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  • A blend of history and science fiction

  • I was engrossed the whole time I was reading. The characters are strong and the plot brilliantly imagined. I really appreciate Willis' attention to detail and her patience in telling the two stories. The descriptions of the plague are extremely powerful (and disturbing). It really makes you consider ... Continue

    I was engrossed the whole time I was reading. The characters are strong and the plot brilliantly imagined. I really appreciate Willis' attention to detail and her patience in telling the two stories. The descriptions of the plague are extremely powerful (and disturbing). It really makes you consider the destruction and the suffering that a single disease can cause. In Colin's words: it's "apocalyptic."

    

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For Kivrin, 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 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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