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Blackout

Connie Willis · 2010 · Novel

Setting: near future (2060)

Series: Blackout (Connie Willis) — #1

Universe: Oxford Time Travel

Synopsis

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide--and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor.

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Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionWorld War, 1939-1945Time travelResearchHistorical FictionScience FictionFantasyFiction, fantasy, generalWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionaward:nebula_award=novel

isfdb_id: 1069551

openlibrary_id: OL14914265W

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