The book starts slowly, deceptively gently, at least for Kivrin. While he fights university bureaucracy and illness to try and locate her, his favourite pupil is unaware she has been dropped into the middle of what will swiftly become a holocaust. Only her tutor and father-figure, Mr Dunworthy, suspects that something is amiss. There is no one to even realise Kivrin’s drop has gone wrong, let alone get her back.
In 2054, a savage strain of influenza cuts through Oxford, wiping out most of the History faculty, including everyone operating the time travel device. An error in the programming sends PHD student Kivrin Engle back, not to her anticipated date of 1320, but instead to 1348, the year of the Black Death.įrom here the story unfolds in parallel. First published in 1992, the book is set in 2054, when scientists at Oxford University are beginning to unravel the secrets of time travel.
Please be aware that this review contains spoilers.ĭoomsday Book is widely regarded as an SF classic, the first book in the acclaimed Oxford Time Travel series.
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