In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060,
the setting for several of her most celebrated works, and sent three Oxford historians to World
War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope
Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the
middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not
only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into
submission.

Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in the historical record seem
to indicate that one or all of them have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the
war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief
of time-travel theory, but suddenly it seems that the theory is horribly, tragically wrong.

Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor, Mr. Dunworthy, and 17-year-old Colin
Templer, who nurses a powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible
struggle of their own - to find three missing needles in the haystack of history.

Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and devastating, All Clear is more
than just the triumphant culmination of the adventure that began with Blackout. It's Connie
Willis' most humane, heartfelt novel yet - a clear-eyed celebration of faith, love, and the
quiet, ordinary acts of heroism and sacrifice too often overlooked by history.

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