[JenB]

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Doomsday, besides being the end of the world, is shorthand for "Doomsday Book", a great, touching, wonderful novel by Connie Willis (salaams in awe), the best writer doing SF today, IMHO. I just got Rosie to read it. It's one of the few books I rank higher than LotR.

[Fedora]

It's one of the few books I rank higher than LotR.

Blasphemy! I'm not listening:

Seriously, if anybody else said that I wouldn't take it seriously, but given you're a fellow LotR fanatic there must be something to it. I will have to read that. Can you describe what it's about in a nutshell without giving away the plot?

[RosieCotton]

I was going to ask you...I had someone recommend a series by an author called L.E. Modesitt Jr. Anything you've heard of? I'm kinda leery of series books...a lot of 'em tend to be pretty lousy. But I thought I'd ask...