To Say Nothing of the Dog

...BBC documentary on Coventry Cathedral, its destruction and rebuilding, narrated by Leo Genn, was broadcast on British television. To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997), a Hugo Award-winning novel by Connie Willis, centres around an effort to...

In this article: Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, Basil Spence, God, World War II, Bishop of Coventry, and Berlin

...place in the same universe of time-traveling historians she explored in her story ''Fire Watch '' and novel ''Doomsday Book ''. To Say Nothing of the Dog won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999, and was nominated for the Nebula Award...

In this article: Time travel and Dog

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,...

In this article: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, Dog, River Thames, and Connie Willis

...the steps of the "Three in Norway" over 100 years later. It served at an inspiration for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames...

In this article: Norway, Ptarmigan, Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, Oxford, and Thames

...in her 1984 short-story collection also titled Fire Watch . The idea of a time-travelling history department at Oxford University, introduced in this story, was also used in her later novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog.

In this article: Fire Watch, Nebula Award, The Blitz, Hugo Award, Oxford University, Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, St. Paul's Cathedral, and London

...Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. Connie Willis is the author of the Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog. She has won 10 Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Check the Science Fiction...

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...is nothing new; it was put to great comic effect in the opening pages of Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), for instance, in which the narrator concludes he has every disease from gout...

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...in Melbourne, Australia on September 2-6, 1999. The convention was held in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Best Novel: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis Best Novella: ""Oceanic" by Greg Egan (Asimov's, August...

In this article: The Truman Show and Melbourne

...awards, as much fun as they are - and I'm the first to admit they're really fun. * Connie Willis is the author of Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Passage, Bellwether and many other novels. Her most recent publication is The...

In this article: Connie Willis, Denver, Nebula Award, Best of all possible worlds, Reactionary, Global warming, Alex Award, Hamlet, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and Hugo Awards

...a long story set during the Blitz, continues the conceit at the heart of two of Willis' best-known novels, "Doomsday Book" and "To Say Nothing of the Dog": In a future Oxford, historians are sent back in time to do fieldwork. Instead of the...

In this article: Connie Willis, Gordon Lish, Raymond Carver, Laura Miller, Waste, Golden Retriever, Even the Queen, Hamlet, and Fire Watch