To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis’ Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other.

In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat.When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned’s holiday anything but restful – to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardise the entire course of history.