(June 12, 2015 at 7:59 pm)Jenny A Wrote: If we were in a Connie Willis novel, the children of 2060, at least those who were historians, would be here visiting us from Oxford from time to time (pun intended) pretending to be us contemporaries. But responding to this thread would blow their cover so they wouldn't. If nothing else, time travel would certainly change the profession of historian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout/All_Clear Concerning the children of 2060 getting stuck in the Blitz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Book_%28novel%29 Concerning the children of 2060 discovering the dark ages were dangerous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog Concerning the children of 2060 bumping around a Wodehouse like English landscape discovering that the butler did indeed do it.
I'd never even heard of these novels! I'm heading to the library tomorrow...now they are on my list of books to check out and read together with my daughter. Thanks.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
