Nebula Award Best Novel Winner
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Summary
A historian named Kivrin travels back from a future Oxford to the medieval English countryside, only to land far closer to the Black Death than anyone intended. As she struggles to survive amid the plague, a deadly epidemic also breaks out in her own present, stranding her and endangering her colleagues. Willis weaves together two timelines to study faith, mortality, and compassion under the weight of catastrophe.
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Historical Context & Significance
The novel won both the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel and is the first of Willis's time traveling Oxford historians books.