SF Masterworks Doomsday Book

Gollancz, 2012. Paperback. Like New. For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in huma nity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alo ne. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking c alculations 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 a ge 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 a ngel of hope during one of history's darkest hours. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.