To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Coventry BlitzSpooks, BBC television series. In one episode, the Churchill/Coventry myth is repeated to justify allowing a known bomb to detonate. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis. An Oxford time-travel laboratory sends a team to pre-blitz... In this article: Coventry, Winston Churchill, F. W. Winterbotham, Second World War, Luftwaffe, Bletchley Park, Enigma, R. V. Jones, Babylon 5, and Coventry Cathedral |
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Coventry Cathedral
...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
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
To Say Nothing of the Dog
...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
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Wikipedia | October 24, 2009
Three Men in a Boat
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
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Wikipedia | September 20, 2009
Three in Norway (by two of them)
...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
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Wikipedia | June 16, 2009
Fire Watch (story)
...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
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SCI FI Wire | April 02, 2009
Willis, Whelan and others to enter SF Museum Hall of Fame
...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...
In this article: Michael Whelan, Hugo Award, Connie Willis, Frank R. Paul, Edward L. Ferman, The Science Fiction Museum, Chesley Awards, Nebula Awards, Incarnations of Immortality, and Elric
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Ars Technica | November 25, 2008
Microsoft: Cyberchondria disrupting people's lives
...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...
In this article: Microsoft, Cyberchondria, Chest pain, Hypoglycemia, Jerome K. Jerome, Skin disease, Wikipedia, Cancer, Caffeine, and Anxiety
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2008
57th World Science Fiction Convention
...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
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Rocky Mountain News | September 29, 2008
A Dozen on Denver: Interview with author Connie Willis
...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
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Salon | January 16, 2008
Review: The Winds of Marble Arch, by Connie Willis Salon Books
...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
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To Say Nothing of the Dog, or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comedic science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It takes place in the same universe of time-traveling historians she explored in her Doomsday Book, however, the tone is much lighter -- extrapolated from the classic book Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, whose original subtitle it borrows for its own title.
To Say Nothing of the Dog won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1999. It was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1998.
- Name:
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Genre:
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- Science fiction
- Comedy
- Written By:
- Connie Willis
- Published By:
- Bantam Books
- Length:
- 434 pp
- Media Type:
- Print (Paperback)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 1997
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