Doomsday Book
A Novel
by Connie Willis
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Time Travel, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction.
For Kivrin, preparing an onsite 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 rendezvo...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Time Travel, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction.
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Susan J. Fowler
“If you?re looking for a pandemic book, my favorite is DOOMSDAY BOOK by Connie Willis. | If you’re looking for a pandemic book, my favorite is DOOMSDAY BOOK by Connie Willis.”
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