Doomsday Book
A time travel novel that will stay with you long after you finish reading
$47.55
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2014
Summary
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 fell…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575131095 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575131098 |
| Author: | Connie Willis |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 133mm x 40mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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A tour de force
A tour de force * New York Times Book Review *Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable * Locus *It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in * Washington Post *
About The Author
Connie Willis
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.
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