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Katherine Kellgren
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Connie Willis
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Connie Willis
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In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history.
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 17-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 everyones 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.
BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, author Connie Willis discusses her fascination with WWII and the historic context of Blackout.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Blackout is the first volume of a two-part novel. To find out what happens to the time-traveling historians from Oxford, we invite you to download the concluding volume, All Clear.
Listen to Connie Willis and Carrie Vaughn: A Conversation. And listen to All Clear.©2010 Connie Willis (P)2010 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Reseñas de la Crítica
- Nebula Award, Best Novel, 2010
- Hugo Award, Best Novel, 2011
- Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2010: Readers' Choice (SF Site)
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Rob, a professional debunker, is watching yet another performance by a supposed psychic. But as she calls forth the spirit entity known as Isus, another voice suddenly interrupts. And this one is so unexpected and so real, even the hardened skeptic finds he can't help but believe.
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Terrific, but too short
- De Linda en 05-15-08
De: Connie Willis
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Hominids
- The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist Mary Vaughan, promptly identifies and warmly receives Ponter. Solving the language problem and much else is a mini-computer, called a Companion, implanted in the brain of every Neanderthal. But it can't help his fellow scientist back in his world, Adikor Huld, when the authorities charge Adikor with his murder.
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Scicen Fiction Can Be Literature
- De Scott en 08-10-09
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Winds of Marble Arch
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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Tom, an American, is in London for a conference when he begins to experience unusual forces in the Underground. Is it an easily-explained phenomenon - or ghosts from Britain's past?
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Hugo award winner
- De Katherine en 07-09-12
De: Connie Willis
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The Road to Roswell
- A Novel
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky
- Duración: 14 h
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When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. Odder still, her abductor is far from what the popular media have led her to expect, with a body like a tumbleweed and a mass of lightning-fast tentacles. Nor is Francie the only victim of the alien’s abduction spree.
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Connie Willis must be really losing it
- De Mary E Waitrovich en 07-15-23
De: Connie Willis
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The Forever War
- De: Joe Haldeman
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?
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A classic.
- De John en 09-24-08
De: Joe Haldeman
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A Lot Like Christmas
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss, L. J. Ganser, Lori Gardner, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
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No one could ask for a better present than a collection of Connie Willis Christmas tales. These are amazing stories, representing all the best of the Connie Willis experience: true Christmas gifts to her many fans. They are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both send up and embrace many of the best Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare).
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Very, Very Long Stories
- De Dave en 01-18-20
De: Connie Willis
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The Wanderer
- De: Fritz Leiber
- Narrado por: Norman Deitz
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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In the future, men and women have colonized the moon, and dazzling technological advances have created a better life for those on Earth. But the arrival of "the Wanderer" may change all that. A sphere of immense size, it appears suddenly one night during a lunar eclipse, causing crushing quakes on the Moon and catastrophes on Earth. Now, Lt. Don Merriam must find a way to reach the Wanderer and discover its purpose.
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- De finhead en 09-28-07
De: Fritz Leiber
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Camouflage
- De: Joe Haldeman
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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The artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath 40 more feet of sand. The Navy's efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it - and set in motion a scientific race to retrieve it, to discover just what it is and where it came from. Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit they've tried on it and will not budge an inch. It resists every effort to breach it - or communicate with it.
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Loved it!
- De Nathan Caroland en 09-21-08
De: Joe Haldeman
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A Talent for War
- An Alex Benedict Novel
- De: Jack McDevitt
- Narrado por: Gregory Abbey, Jack McDevitt
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war, Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. But now, Alex Benedict has found a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file. If it is true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud.
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Very good - but the cover and title are deceptive
- De Brian en 09-25-10
De: Jack McDevitt
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The Hallowed Hunt
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. The road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
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Extremely disappointing
- De Loren en 10-12-12
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The Big Time
- De: Fritz Leiber
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.
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Big Time takes a long time
- De David en 07-14-08
De: Fritz Leiber
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A Case of Conscience
- De: James Blish
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man - a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics...until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn.
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Moldy Oldie still gets it done
- De Bob V. en 03-22-09
De: James Blish
I want more. I will definitely keep an eye on Connie Willis. I hope by the time I've gotten through her other works she'll have released a new one.
You're in for a wild ride!
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Don't bother
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Wait for the other half; then listen to both
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fantastic!
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A good look at the blitz
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As has been said before:Blackout/All Clear is a very flawed book. Sadly, the issues are largely editorial, ie avoidable. One overlong novel has been divided into two, whereas in fact the author should have been told to cut it by about two hundred pages. I can't remember when I last read a book that had so much redundancy. There are also stupid errors good editing should have picked up, such as Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" being called by its original American title of "Murder in the Calais Coach" (it was never called this in the UK); and constant mistakes concerning the differences between English and American usage. By the way, I am not even English but Australian; if I can pick up that a supposedly English character is talking like an American, then heaven help people in the UK. Nor does Connie Willis really grasp the subtleties of the British class system. One example will suffice: the character of Merope, pretending to be a servant, develops a romantic friendship with a young local clergyman. With due respect to the clergy, it is almost inconceivable that in 1940 a university educated Anglican priest would have become friends with an Irish maid, or had anything more than a strictly pastoral relationship with such a person. People just did not cross those sort of educational and class boundaries with the ease that they do now--even in wartime.
With regards to the narration, Katherine Kellgren is adequate. She has some very annoying vocal mannerisms, including some tortuous dipthongs and a rising inflection that nearly drove me crazy. But I did listen to it all the way through, so it was not quite a washout in the end.
Blackout/Washout; 3.5 stars
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engrossing
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I enjoyed every minute of it.
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Yes, it is two-parts and I will download more
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If you are looking for fast paced action thriller - go elsewhere...but if you are looking for something that draws you in, gets you involved with the characters, the feeling of the times, and pulls you along and along - then this is for you. (Although having written that, there IS tension, there ARE explosions and there is real action) .
I really like Connie Willis and I like her style. I have read her hardcopy books before, but I really like listening to the audible books - the accents, the characterizations seem to really bring it to life for me. Not boring it all. But I can imagine that its not everyone's cup of tea......
Connie Willis is an American, but writes about the Oxford based time travelers with a particular focus on the 1940's England and the sensibilities and habits of those times. I think that if you are a bit of an anglophile, a Masterpiece theater period show kind of person - you will like this dramatization. I know I did and as soon as my credits were available (I have a monthly subscription) downloaded the "All Clear Book" as I did not want a break from the story!
Although Connie Willis is a science fiction author -the story is more about fitting into the social manners of the times - the Blitz, working in shop on Oxford street, the protocol of the air raid shelters, etc. Quite entertaining.
Very Enjoyable
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