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Science Fiction Fans : Your Essential Science Fiction List		146	arthurfrayn, August 18
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Historical Fiction : books which switch time periods...		3	margad, August 11
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The Green Dragon : Best books, and worst books, that you read in 2007		61	margaretplays, February 22
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Your 2007 Best Reads in the Genre		24	stellarexplorer, January 30
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... Wales by Karen Harper 7/19/08 22. Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue 23. Holy Fools by Joanne Harris 24. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 8/10/08 25. The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee 26. Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen 8/20/08 27. A Constant Heart ...

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

... Game. I bought Pastwatch when it came out in hardcover, but haven't read it yet. I *love* Connie Willis. Try: - The Doomsday Book or - To Say Nothing of the Dog or - Lincoln's Dreams On my list to try, but not read yet, is David Weber. I've had his Honor Harrington series ...

... and present as an author who writes a novel set entirely in the past. And when a time-switching novel is well-written (like Doomsday Book), the part of the novel set in the past can pull the reader into a different time period just as effectively.

... the Muslim-held territories, bit by bit. And the characters really come alive. I also second the recommendations of The Doomsday Book and The Name of the Rose. You can probably find a lot more books in your "missing centuries" at my Historical Novels website: jmgold in Science Fiction Fans : Your Essential Science Fiction List (Aug 8, 2008, 6:29pm)

... : Peter Watts Pattern Recognition : William Gibson Snow Crash : Neal Stephenson White Light : Rudy Rucker Doomsday Book : Connie Willis Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World : Haruki Murakami A Scanner Darkly : Philip K Dick Nine Princes in Amber : Roger Zelaz ...

... a couple of well-regarded stories - 'All My Darling Daughters', for example - and one or two well-regarded novels - like Doomsday Book. But for the last few years, it's been nothing but bloody twee Christmas stories. Like the one on this year's Hugo ballot. Is that what people think is really ...

... City by Alastair Reynolds Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear Doomsday Book by Connie Willis End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Excession by Iain M. Banks Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold Feersum Endjinn ...

... get into, IMHO The Testament of Yves Gundron by Emily Barton because it strikes me that this is what the Gawdawful Doomsday Book could have been if...well, never mind. What Mr. Man will do to me when I walk in with all these books while I'm packing doesn't bear thinking about.

Yes, unless the episodes set in the past are purely incidental to the main narrative. I consider Connie Willis's Doomsday Book both historical fiction and SF.

... Dog came here. I will be darned if I know how it happened. Seriously... Granted Lincoln's Dreams was terrible. Doomsday Book and Passage were both very good, my fave of the two being Passage. At least we agree on Lace Reader and I think it would be wonderful for little Brunon ...

... padding on his man, and LOVES to eat. >158 mckait, be fair now..I finished every last miserable syllable of Doomsday Book even though I think it cost me three years off my life (not the crummy ones at the end, either, three good ones: 51, 60, and 63). I gave up on To Say Nothing ...

I'm currently reading an ARC of First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Both are very good. I'm also listening to the The Host by Stephanie Meyer. I love the online audio downloads from my library.

Welcome to LT, Mary! I read East of Eden a year or so ago and loved it! I'm currently reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. If you like Young Adult Fiction, the "Read YA Lit" group does alot of group reads. "Science Fiction Fans" has done a few group reads that were successful. Th ...

I've just started Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and enjoying it very much.

I'm reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

... read. I loved all of it. I am trying to think of something not positive to say, but no luck. I liked it better than The Doomsday Book, and I did like that one a lot. This is going to sit next to TheLace Readeron my favorites shelf. I can hardly believe that I found two reads like ...

... of memory. It too is for a RL book group. I liked Life of Pi very much, but didn't care for Passage, but loved Doomsday Book, and my favorite To Say Nothing of the Dog.

... Set aside Winter in Madrid for now. About 80 pages in and wasn't into it. Re: Connie Willis. Loved Passage and Doomsday Book, but had a rougher time with Lincoln's Dreams. Will eventually read the rest of Willis' work, I think. Thought Shadow of the Wind was terrific. Glad ...

... you. That ol' TBR pile ... Someone just sent me To Say Nothing of the Dog, and I can see it is quite different from Doomsday Book, but haven't delved in yet. Will definitely report on it when I know, but looking at your favorite authors, I am going to guess that you would like DB.

>141 Doomsday Book was my first Connie Willis. I found it slow but ultimately rewarding. I preferred Passage.

... they were new, movies; I get the feeling that would make my experience of the book all the more enjoyable. Did you read Doomsday Book? That one defeated me. Just couldn't get any traction in it. >140 booklady, lawsy me! Perfect?! What a lot to live up to....

Yes, Teelgee, I do seem to be reading a lot. So many good books lately. I don't know for sure about Doomsday Book for you, but I think that because the future is not so futuristic and the past is so accurate to the period, you would not find it too sci-fi, but perhaps more in line with an ...

... src="http://www.librarything.com//picsizes/67/a9/63ffc855d1736cd5b977bbd76206aa72.jpg"> #37 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Even if I didn't especially like time-travel books, this combination sci-fi/historical novel would have been a fantastic read. I couldn't ...

... Report, you will enjoy this book. I refrained from reading it in public because it made me laugh out loud so often. 34. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Part of my continuing quest to read all the Hugo winning novels, this book was fantastic. It gets off to a slow start, but is worth ...

I am starting late, sussabmax, since I am working on Doomsday Book and am already pledged to read The Razor's Edge next, however I will try to get in a few Orangies anyway this month.

When I began reading The Doomsday Book on Saturday, I found a pass to Philly from Denver and one for the trip back! I found a bookmark with cats on it in a book that had belonged to my aunt The Golden Cat. She passed 1.5 yrs ago and was a huge cat person. I will be using that and hopefully ...

I finished The Doomsday Book, went back to a fluffy Barbara Michaels Here I Stay and now have no idea what to pick up for today. Since I work I will think about it until later. Although, I need a new book for work, too.

... story wasn't getting into my head somehow. #16 mckait, I am really interested in the many positive opinions I run acroo of Doomsday Book because I was so annoyed by the tedious slog I found it to be. I have disliked every Connie Willis book I've read with the exception of Inside Job. I find ...

Thanks to suggestions by folks here and elsewhere, This morning I picked up The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. I was sucked in by the second paragraph. Fantastic book...I am on page 100.

... on Wheels by Christopher Morley Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

... since I have heard such great things about it. It is definitely worth a read, though. I am now supposed to be reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, which I've been looking forward to, but I got side-tracked by Stephen Colbert's hilarious I am America (and So Can You!).

smacks self in head Oh yeah... I just read two recently. Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis. In a rather interesting way, she used the same basic premise -- historians at Oxford using time travel for research - ...

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Mammoth Book of Vampires The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women The Book of Hope The Big Book of Hell by Matt Groening

... is a great French series of novels about Philip the Handsome and his sons, and the destruction of the Knights Templar. The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is a time travel novel where a 21st Century female scientist winds up in a small English village just as the Black Death strikes. The ...

... Mockingbird by Harper Lee Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

... hmmm, perhaps I should suggest that in my email to ACE... btw, Connie Willis tells a funny story about the edition of The Doomsday Book that had the romance cover...(there's no romance in book)...

Alaska, I love both The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I put the Jack Finney book on hold at my local library only to get a note back from them that it is no longer in circulation. I am beyond disappointed . . .

#78-Glad you liked it! I'm giving Doomsday Book another go this week.... I was up at three a.m. on Wens., coughing and sneezing (I'm offically allergic to Spring) and trying to sleep upright in my computer chair, and I thought a book about the Black Plague might take my mind off my troubles! ...

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Time traveling history student goes to village suffering from plague in 14th C. England. Willis is a great storyteller.

F&SF was pretty good under Rusch. But good editors rarely make good writers. Just look at Dozois. I read Willis' Doomsday Book when it was published. That wasn't bad. And I've read a collection of short stories by her, Fire Watch. That's currently available for sale on eBay... Her cutesy Chri ...

... Greanias The Eight by Katherine Neville ( touchstone wrong) Foucault's Penduum by Umberto Eco Doomsday Book by Connie Willis I started Atlantis Rising... pretty good fluffy-ish read

... my 40th birthday! Recommends: 1. Lincoln's Dreams my OTHER favorite. Winner of the J. W. Campbell Award 2.The Doomsday Book A book I need to go back and finish. It is a time travel novel, but it involves the Plague Years of England and the subject matter got me down. I ...

... lot. I have three favourites at this particular time (no pun intended) they are The Time Machine, H. G. Wells - Doomsday Book, Connie Willis and Lightning, Dean Koontz.

... was A Long Way Gone , although Scribbling the Cat was a close second. I'm not sure about the best fiction. Maybe Doomsday Book. And I have to agree about Devil in the White City. I thought the writing style was awkward. And the story it tells is so terrible that I simply couldn't ...

Is it The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis?

H: Historical Fiction: 1. Doomsday Book 2. Innocent Traitor 3. The Green Branch 4. Falls the Shadowread 5. Julian 6. Time and Chanceread 7. Eine Messe für die Medici 8. The King must die

... Leibowitz. The overall story, with the present and past portions, called to mind Connie Willis's Fire Watch and Doomsday Book.

... Alison McLeay - Recommended by Sarah Johnson, NoveList 4. The Greatest Knight -Recommended by John Hopper 5. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis 6. A Crowded Marriage - Catherine Alliott 7. Beau Crusoe - Carla Kelly - Recommended by Sarah Johnson , NoveList - Fin ...

... Omens, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dragon Prince, Neverwhere, Absolute Sandman, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Doomsday Book ... FAVORITE DRINK: apple martini or a white russian FAVORITE CHEESE: gouda FAVOURITE SPELLING OF FAVORITE: "Favorite" FAVORITE GOURD-NOSED BARBARIAN: Obel ...

I didn't read much sf this year. By far the best of what I did read was a rereading of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. The best of what was new to me was: Not this August by C. M. Kornbluth The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley ...

... es 1. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 2. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 3. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson 4. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 5. Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey 8 SF/Fantasy 1. Eater by Gregory Benford 2. Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stir ...

Oh, by the way, Bob, I got the fiction work, The Doomsday Book and really enjoyed it. Have also read two more in fiction by Ann Benson: The Physician's Tale and Thief of Souls. Additionally, Ken Follett's World Without End--the second in his series of novels about a cathedral ...

... of Britain. Lots of good historical stuff as well as a fantasy thread that ties the episodes together. I also liked Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

... records on the web very easily. There are a couple of facts - a) Snow Crash was up against some tough competition - Doomsday Book, A Fire Upon The Deep, Red Mars to name but three in the same year. b) Views on what makes a great book change. Simple as that. This is true in the ...

I second the Doomsday Book recommendation!

I'd actually recommend Connie Willis's Doomsday Book over my own favorite TSNotD - Doomsday Book is intended to be more historical (rather than comedic), and appears on the surface to me as a non-medievalist reasonably well studied. As a time-travel book, it also gets into the importance of ...

Connie Willis's Doomsday book and wasn't at all happy...I seem to be the only person who reads her stuff with an annoyeed sigh at how many places the editors could have tightened things up without losing any clarity or savor, while smartening things up pacewise quite handily. Had the same ...

... gave me his stupid XBox360 3 weeks ago and I have only just this weekend finished 1 book since then. Grrrrr.... :-(* 40. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis An interesting Hugo & Nebula award winner from '92, Doomsday Book recounts the tale of a historian named Kirvin who travels from 2035 to 1348 ...

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 - Cecil Woodham-Smith Doomsday Book - Connie Willis (plague) Death is a Lonely Business - Ray Bradbury his name was death - Fredric Brown The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

Waiting for me in the mailbox was Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

... by Anthony Burgess The Godforsaken by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Crossover by Michael Jan Friedman

... Pathfinder by Laeta Kalogridis Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Tokyo Underworld by Robert Whiting Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

... a few fantasy books which are set in Oxford, though as such, the setting is not exactly trustworthy. Connie Willis's Doomsday Book is the best of them. takes place concurrently in the past and the future, and though the focus is on the Middle Ages, Oxford plays a role as well.

... era and is, I'm told, loosely based on Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome (haven't read that one yet). Doomsday Book takes the heroine back to the middle ages and the black plague. These are both Hugo winners. Other than Connie Willis I have a bit of an aversion to time ...

You might enjoy To Say Nothing of the Dog and/or Doomsday Book, both by Connie Willis. Although they don't involve aliens, they both involve time travel and could be described as "historical fiction based on fact."

Illusion was my favorite too. I liked The grand Eclipse and The Gates of Twilight. I just got some of her earlier novels...The Sorcerer's Lady series and The Luck of Relian Kru. Have you read any of those?

... Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories, because I had liked one of her stories in an anthology Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, because I enjoyed Fire Watch and others Katy Munger, Out of Time, because she's local and I enjoyed Legwork Robert Bly's Selected Poems, ...

Hello! I really like the Royal Diaries Series. They are really good! I have read: Anastasia, Last Grand Dutchess this link is wrong Eleanor, Crown Jewel Of Aquitaine this link is wrong

I agree heartily with the mentions of Connie Willis. Doomsday Book was based on the concepts in her award winning short story Fire Watch, also the title story of a collection. History students are sent to actually see the events they're studying. Time travel plays a part in my absolute ...

... Author: This month it is Sharon Kay Penman Favorite Books: The Hobbit, Clan of the Cave Bear, Here Be Dragons, Doomsday Book, Where the Red Fern Grows (I still sob at the end of it), and a few others that will pop into my head once I hit submit. Favorite Drink: Sweet Tea (I'm ...

Connie Willis, for Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Bellwether and others. I adore Kage Baker's novella The Empress of Mars.

... them from the library (they tend to be costly, especially unabridged versions). I recommend very highly Connie Willis's Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, which I recently listened to in their unabridged formats. I can't remember the name of the man who read the latter, but I ...

... a sizable stack of fiction to read concurrently, probably starting with Empress of the World, Such a Pretty Girl, and Doomsday Book.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is a great book about a modern time-traveler going to the Middle Ages who deals with the plague firsthand. My favorite historical fiction is The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley, which started my lifelong obsession with the Trojan War when I read it in middle ...

thanks macgillicutty :) Doomsday Book was my first Connie Willis - I read it last year and loved it. I have To Say Nothing Of the Dog in my 'to be read' stack for later this year.

Freelunch - saw you had a connie willis book up there - have you read doomsday book yet? her best, with to say nothing of the dog a close favorite, as far as i'm concerned good luck

... what a real epidemiologist makes of it. Oh, and if you liked the Bensons, you should certainly check out Connie Willis' Doomsday Book: a contemporary historian time-travels to 14th C England, but accidentally lands in the middle of the Black Death.

... need to re-read them. I have re-read The Wedding by Garwood, mainly because it makes me laugh. I think I also read Doomsday Book tiwce. (Wonderful story.) When I'm in a particular mood, I somtimes re-read some of my favorite children's stories, like Eloise, The Little Prince, I Am ...

... read? I capture the castle Angry Pyjamas A Brother's Price Shards Of Honor- lots of good stuff by this author Doomsday book Guys and Dolls City of Pearl- first in series The Anubis Gates A fall of moondust The speed of DarK Hard time Lots of good stuff by her too. ...

... Don't be concerned, Simon. I don't have much to lose here but a little time. I'm still looking forward to the book. :) Doomsday Book is one of my all-time favorites, so I can find no wrong in it. LOL.

... the book. oh dear expectations are always a bad idea. back to the subject. about a year ago our reading group chose doomsday bookbyconnie Willis as its selection. I had not read any Connie Willis but I like SF and it had won a Hugo so although it lokked abit depressing I set to with a ...

I'm glad you mentioned Doomsday Book I checked my review and it ended midsentence. I have put another one up. The short version? It is worth reading.

John - Doomsday Book is one of my favorite time travel books, but it is rather slow paced, at least for most of the story. I think that may be one of the reasons that it is such a powerful story overall. When things do start happening, they have even more of an impact. This discussion reminds ...

Currently reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Wonderful, though it's quite slow paced (a comment, not a criticism). John

... Nerd alert. Well, I definitely have respect for logically consistent versions of time travel -- and Pastwatch and Doomsday Book are unusual in their consistency. (Either you have to reset the clock -- no back-and-forth travel -- or you have to have a built-in mechanism to prevent ...

... on the outline before time. If that is not allowed, could someone let me know? ellen.w, I love Connie Willis and Doomsday Book is definitely on my desert-island shelf. She is such a great writer. I've recommended that book so many times to others. I also loved Lincoln's Dreams ...

kukkurovaca, To Say Nothing of the Dog is also excellent, but I read Doomsday Book first and it seems to have imprinted more strongly as a result. Really, I recommend (to different degrees) everything Connie Willis has written! And now I'm curious where you think Dog breaks/bends the ...

... Say Nothing of the Dog, Or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (boy, these touchstones demand specificity) to Doomsday Book - although I waver a bit when trying to decide whether Dog breaks or bends the excellent rules of Doomsday.

... if there were a convenient method of transferring (e.g., through PayPal) $2 to her "tip jar" in return for the pleasure of Doomsday Book, then that would satisfy both the author's request for compensation and my own desire for a fairly purchased yet inexpensive read. I don't know how such a ...

... to decide on one that will be good NaNo fodder... selkie_girl, two of my favorite time-travel books are Pastwatch and Doomsday Book; maybe you'll get some ideas from them. They have different takes on the effects of time-travel, too.

... Price by Wen Spencer Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (This is related to Doomsday Book but I've never felt the need to read it based on TSNotD. It's on the TBR list though.) Stardust by Neil Gaiman Tithe by Holly Black Older and may be ...

I agree wtih bostonian71 ... To Say Nothing of the Dog and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis are great. The Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde are hilarious!

I *loved* To Say Nothing of the Dog. Doomsday Book was also excellent, but heartbreaking. I also love Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books, which often feature some time travel as well as alternate-reality shenanigans.

... why it wouldn't work for some. Connie Willis handles time travel wonderfully in both To Say Nothing of the Dog and The Doomsday Book. The first book is a lot of fun and plays around with the concept of time travel nicely, the second is more thought-provoking and, in the sections dealing ...

Bettyjo (message 36), I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Connie Willis's The Doomsday Book takes a time-traveller from the future back to Oxford during the plague years. I couldn't put it down. I borrowed this from fetchbook.info : "This extraordinarily powerful ...

... has been trying to read it, and I decided to read it along with her. Year of Wonders was very good. Have you tried Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, bettyjo? It's a very different take on the plague (time travel back to the plague), but worth reading.