To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last
- by Connie Willis
- Novel
- Science Fiction, Comedy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (Easton Press, 1998).
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: second destination time in 1888
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: destination time period, beginning on 15 November 1940
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: starting time period, 2057
- Timeline Models
- Unexplained Timeline Model: It’s unclear whether the net prevents new timelines altogether.
- Themes
- Chronology Protection Conjecture: The net either rejects any travel that could cause a paradox or injects a time slippage large enough to avoid the paradox.
- Language Difficulties: Initially, Kivrin’s translater had problems.
- Synchronized Time
- Time Corps
- Time Historians
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: They call it “time-lag.”
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- Groupings
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- To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis (Easton Press, 1998).