In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the
time-traveling future of 2060-the setting for several of her most
celebrated works-and sent three Oxford historians to World War II
England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the
Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from
London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of
the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940,
they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as
Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into
submission.
Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in
the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have
somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The
belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always
been a core belief of time-travel theory-but suddenly it seems that
the theory is horribly, tragically wrong.
Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor, Mr.
Dunworthy, and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who nurses a
powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly
impossible struggle of their own-to find three missing needles in
the haystack of history.
Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and
devastating, All Clear is more than just the triumphant culmination
of the adventure that began with Blackout. It's Connie
Willis's most humane, heartfelt novel yet-a clear-eyed
celebration of faith, love, and the quiet, ordinary acts of heroism
and sacrifice too often overlooked by history.
Connie Willis, geboren 1945 in Denver, gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Science-Fiction-Autorinnen weltweit. Für ihre Werke wurde sie bereits mehrfach mit dem Hugo- und dem Nebula-Award ausgezeichnet. Die Autorin lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter in Colorado.
