enterdaa.blogg.se - Connie willis doomsday book series

Not to be confused with the 2021 novel Blackout by Simon Scarrow. And mostly the book’s about all the people who "did their bit" to save the world from Hitler - Shakespearean actors and ambulance drivers and vicars and landladies and nurses and WRENs and RAF pilots and Winston Churchill and General Patton and Agatha Christie - heroes all." "What are Blackout and All Clear about? They’re about Dunkirk and ration books and D-Day and V-1 rockets, about tube shelters and Bletchley Park and gas masks and stirrup pumps and Christmas pantomimes and cows and crossword puzzles and the deception campaign. What Connie Willis said about Blackout and All Clear: And suddenly, none of their drops to the future are opening. Merope has her hands full with the children (including sibling terrors, Alf and Binnie Hodbin), Polly finds a group to shelter with during the raids, and Michael goes searching for a way to get to Dover in time.Īnd then things start to go wrong. Michael and Polly lose some time to "slippage," but all three go about in their assignments. Polly Churchill (using the last name "Sebastian"), who wants to observe the Blitz itself, while posing as a shopgirl in Oxford Street.

Merope Ward, posing as the servant Eileen O'Reilly, who is observing the children evacuated to the countryside during the Blitz.

Michael Davies, posing as an American reporter, who wants to observe the heroism of the people at the evacuation of Dunkirk, from the safer vantage point of Dover.

In Oxford, in the year 2060, three historians are preparing to travel back to World War II: The books were published only a few months apart, in 2010, and were given a Hugo Award as a single work.

Blackout / All Clear is one book divided into two, written by Connie Willis, and set in her "Fire Watch"-universe (along with Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog).