To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel Series)

Several summers ago, I rented a cabin in the Catskills for a weekend. It was perched on a hill in middle of nowhere—the nearest grocery store was 15 miles away and staffed by very suspicious locals—and decorated in high rustic style, with musty wool blankets and lamps made out of antlers. Best of all, it had a record […]

In the early 1990s, Connie Willis published Doomsday Book, a captivating and thoroughly researched novel about an Oxford historian from the year 2054 traveling in time to the Middle Ages (and, inadvertently, running smack dab into the Plague). The author’s recreation of the past is rich in period detail and verisimilitude, from the way the Britons […]

Among seasoned readers of science fiction, Connie Willis needs no introduction—toss a baseball through one of her windows, and chances are good it’s going to knock over a Hugo Award or two. But with Crosstalk, her first new novel in six years, she’s making a strong bid for readers who have never picked up sci-fi before: it’s […]

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