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Doomsday Book

Name: Doomsday Book
Author: Connie Willis

Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards. The title of the book refers to the Domesday Book of 1086; Kivrin Engle, the main character, says that her recording is "a record of life in the Middle Ages, which is what William the Conqueror's survey turned out to be."The novel is the first in a series about the Oxford time-traveling historians, which includes To Say Nothing of the Dog and Blackout/All Clear .

“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.”

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Source: Doomsday Book

““The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?”
“God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.”
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.”

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 496)

“Nobody deserves this. “Please,” she prayed, and wasn’t sure what she asked.
Whatever it was, it was not granted.”

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 498)

““They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?” Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.””

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)

“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 326)

“It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.”

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 320)

“It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.”

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 506)

“Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.”

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Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 35 (p. 563)

“They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?”

Connie Willis book Doomsday Book

Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)