In 'Blackout,' award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060-the setting for several of her most celebrated works-and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. About the Author:īook Description Paperback. Together, Blackout and All Clear constitute a seamless, deeply moving masterpiece that will be read-and remembered-for many years to come.
Their increasingly desperate attempts to return “home” to the year 2060 form the core of a narrative that ranges freely, and with great authority, across time and space, from the evacuation of Dunkirk to the ultimate triumph of V-E Day-and beyond.The result is a work of great ingenuity and bottomless humanity that uses chaos theory, meticulous research, and a dizzying array of temporal paradoxes to reconstruct a vanished era, illuminating that era through the varied perspectives of the soldiers, sailors, shop girls, and ambulance drivers who struggled through it. Three time-traveling scholars, each investigating a different aspect of World War II, are stranded together in London during the height of the Blitz. Like its predecessor, Blackout, it is both a brilliantly constructed work of science fiction and a masterful recreation of a pivotal moment in 20th century history.The story begins in the immediate aftermath of Blackout. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īll Clear is the magisterial conclusion to Connie Willis's epic, two-volume account of love, war, and time travel. The thrilling time-tripping adventure that began with Blackout now hurtles to its stunning resolution in All Clear. Dunworthy, frantically confronts the seemingly impossible task of rescuing his students-three missing needles in the haystack of history. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the stranded historians’ supervisor, Mr.
When discrepancies in the historical record begin cropping up, it suggests that one or all of the future visitors have somehow changed the past-and, ultimately, the outcome of the war. And now there’s more to worry about than just getting back home: The impossibility of altering past events has always been a core belief of time-travel theory-but it may be tragically wrong. But getting marooned in war-torn 1940 England has turned Michael Davies, Merope Ward, and Polly Churchill from temporal tourists into besieged citizens struggling to survive Hitler’s devastating onslaught. Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors of the Dunkirk evacuation and the London Blitz.
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