Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

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Orion
14 January 2014

Science fiction; Sci-Fi Alternate History; Science; Post Holocaust Sci-Fi; Society; Time; GALAXY Special Event 1; Nebula Award

Series: S.F. Masterworks

For Kivrin Engle, 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.

Winner of the Hugo Award 1993

Winner of the Nebula Award 1993

''A tour de force'' - New York Times Book Review

''Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsivly readable'' - Locus

''It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in'' - Washington Post

By: Connie Willis
Imprint: Orion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780575131095
ISBN 10: 0575131098
Series: S.F. Masterworks
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 14 January 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: www.sftv.org/cw

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis has won, among other accolades, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards for her writing, and was recently named an SFWA Grand Master. She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado.

Reviews for Doomsday Book

It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in * Washington Post * Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable * Locus * A tour de force * New York Times Book Review *

Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 1993 (UK)
Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1993 (UK)
Shortlisted for Arthur C. Clarke Award 1993.
Shortlisted for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1993.