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Blackout (book)

6 Ratings: 3.2

book by Connie Willis

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3LPIPE4VRYLNO/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, … see full wiki

Tags: Books, Science Fiction Books, Fantasy Books, Time Travel, Alternate History

Author: Connie Willis

Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Publisher: Spectra

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review by katknit. November 20, 2010

posted in Forbidden Planet - Sci-Fi Books & Films!

Stranded

England, summer of 1945. England, 2060. Time travel has been a reality for a couple of decades, and three young historians are getting set to study England's heroic defiance of Hitler in the early stages of WWII. Merope, contemp name Eileen, is observing the effects of children evacuated from London to the countryside, while Michael, posing as an American correspondent, will be studying instances of bravery at Dover during the evacuation of Dunkirk. Polly, whose real name is no anachronism, … more

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review by duffbert. November 06, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Need to read All Clear to get the whole story...

Blackout by Connie Willis wasn't on my radar screen until a friend told me I should read All Clear. It only took me about 30 pages of All Clear to realize that I was in the middle of a story, so it was off to the library to get to the beginning of the story. Let me preface this by saying I've never read any of Connie Willis's work, so I can't review this from the angle of her prior novels and stories, which sound like they are very well liked by others. … more

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