Blackout

Connie Willis

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English

Random House Inc
14 September 2010

Science fiction; Fantasy; Historical fiction; Dark Fantasy / Grimdark; Gods; Urban Fantasy; Hugo Award; Nebula Award

Series: Oxford Time Travel

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.

By: Connie Willis
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780345519832
ISBN 10: 0345519833
Series: Oxford Time Travel
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 14 September 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Blackout

A tour de force . . . [Willis] is one of America s finest writers. The Denver Post This compassionate and deeply imagined novel . . . gives the reader a strong you-were-there feeling. The Times-Picayune [Willis has] researched Blackout so thoroughly, her readers may imagine she had access to the time machine her characters use. The Seattle Times A page-turning thriller . . . Willis uses detail and period language exquisitely well, creating an engaging, exciting tale. Publishers Weekly