Oxford Historians 2

To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last

by Connie Willis

• Release: 1998
• Format: Novel
• Genres: Science Fiction, Comedy
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

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.”

Real-World Tags

• Air Raids (`)
• Coventry Blitz (`)
• World War II

Groupings

• Oxford Historians (story series): 2
• Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY

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