Doomsday Book

578 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1993 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-56273-6
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OCLC Number:
28681854

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3 stars (2 reviews)

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 …

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1 star

Connie Willis sucks at predicting the future, that much is clear. Time travel in 2048 but no internet or cell phones? Nigga, please. Luddites unfamiliar with current technology don't really have any business writing science fiction, but that aside the pacing was beyond terrible and the dialogue idiotic. I'm kind of sad that I bought the Kindle edition because I can't get the catharsis of tearing this book in two and throwing it in the trash.

Subjects

  • Middle Ages -- Fiction
  • Black death -- Fiction
  • Time travel -- Fiction
  • Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- History

Places

  • Europe