Fortunately for all of our historians, it turns out Mr.
By killing all the time travellers, and everyone with whom they have had contact. Dunworthy joins Polly and Eileen in the past, he has bad news: he fears he has doomed them all, because he altered events on his first trip to the Blitz, when he was only seventeen years old, and now the continuum is trying to repair itself. Connie Willis doesn't actually explain the rules to us, only hints at them, and determining what "type" of universe our Oxford historians inhabit becomes central to the plot of All Clear.
This generally depends on the rules the author sets up. Time travel to the past inevitably raises the spectre of altering the past, and specifically whether one can change the outcome of events that have "already" happened. … time travel creates a headache for those of us mired in the swamps of linear time, and inevitably, time travel stories demonstrate why it's a good thing we don't have to comprehend paradoxes in real life.Īnd now, the conclusion to Kara's reviews of Blackout/All Clear:
Willis leaves us wondering if this interpretation is true, or if there is something else happening, and I admit I want to know the answer. Slippage is a safety mechanism, then, of the universe, and time travellers shouldn't be able to alter the past. … all the characters in this book are ninnies … They complain about the retrieval team not showing up and they lie to each other and keep secrets to avoid "worrying" each other unnecessarily. Unfortunately, Willis attempts to sustain that suspense entirely too long… … there's a very palpable, somewhat ironic fear here, because in a way these three are more frightened of the Blitz than the stalwart contemporaries (or "contemps" as the historians call them).… So for a moment, there's a justifiable and interesting suspense.
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