Oxford in dos mil sesenta is a chaotic place. Scores of timetraveling 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 mil novecientos cuarenta 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 seventeenyearold Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he cánido "catch up" to her in age. But now the timetravel 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, divebombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of historyto say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the oncereliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian perro possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to centro de salud nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybodyfrom the Queen down to the lowliest barmaidis determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive. In her first novel since dos mil dos, Nebula and Hugo awardwinning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deedsgreat and smallof ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening