[Fedora]

Huh, interesting take. See, for me it actually gave me a different perspective on Doomsday Book that gave me a deeper apppreciation for the characters and technology and themes there. Also, I like studying WWII so I thought that was interesting in its own right. I guess maybe that just reflects my idiosyncracies as a reader. Anyway, I will try to get ahold of Bellwether and To Say Nothing of the Dog--what are those about?

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[JenB]

Bellwether is about trends research, sheep, Pied Pipers, smoking nazis, lattes, barbies, and True Love. No time travel.

To Say Nothing of the Dog is comic time travel to the Victorian era. Also the the Blitz and a couple other spots. Lady Schrapnel has decided to restore Coventry Cathedral to its original glory and is making time travellers research it for her, and the hero's job is to find out what happened to the Bishop's Bird Stump, an exquisite example of Victorian art. It also involved time paradoxes, the unravelling of the space-time continuum, Enigma, why Napoleon lost at Waterloo, croquet, jumble sales, literary references, and True Love. Oh, and absent-minded dons, lovestruck Oxford students, boating the Thames, and the cat. To say nothing of the dog.

Sigh... I love that book. I laugh aloud every time I read it.

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