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Doomsday (book)
A book by Connie Willis.
Author:
Connie Willis
Genre:
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher:
Spectra
3 reviews about Doomsday (book)
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Willis is one of the top earners of the Hugo award and this one will show you why
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review by cpw1952.
June 08, 2010
It's 2048 AD and, while time travel is possible, it is closely controlled and subject to severe physical restrictions. Kivrin, a young student in the history faculty of twenty-first century Oxford University will be conducting a clandestine research visit to one of the most perilous and least understood periods of Middle Age England - the early fourteenth century just prior to the onset of the bubonic plage, the Black Death that wiped out entire families and villages and decimated the population … more
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review by MichaelN.
December 07, 2009
For those of you who want intricate special effects regarding time travel (ala Michael Crichton's Timeline), you will not find it here. Instead we are provided a story with time travel elements that has well developed characters, good historical descriptions, and a great deal of suspense. A student of history is sent back in time to England in the late Middle Ages. Unknown to the student (by the name of Kivrin – what a great name!), the person who sent her … more
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