5/10/2023 0 Comments Connie willis doomsday book review![]() ![]() Readers considering buying All Clear may wonder whether they can do so without first reading Blackout. ![]() ![]() Living as we now do in the age of Kindle makes this excuse, it seems to me, rather harder to justify than might otherwise be the case. But we were told that Blackout and All Clear aren't two novels, but one novel chainsawed down the middle to accommodate the exigencies of commercial publishing. Some grumbled that giving the "best novel" prize to two books wasn't fair. The joint winners were Connie Willis's Blackout and Connie Willis's All Clear – the two halves of a lengthy narrative about time-travelling historians from 2060 in London during the second world war. T his year Connie Willis shared SF's blue riband prize, the Hugo, with herself. ![]()
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