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| Title | : | Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel #1) |
| Author | : | Connie Willis |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 578 pages |
| Published | : | July 1992 by Bantam Spectra (first published June 5th 1992) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Time Travel. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy |
Connie Willis
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 578 pages Rating: 4.03 | 45578 Users | 4902 Reviews
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For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.Details Books Toward Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel #1)
| Original Title: | Doomsday Book |
| ISBN: | 0553562738 (ISBN13: 9780553562736) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford Time Travel #1 |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (1993), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1992), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1993), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1993), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (1993) Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (1994) |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 45578 Users | 4902 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel #1)
I am very concerned. I read The Doomsday Book time travel saga, eagerly anticipating it based on the many Goodreads reviews that highly praise this story. Many reviewers whom I trust rave about this book. I just didnt see it at all, not a bit. Not only was it supremely boring, but annoying. The first 120 pages can be summarized: something is wrong. During the next 180 pages, the rest of the characters realize there is something wrong. Yawn! I felt like slapping virtually every character in theApocalyptic!(That's a quote from the only character I truly liked in this book.)My first Connie Willis book. Ive heard A LOT about this from all kinds of other readers. And I must admit that there is no denying the quality. At all. But more of that later.This is about a historical institute belonging to the University of Oxford in 2054/2055. Since this book was written some time ago, there are no cell phones or laptops, but the telephones are some form of FaceTime the way they were described.
What I find most objectionable about this book is its apparent lack of editing. Half the novel consists of people panicking over the phone about other phone conversations other people have had about people getting on and off trains who are the children of WHO CARES. Willis has no sense of perspective, no skill for inventing the suggestive detail; consequently, this novel is a monument to the gods of boredom. This on top of the implausible premise that if time travel were available as a
This was so freaking good!! Im going to have to get the other books now!! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Somehow, by the year 2053, we'll have invented time travel but lost the use of cell phone technology. You'd think that was a pretty good trade-off, right? Well, if you've read a few of Connie Willis' "future historian" time travel books, you know that we're probably better off as we are, because without cell phones, it seems humanity would spend most of its days in fevered attempts to place calls by landline video phone, narrowly missing one another, encountering busy circuits, unable to locate
The Middle Ages are a shady back alley of history. They are a juvenile delinquent to which all the 'proper' historical eras give the proverbial side-eye. Life expectancy in 1300 was thirty-eight years, he had told her when she first said she wanted to go to the Middle Ages, and you only lived that long if you survived cholera and smallpox and blood poisoning, and if you didnt eat rotten meat or drink polluted water or get trampled by a horse. Or get burned at the stake for witchcraft. And yet,
$1.99 Kindle sale, Jan. 21, 2019. Maybe my favorite time travel book ever (and I do like me a good time travel tale), Doomsday Book won both the Hugo and Nebula (as well as several other awards) in the early 1990s when it was published. Kivrin is a history major at Oxford in a near-future world where time travel machines are controlled by universities and used for research purposes. Kivrin is traveling back in time to live in a medieval English village for a few weeks, but things go just a bit
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