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Oxford historians sent to World War II Britain find themselves in trouble in a two-volume time-travel novel

Blackout/All Clear

by Connie Willis

2010Moderate readSteady pace
★ Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2011

One novel in two volumes, about historians in wartime Britain

Spectra published Blackout on 2 February 2010, a hardcover of 512 pages, and All Clear on 19 October 2010, with 656 pages. Together they form one novel. It is the most recent book of the Oxford time travel series. It is set in mid-21st-century Oxford, where historians conduct time-travel fieldwork, and in World War II-era Britain. Polly Churchill, Michael Davies, Merope Ward and Mr. Dunworthy are the main characters.

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Who

Polly Churchill, Michael Davies, Merope Ward and Mr. Dunworthy.

World

Mid-21st-century Oxford, and Britain during World War II.

What makes it different

It is one novel published in two volumes. It won the Hugo, the Nebula and the Locus Award.

Feel

Absorbing and long.

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About the author

Connie Willis3 books on Tori Books