- Black Death, Fantasy, Fiction, History
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning best-seller in the United States, this is the first of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy.Kivrin knows everything about the Middle Ages - she's read all the books. She knows it's dangerous: cutthroats in the woods, witch hunts, cholera, and millions dying in the plague. For a young historian, it's fascinating.When Kivrin's tutors in Oxford's history lab finally agree to send her on an on-site study trip, she jumps at the chance to observe medieval life first-hand. But a crisis that strangely links the past and future leaves her stranded in the most deadly and terrifying era in human history, face to face with the heart-rending reality behind the statistics. And while she fights for her own life, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope in this dark time.Five years in the writing, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the timeless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Connie Willis
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 559
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Science Fiction, Recorded Books LLC
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780739487136
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**Connie Willis** is an internationally known science fiction author and the winner of an unprecedented total of seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards. She is also the first author to have won both the Hugo and Nebula in all four fiction categories. In 2009, she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and in 2012 she became a Nebula Grand Master of Science Fiction. Willis is the author of *Doomsday Book*, winner of the Nebula and Hugo awards for Best Science Fiction Novel; *Lincoln’s Dreams*, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel; and *To Say Nothing of the Dog*, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Her other fiction includes
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