Blackout
by Connie Willis
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of timetraveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VEDay. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
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Susan J. Fowler
“@__apf__ My top 4 (really 5) favorites, in order: 1. Blackout and All Clear (two books but really just one big book) 2. To Say Nothing of the Dog 3. Passage 4. Doomsday Book”
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