Dr. Antoinette Sol
Presented to The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries on the occasion of Promotion to Professor, Dr. Antoinette Sol, Modern Languages, Fall 2016.
Item(s) added to the Libraries' collection:
Dooms-day book
Willis, C. (1994). Dooms-day book (Bantam reissue ed.). New York: Bantam Books.
Connie Willis is a Nebula and Hugo award winning writer who work fills me with joy. I find the idea of time-traveling academics hard to resist. In addition, Connie Willis’ novels and short stories, filled with adventure and contretemps, are based on the ethics of friendship, family, and community. I find her works, in general, filled with compassion, but this one particularly so. The characters in this novel find themselves in horribly difficult situations in which they could have tried to save themselves but, instead, they chose to help others. Here characters make the reader want to be a better person. I highly recommend this novel as well as the others.