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Name: Doomsday Book

Author: Connie Willis
Year: 1992
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Science fiction, Award winners, Time travel, Fantasy, Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9780553562736
0553562738

For Kivrin Engle, 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.

"A tour de force" - New York Times Book Review
"Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsivly readable" - Locus
"It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in" - Washington Post

This book is part of the "Oxford Time Travel" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"To Say Nothing of the Dog"
First published in 1998
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