Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

by Connie Willis

“Explain! Perhaps you’d like to explain it to me, too. I’m not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. 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.

Is God there, too, I wonder, but shut off from us by something worse than time, unable to get through, unable to find us?