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Blackout

Blackout

Historical FictionScience Fiction
Pages
528
Published
2010
Language
English

Synopsis

Connie Willis, a master of time-travel fiction, brings us Blackout, a story set in Oxford in 2060 where historians are sent to various points in the past. When assignments begin to go awry, a group of historians find themselves in the midst of World War II, facing not only the dangers of war but also the unsettling feeling that history itself is unraveling.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

TenseDarkThought-ProvokingAtmospheric
Time LoopQuestSurvival

Genres

Historical Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel World War II Fantasy Suspense

About the author

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Connie Willis

Connie Willis (born Constance Elaine Trimmer, December 31, 1945, in Denver, Colorado) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for her time-travel novels following historians from a future Oxford University, including Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Blackout/All Clear. She has won more major genre awards than any other writer in the field's history. In 2011 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named her its Damon Knight Memorial Grand Maste...

Characters

Merope WardProtagonist
All characters in Blackout