"Connie Willis"编著的书籍

末日之书(Doomsday Book)

《末日之书》——

伊芙琳,2054年牛津大学一个历史系的学生,她对中世纪的人类历史进程的每一个细节都了如指掌,热爱历史的她热切地想回到那个地方。而跃迁网传送时发生了意外的错误,原本被计划送到1320年的英国却被回送到1348年的英国一个小乡镇。而那时,正是黑死病开始蔓延的时候。当伊芙琳意识到这一切的时候,她不得不与之进行斗争。

而21世纪的现在,也出现了未曾预料过的情况。操作传送门的技术员在完成伊芙琳定点位置确定后意外倒下了。而随着他的倒下,大规模不明感染源的流感开始蔓延,地铁被封锁,而这就恰恰是圣诞期间,没有其他技术员能够进到被封闭区。坚信伊芙琳身处险境的导师丹沃斯正为了拯救她而努力着……

荣获“星云奖”及“雨果奖”双料大奖巨著

历史上最杰出的传染病科幻小说

“一部杰出之作——惊心动魄、引人入胜、感人至深,这部考据严谨、文笔优美、直指人心的作品,其影响力远远超出一般科幻小说的范畴。” ——《柯克斯书评》重点评论

媒体评价:

一部杰出之作——惊心动魄、引人入胜、感人至深,这部考据严谨、文笔优美、直指人心的作品,其影响力远远超出一般科幻小说的范畴。 ——《柯克斯书评》重点评论

书中所描绘的1348年的世界在我们心中留下了不可磨灭的印象,每个人物都栩栩如生,仿佛触手可及……康妮•威利斯花费了五年多的时间写作此书,她开启了一扇通往另一个世界的窗口,将一些不可思议的东西呈现在我们面前。 ——《华盛顿邮报书评》

一部极其优秀的作品……充满张力、扣人心弦。 ——《底特律自由报》

本年度最佳类型小说之一……受到广大读者的热切推崇。

——美国图书馆协会《书单》杂志

本年度最佳科幻小说获奖呼声最高的作品……震撼灵魂的悲剧性氛围,直抵人心的感染力。——《明尼阿波尼斯明星论坛报》

威利斯的文字清晰流畅,叙事技巧娴熟,堪称十年以来最杰出的作家之一……《末日之书》)值得特别关注。 ——《图书馆杂志》

传统科幻小说与历史重构小说完美结合的天才典范之作。 ——《出版人周刊》

一部宏大的小说,细节描写出色,叫人不能释卷。 ——著名科幻评论杂志《轨迹》

Blackout

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can “catch up” to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody—from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid—is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.

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