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Kelsey
Doomsday Book isn't really the right comparison for this one - I was actually shocked at how many similarities this book and " To Say Nothing of the Dog" had in common, from the madcap tone, right down to the big revelation about time travel at the end <spoiler> Which is of course, that you can recover historical artifacts that will have been destroyed. They literally even give the same lists of artifacts that they want to go after, and in almost the same order. The specific plot details between the two are different, but there is a HUGE amount of world building in Taylor's book that echos Willis very closely </spoiler> Willis spends more time with the historians and their actions in the past, while Taylor focuses more on the drama of the time travel organization itself.
Sara
Yep, it pales in comparison.
Maggie
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis & Jodi Taylor's St Mary's Chronicles are both about historians going back to experience History in 'real' time but they are very different in the way they are told. I absolutely love both of their series of books
Samantha Stinson Brockman
Taylor clearly used Willis’ book as a template, and rewrote them in her own way. The tone may be different between the two books, Kelsey, but Taylor’s book is not original.
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