Kelsey answers “I've read Connie Willis' take on the same...”

Elisabeth asked this question about Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St. Mary’s, #1):

I've read Connie Willis' take on the same concept, much of which is masterful. Would this merely pale in comparison? What are its own strengths?

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 D…moreDoomsday 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. (less)

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