Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis · 1 Jan 1992 · 741pp · 208,654 words
Praise for Connie Willis’s HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD WINNING DOOMSDAY BOOK: “Splendid work—brutal, gripping, and genuinely harrowing, the product of diligent research, fine writing, and well-honed instincts, that should appeal far beyond the usual
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character alive in that year is a fully realized being.… It becomes possible to feel … that Connie Willis did, in fact, over the five years DOOMSDAY BOOK took her to write, open a window to another world, and that she saw something there.” —The Washington Post Book World “A splendid job … intense
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, Minneapolis “The clarity and consistency of Willis’s writing, as well as her deft storytelling ability, place her among this decade’s most promising writers.… [Doomsday Book] rates special attention.” —Library Journal “An intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction.” —Publishers Weekly “An ambitious, finely detailed, and compulsively
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readable novel.” —Locus Bantam Books by Connie Willis DOOMSDAY BOOK FIRE WATCH LINCOLN’S DREAMS IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BELLWETHER REMAKE UNCHARTED TERRITORY TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG MIRACLE AND OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES PASSAGE BLACKOUT This
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edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition. NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED. DOOMSDAY BOOK A Bantam Spectra Book/July 1992 PUBLISHING HISTORY Bantam paperback edition / September 1993 Bantam reissue edition/July 1994 SPECTRA and the portrayal of a boxed
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than any other science fiction writer), six Hugo Awards, and for her first novel, Lincoln’s Dreams, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other works
The Road to Roswell: A Novel
by Connie Willis · 26 Jun 2023 · 483pp · 127,095 words
All Clear Blackout All Seated on the Ground D.A. Inside Job Passage To Say Nothing of the Dog Bellwether Uncharted Territory Remake Impossible Things Doomsday Book Lincoln’s Dreams Fire Watch ABOUT THE AUTHOR Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of
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of America. She has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for her fiction; Blackout and All Clear—a novel in two parts—and Doomsday Book won both. Her other works include Crosstalk, Passage, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Terra Incognita, The Best of
State of Emergency: The Way We Were
by Dominic Sandbrook · 29 Sep 2010 · 932pp · 307,785 words
to a title that must have struck fear into the souls of all who read it. Written by the science journalist Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Doomsday Book begins ominously with a long quotation from the Book of Revelation. On the very next page, Taylor warns his readers that mankind is facing an
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extremes. For some people, however, growing one’s own vegetables and saving on electricity were not enough: as Gordon Rattray Taylor had shown in The Doomsday Book, the situation was so desperate that only collective action could stave off disaster. One such group were the members of the Conservation Society, which had
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), p. 207; Michael Frayn, ‘Festival’, in Michael Sissons and Philip French (eds.), Age of Austerity (Oxford, 1963), pp. 307–8. 8. Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Doomsday Book: Can the World Survive? (London, 1970), pp. 13–14, 17, 52–3, 59–61, 229, 275. 9. Philip Lowe and Jane Goyder, Environmental Groups in
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on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies (London, 1985), pp. 251–2, 394. 14. Robert Colls, Identity of England (Oxford, 2002), p. 350; Taylor, The Doomsday Book, p. 49; Des Wilson, The Environmental Crisis (London, 1984), pp. 41, 43; James, The Middle Class, p. 485; Whitehead, The Writing on the Wall, p
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
by Timothy F. Geithner · 11 May 2014 · 593pp · 189,857 words
awesome powers to fight financial fires, but when I studied our actual firefighting equipment—cataloged in a New York Fed binder known internally as “the Doomsday Book”—I was not particularly impressed. In addition to its monetary policy instruments, the Fed could lend to institutions that needed cash in a crisis—but
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housing market dropped and recession fears mounted. But there was one piece of better news. Tom Baxter, our general counsel, taking a page from the Doomsday Book, the binder full of information about the New York Fed’s emergency powers that he had helped write years earlier, proposed an idea that could
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
by Jeremy Lent · 22 May 2017 · 789pp · 207,744 words
have included prominent statesmen such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Václav Havel, and Pierre Trudeau. See http://www.clubofrome.org/membership/ (accessed June 24, 2016). Debora MacKenzie, “Doomsday Book,” New Scientist, no. 2846 (2012): 38–41; Graham M. Turner, “A Comparison of The Limits to Growth with 30 Years of Reality,” Global Environmental Change
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: The 30-Year Update (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2004), Kindle edition, locations 408–13. 3. MacKenzie, “Doomsday Book”; Turner, “Comparison”; Meadows, Randers, and Meadows, 30-Year Update, locs. 3021–31. 4. MacKenzie, “Doomsday Book”; Turner, “Comparison”; Meadows, Randers, and Meadows, 30-Year Update, locs. 3492–3503. 5. See Paul Raskin et al
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Diaz · 10 Sep 2012
, when you feel like you can do so without blowing into burning atoms, you open a folder you have kept hidden under your bed. The Doomsday Book. Copies of all the e-mails and fotos from the cheating days, the ones the ex found and compiled and mailed to you a month
Firefighting
by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson, Jr. · 16 Apr 2019
weak and antiquated arsenal of emergency weapons we had to fight it. When Tim started at the New York Fed in 2003, he read its “Doomsday Book” outlining its break-the-glass emergency powers, and he wasn’t impressed. Ben had a similar experience when he became Fed chairman in 2006 and
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crises, 34, 35 dividends, 41 Dodd, Christopher, 56, 79–80 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 113–16, 120–21, 127, 172 “Doomsday Book,” 118 dot-com bubble, 21 Dugan, John, 91 E. coli effect, 31, 42 economic output, 207 Economic Stimulus Act, 185 electronic banking, 15 Emergency Economic
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by Julian Guthrie · 19 Sep 2016
vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.” The image would play a role in doomsday books by the likes of Paul Ehrlich and bleak scenarios by the Limits to Growth researchers. It inspired the modern environmental movement. What Byron said resonated
Time Travel: A History
by James Gleick · 26 Sep 2016 · 257pp · 80,100 words
. Jules Verne, Paris au XXe siècle, 1863. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895. The Sleeper Awakes, 1910. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book, 1992. Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928. Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, 2010. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Back to the
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by Alan Rusbridger · 14 Oct 2018 · 579pp · 160,351 words
. That’s right: it was produced entirely by machines. Not one human being was involved in the generation of this modern, news version of the Doomsday Book. It was all produced by a cyber spider which whisked its way around the world filtering news sites and linking to them. Quite how it
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