Reddit reviews Doomsday Book

Oh gosh it's been a long time since I read this book, but I recall that The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (a sci fi author who has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards) deals with this. I believe the main character has something go awry with her translation software as she travels back to England in the dark ages and has to learn the language. Her mastery of the language isn't the central plot point but it's important to the story. I thought it was a great book!

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Connie Willis is a great sci-fi author. Doomsday Book is a great place to start.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Time travel, yay!

The Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis is a classic.

It has a quite revisionist (i.e. biased) take on Richard III, but The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman is my go-to recommendation. She has clearly put a lot of research into it, and the characters really come to life.

Also, Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Meticulously researched historical fiction, time travel, and plague! What more could one ask for?

Connie Willis has some great books where time travelers are main characters:

Doomsday Book

Blackout

All Clear

The most recent one I read (book, not a series,) was Jack McDevitt's Time Travelers Never Die, which was entertaining. Oh yeah, I also read Connis Willis' Blackout and All Clear. There's also The Doomsday Book, which I haven't read yet. I read To Say Nothing of the Dog when it was released, and didn't really love it, but I think I need to re-read it. Stephen Baxter's Manifold series is great, including Manifold: Time.

Check out the books on this list.

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. I'm a fan of time-travel, and history, and I was completely sucked into it. She's got a number of books in the same universe- some comedic, some very dramatic, but The Doomsday Book is my favourite.

If you're at all interested in high fantasy, I'd recommend either Tigana or The Fionovar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. You either love his prose style or hate it, but if you love it, it will definitely take you away.

If you like SF and haven't read them, I'd try either Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos, or David Brin's Uplift Series (I'd skip Sundiver until later, and start with Startide Rising.)

If you're looking for more light-hearted/quirky, I'd try Christopher Moore- either Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal , or The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror. If you're into a mix of horror/sf/comedy, try John Dies at the End. They're not deep, but they're fun.

Non-fiction- if you haven't read it yet, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is very difficult to put down. If you're travelling with someone who doesn't mind you looking up every few pages and saying "did you know this, this is awesome, wow-how interesting", I'd go for Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants or Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life. They're all very informative, fun, interesting books, but they're even better if you can share them while you're reading them.

I really liked the "Oxford time-traveling historians" series by Connie Willis.

At some point in the near future, time-traveling is discovered, but is basically only used by historians to do field work in the past. They are meant to be taken seriously, but do use humor. The books in the series are only loosely connected, so you don't need to read them in order. But if you want to, the first is Doomsday Book

If you liked Pillars of the Earth, you'd love The Domesday Book

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Amazon Link for description

All I can think of is Doomsday Book, about a modern college-age woman who ends up in 14th century France during the black plague

http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Book-Connie-Willis/dp/0553562738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331243561&sr=8-1

Came here to say this. Connie Willis has a series of tremendous science fiction books about time travelling women.

My two favorite from that series are The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, which is the best light-hearted sci-fi I've ever read.

Should be an interesting read. One of my favourites is still Connie Willis' The Doomsday Book, so this should be interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is phenomenal.

I also really enjoyed Summer of Love by Lisa Mason

Wait, do you mean this Doomsday Book? Because that was SF mainly set in the past. And I enjoyed it very much.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. A historian gets sent back in time to study the middle ages and gets stuck there.