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Doomsday Book

by Connie Willis
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  ★ 7.56 / 25
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Hugo Award 1993, Nebula Award 1992, Locus Award for Best SF Novel 1993. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 1993, Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 1993.

For Kivrin, preparing for 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 retrieved.

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.

Five years in the writing by one of science fiction's most honored authors, 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, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.

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Category: Science Fiction, Nebula Award, Locus Award, Hugo Award, Time Travel
Release date: 1992

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Connie Willis

Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 1945) is an American science fiction writer. Willis is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s: she has won nine Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Photo: Ellen Levy Finch. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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