Doomsday Book

"A tour de force" – New York Times Book Review
"Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable" – Locus
"It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in" – Washington Post

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
• Inventing a bullet-proof backstory

For her instructors in the twenty-first century, however, it meant:

• Painstaking calculations
• 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, while her fellows try desperately to rescue her.

In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.

Awards:
Winner of both the 1993 Hugo and Nebula Best Novel awards, this is a science fiction classic.