For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction. -- The Washington Post Book World. that Connie Willis did, in fact, over the five years Doomsday Book took her to write, open a window to another world, and that she saw something there. . .
It becomes possible to feel . . . . -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The world of 1348 burns in the mind\'s eye, and every character alive that year is a fully recognized being. -- The Denver Post Splendid work--brutal, gripping and genuinely harrowing, the product of diligent research, fine writing and well-honed instincts, that should appeal far beyond the normal science-fiction constituency.
The best work yet from one of science fiction\'s best writers. . . .
Praise for Doomsday Book A stunning novel that encompasses both suffering and hope.
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.
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her.
For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
For Kivrin, 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.
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
Five years in the writing by one of science fiction\'s most honored authors, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph.
Now she pens a sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the time of the Black Plague.
Campbell Award.
Her first novel, Lincoln\'s Dreams, received unanimous high praise and won the John W.
For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction
