the forests yet, and America hasn’t been discovered. “The Only Game in Town” is a story about the Mongols conquering America, creating the most powerful state on Earth. When Columbus arrived at American shores, he found the Great American Khanate.

“Delenda Est.” In this world there are no airplanes, no atomic weapons, no spacecraft, and no penicillin. Hannibal captured and destroyed Rome. In 1955, the Carthaginians still fight the Germans in Africa. Lithuania is the most powerful state in Europe, and America is inhabited by the Celts, who drive primitive steam cars.