![]() ![]() Before going on further trips Ned must recuperate from his time lag and is sent to the hospital. She has conscripted most of Oxford's history department to rebuild the cathedral exactly as it was before it was destroyed. The Bishop's bird stump is needed for a restoration of the cathedral funded by Lady Schrapnell, a wealthy American neo-aristocratic woman with a will of iron. ![]() ![]() He returns, unsuccessful, to his time, 2057, at Oxford University. The narrator shows confusion explained by "time-lag", the time-travel-induced form of jet lag. He is specifically searching for the location of the "Bishop's bird stump", a MacGuffin that is not defined by the narrator. Ned Henry is a time traveler in 1940 studying Coventry Cathedral after the Coventry Blitz of World War II. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog." Heinlein, who, in Have Space Suit-Will Travel, first introduced me to Jerome K. The book's title is inspired by the subtitle of an 1889 classic work, as explained by the author in the dedication: To Say Nothing of the Dog won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1998. It uses the same setting, including time-traveling historians, which Willis explored in Fire Watch (1982), Doomsday Book (1992), and Blackout/All Clear (2010). To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis. ![]()
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