I start choking up at any mention of Dunkirk and can’t listen to or read the “We shall fight on the beaches” speech without actively crying, so this book was fun to read. No, it really was, actually, despite the tears and feeling of Impending Doom which hovered over the story. I can’t wait to read t...
Fifty years in our future, time-traveling Oxford historians studying key moments early in the Second World War become stranded in time in various locales around England. Like the contemporaries they are assigned to observe, the historians increasingly feel the weight of impending doom. Doubt seeps ...
Interesting but flawed.The story thoroughly drew me in, even though (unlike The Domesday Book), I found myself stumbling repeatedly over why the time travellers were permitted to travel in the first place, and how whoever had invented the process had managed to create a situation where historians tr...
The first half of a two-part story, and the third of novels set around a future-based academic time-travel department at Oxford, Blackout is my second favorite of the bunch behind the incomparable Doomsday Book. Where Blackout frustrates is in its pacing, with a heady amount of over-talking and tho...
This is really half a book, so it is hard to review. Not the first part in a duology, but truly half a book. There is no plot convergence. Nothing gets solved. There are characters that have a POV for a few chapters and then disappear, without us knowing why we get to look at their lives (Mary Kent,...
In the year 2040 many things have improved … medicine, literature and even education. In the year 2040 historians are an elite group. They can travel back in time to observe “history” happening first hand. Of course, there are rules to keep the time continuum intact, and history cannot be changed...
It's hard to pick favorite works by a favorite author. With Connie Willis, it's even harder. Bellwether is a fine example of how she crosses science fiction with a romantic comedy of errors; Doomsday Book showcases her ability to tackle serious subjects with finesse; To Say Nothing of the Dog is j...
It was a bad move, shifting from elliptical brevity to the every-bowl-of-oatmeal-and-every-train-route detail of Willis' Blitz-era time-travel adventure. This'll delight many people -- it's richly attentive to the period. (Yet many could be annoyed by both the quantity and the method; all these ...
While I enjoyed this I don't think I can review it as it's only half the novel -- the other half, All Clear, doesn't come out until late in 2010. More then.
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