Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

by Connie Willis

Fretting doesn’t work properly unless one can visualize disasters in all their particulars, including the weather and the time of day.

In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.” And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought.

Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.