Doomsday Book: A time travel novel that will stay with you long after you finish reading (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

by Connie Willis (Author), Christopher Gibbs (Illustrator)

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $14.06

  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.

  Winner of the Hugo Award 1993
  Winner of the Nebula Award 1993

  
  

  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