June Books 5) Blackout, by Connie Willis

[nwhyte]

First half of the two-volume novel which won the Nebula last month and has been nominated for the Hugo. We are back in the time travel world of Fire Watch, Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, where near-future historians at Oxford send graduate students back to key points of British history (though their research methodology is never

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[webcowgirl]

It was just really weak, wasn't it? Normally I'm first out the chute for new Willis but I'm waiting for the sequel in paperback. Shall I mail it off to you when I'm done?

[nwhyte]

Very kind of you - let me know when you are finished with it and we'll see if I have acquired it in the meantime (though I probably won't).

[bookzombie]

And drplokta doesn't even include the issue with the Agatha Christie novel that I ranted about a few months ago ("Murder on the Orient Express" has never been published as "Murder on the Calais Coach" in the UK.)

I honestly hadn't spotted all the tube line issues, but then I'm not a Londoner so it's not something I particularly care about! I enjoyed her earlier books in the sequence (and again I'm not an Oxford person so didn't spot the errors in them either - except the whole 'muffler' thing). But the main problem with Blackout/All Clear is that they are just dull and self-indulgent.