I can't get the train of thought out of my head. The novel is that powerful' Goodreads reviewer, 'I can't stop thinking about Doomsday Book. Read what everyone is saying about Doomsday Book: 'By the time I finished the book, I had the feeling I also spent time living with these medieval men, women and children. Winner of both the 1993 Hugo and Nebula Best Novel awards, this is a science fiction classic. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. "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 and inventing a bullet-proof backstory.
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