'Doomsday Book' Review
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Oxford Time Travel #1)
Doomsday Book reader reviews ... This is, in all honesty, a deeply compelling and wonderfully creative historical fiction novel masquerading as a sci-fi book. All ...
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis - The perfect book for the moment.
Following a dual narrative, one in 2050s Oxford where a flu epidemic has broken out and the other a village just outside Oxford 1348, the year ...
Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil ...
A young student called Kivrin goes back to 1320, during Edward II's reign - or so she thinks. In fact, she ends up in 1348 by mistake, and gets caught up in ...
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If you've never read this book before, it's got a lot of death. A lot of people die, a lot of people are helpless in the face of death, some ...
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) - Goodreads
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, ...
Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis | Carpe Librum
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is a blend of science fiction and historical fiction set in Oxford. Now a modern SF classic I loved it, ...
Connie Willis' Doomsday Book: Classic SF About Pandemics ...
Doomsday Book is a heartbreaking, beautiful, and thoroughly-researched science fiction book about pandemics by Connie Willis.
Medieval Reads: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis - Medievalists.net
The premise of the story is one of time travel gone very slightly awry, with devastating consequences. Kivrin Engle is a scholar who ...
Willis sets the scene in Oxford's near future with deft dexterity, her characters crackle with humanity and there is a bone-dry humour running ...
Doomsday Book - Plumfield and Paideia
Consequently, her storytelling is richly visual, and when reading, it often feels like I am watching a movie in my mind. In 1992, she crafted a ...
A mutant virus has been spreading through Oxford, and Kivrin arrives in the past delirious with fever. She is found and taken to a manor house.
Reviews - Doomsday Book | The StoryGraph
All of this makes for a brilliant, suspenseful, disturbing and profoundly moving book. Don't go into it expecting fast-paced action. It is rather a study and an ...
The book features some interesting characters, a fast plot, and an intriguing world of time travel. The parallels between the future, the past, ...
As The Ebola Outbreak Worsens, A Book About Compassion - NPR
And yet, when I recalled Connie Willis' groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning science-fiction novel Doomsday Book, the resonances came back to me ...
Book Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis - The Book Smugglers
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 ...
Book Review: Connie Willis' Doomsday Book - KD Did It
First in the Oxford Time Travel science fiction fantasy set in Oxford in 2054 and the fourteenth century where illness strikes everywhere.
Doomsday Book (Connie Willis) - Danny Yee's Book Reviews
Doomsday Book is set in 2054, when time travel is run of the mill but everything else is, rather implausibly, pretty much like the present. The only real ...
I am usually a bit behind in writing my reviews, but I just finished Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, and I loved it so much that I couldn't ...