5/31/2023 0 Comments All clear novelAt almost 1,300 pages (between the two volumes), it's instead a massive, bloated and swollen book so packed with filler and minutiae that it's hard to plough on through the novel. Blackout and All Clear should have been a brilliant, compelling and tight 400-page or so page single novel. Blackout has been well-received, and is the favourite to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel this year. The two books are set in the same 'future history' as Willis' Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, though it is not necessary to have read those books to understand this one. The second half is published under the title All Clear. Increasingly worried that they may have altered the course of history, they try to find one another and pool their resources.but in the chaos of the Blitz, that's easier said than done.īlackout is the first half of an enormous single novel written by Connie Willis over a period of about five years. When a historian visiting World War II Britain makes an unexpected side-trip to Dunkirk (one of the divergence points), something does change, and he and two other historians working in the same period find themselves unable to get home. The laws of time travel prevent history from being changed: major 'divergence points' in history are unreachable and history will always course-correct. Thanks to the invention of time travel, historians are now undertaking field trips into the distant (and not-so-distant past), blending in with the 'contemps' to study history in motion.
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