![]() ![]() ![]() 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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