- Time travel, Historians, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Connie Willis
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 641
- Publisher
- Spectra
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553807677
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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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