To Say Nothing of the Dog: A novel of the Oxford Time Travel series

Connie Willis

Nov 2009 · Sold by Bantam

About this ebook

“Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel.

Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the twenty-first century and the 1940s in search of a hideous Victorian vase called “the bishop’s bird stump” as part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid.

But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but also to prevent altering history itself.

Ratings and reviews

A confusing yet entertaining and intelligent book about Fate, cats (ironically) (well there is one dog) and love and time travel. There are books that are a quick read through and others that make you stop and think every once and a while. "To Say Nothing of the Dog" definitely leans toward the latter. The dialogue and train of thought was very scattered all over the place to a comic effect but if you paid close attention you were still able to follow the plot ( mostly). I would recommend it to others, a good science fiction that doesn't feel the need to go in depth technically but philosophically (is that the right word?)

Wonderfulness

Pretty good. Lots of little plot twists. The story kept going beyond where one would expect it to conclude, kind of like a bonus. Characters developed well.

About the author

Connie Willis has won six Nebula and Six Hugo Awards (more than any other science fiction writer) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln’s Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other works include Bellwether, Impossible Things, Remake, and Uncharted Territory. Ms. Willis lives in Greeley, Colorado, with her family.