Tag: in Connie Willis’s fictional future St. Paul’s got blown up by a terrorist bomb in the 2000s and I fretted about that as much as if it were true

Okay then, Connie Willis. Maybe we can be friends after all. Maybe. Connie Willis writes books about Oxford historians who practice their historianship by going time traveling in their period of interest. I read The Doomsday Book a while ago, and did not care for it because I was bored by the characters, and I hate the Black Death, which is the protagonist historian’s period of interest. Yawn. I regretted not liking it better, because the premise felt like gold. Time-traveling and academics at Oxford? Gold. Blackout has been garnering rave reviews all over the place, with warnings about the…