The diptych won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2011 Locus Award.

The second part, the conclusion All Clear, was released as a separate book on October 19, 2010. To find out the conclusion of Blackout, the author invites readers to read her next novel, All Clear. Blackout and All Clear are the two volumes that constitute a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. By the end of the novel, three of the historians are collectively working together to try to figure out how to get from 1940s England back to 2060 Oxford. Each believes that something is wrong with their area of the time travel net and so they each try to find one of the other historians. One by one, each of the historians finds themselves stuck in time travel in 1940s England. Polly is studying the shop girls working on Oxford Street during the War and the citizens that take shelter underground in the tube stations during the war.Įverything is fine until an unexpected obstacle prohibits each character to be picked up the lab in Oxford to bring them back from history into the present of 2060. Michael Davies is studying normal citizens that become heroes in certain situations, such as the civilians during one of the battles during World War II. Eileen studies the evacuees or the children sent from London to the outskirts of England to keep them safe from the war. The primary characters of the novel are primarily studying the different aspects of World War II. Dunworthy, has to approve each historian's travel because he won't allow them near any dangerous situations, especially after one of the historians is killed while on assignment. It's 2060 and these historians get to study history first hand by traveling back in time to the events and time periods they wish to study. The story follows a series of historians that are studying history at Oxford University.

We have assigned the award nominations to Blackout, the first of the two volumes, so that we list the same number of awards as Connie Willis has statues on her mantle. Blackout is a novel by the award-winning author Connie Willis. Note: Blackout and All Clear are regarded as being a single large book split into two volumes for award purposes.

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