![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), a humorous account of the author’s two-week holiday on the river Thames. The plot revolves around Ned’s efforts to rectify a disruption in the time continuum that occurred when a fellow historian rescued a drowning cat in the Victorian Era and brought her back to the twenty-first century. To Say Nothing of the Dog tells the story of Ned Henry, a historian from Oxford University in the year 2057 who is part of a team attempting to reconstruct to the last detail the Coventry Cathedral as it was before its destruction during the WWII Nazi Blitz. ![]() These narratives detail the adventures of historians who take advantage of the development of time travel for research purposes. Willis has written two other novels- Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear-and a short story, “Fire Watch” that take place in the To Say Nothing of the Dog universe. It also received a nomination for the Nebula Award in 1998. Published in 1997, To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last is a comedic science fiction novel by American novelist Connie Willis. ![]()
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