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DOOMSDAY
BOOK (1992) |
Sub-category: Time travel
The plot: It's Christmas
time in Oxford and young Kivrin has persuaded departmental
head to send her back to witness Christmas just outside of
Oxford in the early 1300's. After extensive research and preparation,
Kivrin steps through the portal and arrives in the Middle
Ages. Disaster ensues as Kivrin is overcome by a fever after
her arrival - and an epidemic sweeps through modern Oxford.
It becomes a battle against time as Dunworthy, the departmental
head, battles to re-open the portal amongst chaos in Oxford
- and Kivrin begins to realise that she is not in the early
1300's at all...
Comment: Although a little
slow to start, this book will still have you burning the midnight
oil as each chapter is skillfully finished on a cliffhanger.
And when the cliffhanger chapter endings stop, you are in
to deep and have to keep turning pages to see what happens
anyway. A masterful novel of suspense written by this Nebula
and Hugo award winning writer.
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