Blackout

Zusatztext   “A tour de force . . . [Willis] is one of America’s finest writers.” — The Denver Post “This compassionate and deeply imagined novel . . . gives the reader a strong you-were-there feeling.” — The Times-Picayune   “[Willis has] researched Blackout so thoroughly, her readers may imagine she had access to the time machine her characters use.” —The Seattle Times   “A page-turning thriller . . . Willis uses detail and period language exquisitely well, creating an engaging, exciting tale.” —Publishers Weekly   Informationen zum Autor Connie Willis, who was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, has received six Nebula Awards and ten Hugo Awards for her fiction; her previous novel, Passage , was nominated for both. Her other works include Doomsday Book, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Remake, Uncharted Territory, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Fire Watch, and Miracle and Other Christmas Stories . Connie Willis lives in Colorado with her family. Klappentext Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling 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 VE-Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone's schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. Leseprobe Come then: Let us to the task, to the battle, to the toil—each to our part, each to our station, there is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour to lose. —winston churchill 1940 Oxford—April 2060 Colin tried the door, but it was locked. The porter, Mr. Purdy, obviously hadn’t known what he was talking about when he’d said Mr. Dunworthy had gone to Research. Blast it. I should have known he wasn’t here, Colin thought. Only historians prepping for assignments came to Research. Perhaps Mr. Dunworthy’d told Mr. Purdy he was going to do research, in which case he’d be in the Bodleian Library. Colin went over to the Bodleian, but Mr. Dunworthy wasn’t there either. I’ll have to go ask his secretary, Colin thought, loping back to Balliol. He wished Finch was still Mr. Dunworthy’s secretary instead of this new person Eddritch, who would probably ask a lot of questions. Finch wouldn’t have asked any, and he’d have not only told him where Mr. Dunworthy was, but what sort of mood he was in. Colin ran up to Mr. Dunworthy’s rooms first, on the off chance Mr. Purdy hadn’t seen Mr. Dunworthy come back in, but he wasn’t there either. Then he ran across to Beard, up the stairs, and into the outer office. “I need to see Mr. Dunworthy,” he said. “It’s important. Can you tell me where—?” Eddritch looked at him coldly. “Did you have an appointment, Mr.—?” “Templer,” Colin said. “No, I—” “Are you an undergraduate here at Balliol?” Colin debated saying yes, but Eddritch was the sort who would check to see if he was. “No, I will be next year.” “If you’re applying to be a student at Oxford, you need the Provost’s Office in Longwall Street.” “I’m not applying to be a student. I’m a friend of Mr. Dunworthy’s—” “Oh, Mr. Dunworthy has told me about you.” He frowned. “I thought you were at Eton.”...

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A tour de force . . . [Willis] is one of America s finest writers.
The Denver Post

This compassionate and deeply imagined novel . . . gives the reader a strong you-were-there feeling.
The Times-Picayune
 
[Willis has] researched Blackout so thoroughly, her readers may imagine she had access to the time machine her characters use.
The Seattle Times
 
A page-turning thriller . . . Willis uses detail and period language exquisitely well, creating an engaging, exciting tale.
Publishers Weekly
 

Product details

• Authors: Connie Willis
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2010
• EAN: 9780345519832
• ISBN: 978-0-345-51983-2
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Blackout; All Clear; Oxford Time Travel; All Clear; Oxford Time Travel; Blackout; Random House Worlds
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy