Series
Oxford Time Travel
Connie Willis · 4 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 1982–2012
Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events. Doomsday Book sends a medieval historian to what should be 1320 but turns out to be the Black Death year of 1348, intercut with a present-day epidemic at Oxford; To Say Nothing of the Dog returns to the same time-travel program for a lighter, Victorian-set story with different characters. The two novels share their setting and rules rather than a directly continuing plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Blackout (Connie Willis)(3 works)
Map
Oxford Time Travel at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s1
- 1990s2
- 2000s0
- 2010s3
Shape
4 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionsurvivalbritish islesearly 20th centurytenseadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Doomsday Bookdarkest
- To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Lastbrightest · calmest
- Fire Watchmost intense