literary question

[cellio]

I have a Three Weird Sisters CD with a haunting song on it that, according to the liner notes, is based on Connie Willis's Doomsday Book. Ok, I should read the book -- Hugo and Nebula winner probably means good stuff. And one of these days I will, but for now, I'm curious about one plot detail that's ambiguous in the song.

Did the time-traveller cause the Black Death?

Comments

[ellipticcurve.livejournal.com]

No, but she's stuck in it. A great way to approach the book, IMHO, is to consider the question: If you had the chance to go back in time, knowing that you could not change anything, would you still go?

(Also IMHO--her comic novel To Say Nothing Of The Dog, set in the same world, is a better book.)