Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards, placing it among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history.
Willis imagines a near future (first introduced in her 1982 story Fire Watch) in which historians conduct field work by traveling into the past as observers. The research is conducted at the University of Ox...
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Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards, placing it among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history.
Willis imagines a near future (first introduced in her 1982 story Fire Watch) in which historians conduct field work by traveling into the past as observers. The research is conducted at the University of Oxford in England in the mid-21st century.
In theory, history resists time travel which would cause the past to be altered by preventing visits to certain places or times. Typically the machine used for time travel will refuse to function, rendering the trip impossible. In other cases "slippage", a shift in the exact time target, occurs. The time-traveler arrives at the nearest place-and-time suitable for preventing a paradox; variance can be anything from 5 minutes to 5 years. Some periods theoretically accessible can also be deemed too...
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