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Time TravelHistorical Fiction

Blackout

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  • 2010 first published
  • 528 pages
  • ★ 3.9 (13 ratings)
  • 15 editions
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Blackout is a 2010 time-travel fiction and historical fiction novel by Connie Willis. Readers will find themes of time travel, Research, England and historians.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, and 42 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 15 editions.

It runs to roughly 528 pages — 9–10 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Blackout

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. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide--and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.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 seventeen-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 everyone's 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.
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Themes, setting & tropes

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  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Time travel
  • Research
  • Historical Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • World war, 1939-1945
  • Suspense
  • England
  • Historians
  • World War, 1939-1945 cct
  • Historical
  • Hugo Award Winner
  • American Science fiction
  • American Fantasy fiction

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Quick answers

Who wrote Blackout?

Blackout was written by Connie Willis and first published in 2010.

What genre is Blackout?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel and Historical Fiction.

How long is Blackout?

The median edition has 528 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Blackout?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dragonfly in Amber, Outlander and The Invisible Man.

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