Book description
For Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest
eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations
against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi
for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first
century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the
rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a
bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of
superstition and fear, Kivrin - barely of age herself - finds she has
become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.
Winner of the Hugo Award 1993
Winner of the Nebula Award 1993
"A tour de force" - New York Times Book Review
"Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsivly readable" - Locus
"It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live
in" - Washington Post Connie Willis (1945 - )
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1945.
Having earned a BA in English and elementary education from the
University of North Colorado, she spent a brief stint in the late 1960s
working as a teacher, until she left to raise her first child. During
this period she began writing SF, with her first publication, 'The
Secret of Santa Titicaca', appearing in Worlds of Fantasy in 1971.
Willis is a highly decorated author and has won, among other accolades,
ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards for work of all lengths: short
stories, novellas, novelettes and novels alike. She was recently named
an SFWA Grand Master. Willis currently lives in Greeley, Colorado with
her family.
