![]() The narrative follows three historians in 1940: Mike, unhappily participating in the rescue of soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 (when he should be at Pearl Harbor) Polly, posing as a shop girl in Townsend Brother's department store, and Eileen, researching the Children's Evacuation in Warwickshire, in the London countryside. Several stranded historians scramble to find alternate routes home as they begin to overstay their assignments, but rescue fails to arrive. Although frustrating on this end, where trips are sometimes delayed by weeks, it becomes far more serious in the 1940s, where bombs are dropping on London and the Net refuses to open. ![]() ![]() The typically hinky Net (time travel machine) is once again on the fritz, and missions are going wildly astray on both ends of time. OK, I understand that actually it was too long, forcing Willis to divide the tale between two books, Blackout and All Clear (to be published this fall), but even at 528 pages, I wasn't ready to stop reading.Īs in many of Willis's previous books, the story begins at England's Balliol College, Oxford University, the ubiquitous Mr. Rambles.NET: Connie Willis, Blackout Connie Willis,īlackout is funny, tense, wacky, zany and extremely entertaining. ![]()
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