The time is 2060 and scientists at Oxford have perfected the technology so that historians can travel in the past. As expected, there are rules of time travel and the system is fool proof. Historians cannot change the past and there are safeguards in place that prevent them from accidentally makin...
I've read all of Connie Willis' books with great enjoyment. When "Blackout" and its sequel "All Clear" came out, I bought both of them (the latter in Hardback) and settled down for a good read. It's unusual for me not to finish a book, but I gave up before I was halfway through "Blackout".I could ha...
Excellent buildup with a magnificent payoff -- ordinary things become suddenly extraordinary and breathtaking. One thing: make sure you have the sequel handy for when you finish.
This book made me cry and laugh...sometimes at the same time. Parts frustrated me (characters' endless internal speculation, for example), but other parts gave me chills, so I'm definitely in for round 2 in All Clear.By the way, before you finish Blackout, you should have a copy of All Clear ready t...
Blackout/All Clear.The two books are really one novel (thanks, publishers, for getting me to pay double!) so there's no reason to talk about them separately.They're also part of Willis' time travel series, although they're not advertised as such. I really wouldn't recommend starting with these books...
There is so much here that is frustratingly open ended that it's hard to consider this a book. I am very tempted to just start reading the second half right now. Glad I waited until both were out to start reading.
Pros: * some great writing* nice comic touches* obviously detailed research that informs a fascinating setting.Cons: * many pages wasted on bureaucratic issues and other minutia that become major plot points. * The characters are quite similar in the way they think, act and talk. I was especially f...
2016 July 14I love these books so much. Stories about women in wartime are catnip to me. But this book, in which the daily struggle to keep calm and carry on is so hard for Britons: it gives me all the feels, but also hope for humanity.2013 January 12010 March 14
3.5 stars. This was a very suspenseful story, to the point of sometimes seeming manipulative. Towards the end, I felt like I was reading one of the Nancy Drew books from my childhood, in which each chapter ended on a dramatic exclamation point, only to turn out to be a fake-out in the next. Still ve...
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