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	Domesday Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror.
		From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it is known that the planning for the survey was conducted in 1085, and from the colophon of the book it is known that the survey was completed in 1086.
		Domesday Book was originally preserved in the royal treasury at Winchester (the Norman kings' capital).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doomsday_Book (2006 words)

	Doomsday Book by Connie Willis - Book
		Doomsday Book begins in Oxford in a future where time travel is used for historical research.
		This is a book about two very different societies, about how each responds to an approaching crisis and how society in the 21st century can find itself just as helpless in the face of a natural disaster as society in the 14th.
		The Doomsday book promises, by its provocative cover blurb "to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit." What it does, rather, is explore the many limitations and cheap devices of a mediocre novelist and her apparent lack of editor: an ageless problem in itself.
	www.sffworld.com /book/2430.html (768 words)

	Stan Rubenstein / The Domesday [Doomsday] Book
		The Domesday Book looms large in the history of kings because it represented final authority and the last word in assessing procedure.
		William I, sailing in 1066 from the Province of Normandy across the English Channel, defeated the forces of Harold of Saxony in the Battle of Hastings.
		At the time of the survey, twenty years after the invasion, the Domesday Book exposed this relationship which was both derivative and dependent in nature.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /rubenstein-stan_doomsday-book.html (548 words)

	The Domesday Book Online - Home
		The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066.
		The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time).
		The original Domesday Book has survived over 900 years of English history and is currently housed in a specially made chest at London's Public Record Office in Kew, London.
	www.domesdaybook.co.uk (178 words)

	Refracted Light: Doomsday Book
		In this remarkable and moving book, Connie Willis describes two societies -- our own modern world in the not-too-distant future, and the mediaeval world of the 14th century -- as they respond to plague epidemics which threaten to destroy their very way of life.
		In her portrayal of the mediaeval world, the author drew me in and completely convinced me. I don't know much about the details of this era in history, not being a historian myself, but Willis must have thoroughly researched her subject.
		Christian imagery is used for artistic purposes throughout the book.
	pax-romana.net /refracted/doomsdaybook.html (682 words)

	Doomsday Book - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		THE DOOMSDAY BOOK; A shocking new report reveals that man has destroyed a third of the world's natural resources in just 25 years.
		Doomsday Books Sell Well, But Accuracy May Fall Short.
		The dunces of doomsday; 10 blunders that gave rise to radical Islam, terrorist regimes, and the threat of an American Hiroshima.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-doomsday.html (218 words)

	Doomsday Book - Poynton
		The term is first recorded in Domesday Book The haia was an enclosure formed by a hedge of trees, designed to trap or corral wild animals, usually deer, during the hunt.
		Large numbers of enclosures are recorded in Domesday Book, all but one (which may be an error) in circuit 5, the majority of these in Cheshire and Shropshire.
		Domesday Book records large numbers of such manors, the great majority of which had no recorded value or human or animal resources.
	www.poyntonweb.co.uk /visitorscentre/poynton_doomsday_book.htm (2026 words)

	Domesday Book \| MetaFilter
		This book is "a great land survey from 1086, commissioned by William the Conqueror to assess the extent of the land and resources being owned in England at the time, and the extent of the taxes he could raise.
		On a tangentially-related note, The Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis, is a superb work of speculative fiction mostly set in the same time period.
		The Doomsday Book is a repetitive, slow, repetative, awkwardly-written "science fiction" book in a future where the only technological advancement is time travel to the past, but no one even has cell phones.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/53966 (1123 words)

	Family Ancestry Domesday Book
		The Domesday Book is a survey of England that was conducted by William I the Conquer.
		It should also be noted that the Domesday Book is comprised of two volumes which are not the same.
		While the Domesday Book covers a large number of towns and provinces, none of the documents related to London or Winchester are in existence today.
	www.family-ancestry.co.uk /history/doomsday/domesday_book (602 words)

	Doomsday Book Census \| Planetizen
		The Domesday book is England's most famous and earliest surviving public record.
		It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land and resources held by the King and his chief tenants in late 11th century England.
		The survey was a massive enterprise, and the record of that survey, Domesday Book, was a remarkable achievement.
	www.planetizen.com /node/20778 (300 words)

	Doomsday Book
		Doomsday Book is a story of time travel, in the same series as "Fire Watch" which also won both awards and To Say Nothing of the Dog which won the Hugo.
		The Oxford of Doomsday Book is no more an attempt at predicting the future than Terry Pratchett's Discworld is an attempt to consider the implications of life on a flat planet.
		Willis uses the two settings of the book as a stage for a wrenching story of love, death and loss, with a hint of redemption at the end.
	www.nicholaswhyte.info /sf/doom.htm (1642 words)

	Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This is one of Connie Willis's best-known books, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel.
		The plot is excellent and suspenseful (although some of the people in the way of the scientists are utterly infuriating) and the research feels very solid and detailed.
		Be very careful about reading reviews or cover blurbs for this book; one of the inside cover blurbs in my copy contains a significant spoiler for the first three quarters of the book (although you'll likely guess it on your own).
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-553-56273-8.html (294 words)

	Doomsday Book (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Nearly everything possible goes wrong with the trip, and she soon faces the strong possibility of being stranded in the middle of the fl plague.
		The good parts of Doomsday Book take place in medieval England; Kivrin is taken in by a family that contains a number of interesting characters, who she becomes increasingly involved with during her struggle to find the "drop" from where she can return to the future.
		The parts of the book that I didn't like are set in mid 21st century England; the future world is poorly fleshed out and the characters are uninteresting.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/doomsdaybook.html (288 words)

	Doomsday Book (Connie Willis) - book review
		Doomsday Book is set in 2054, when time travel is run of the mill but everything else is, rather implausibly, pretty much like the present.
		The bulk of the book consists of parallel accounts of the two epidemics and this is worked out much better than the time-travel setup.
		I'm not sure it deserved its Hugo and Nebula award double, but Doomsday Book is definitely worth a read, especially if you are interested in epidemiology (used to produce a rather clever detective problem) or medieval English history.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Doomsday_Book.html (238 words)

	Doomsday book by Connie Willis \| LibraryThing
		It is a long book, but the balance of the two story arcs, building up at different paces, first one cresting and then the other, and then winding down nicely together at the end keep you engaged the entire time.
		When this was selected as my book club book du mois, I was incredibly put-off by the "science fiction / historical fiction" labels, which signified my two least favorite genres.
		Now, having finished the book, I have really enjoyed it and have found it to really just be a good story with deeply described characters I became increasingly engaged with throughout the novel.
	www.librarything.com /work.php?book=242076 (597 words)

	The Domesday (Doomsday) Book
		After the Norman invasion and conquest of England in 1066, the Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by order of William The Conqueror.
		William needed to raise taxes to pay for his army and so a survey was set in motion to assess the wealth and and assets of his subjects throughout the land.
		This led the book to be compared to the Last Judgement, or 'Doomsday', described in the Bible, when the deeds of Christians written in the Book of Life were to be placed before God for judgement.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/DomesdayBook.htm (525 words)

	A 20th-Century Doomsday Book \| GeorgiaTrend.com
		I purchased the book Limits to Growth in 1972 as a curiosity.
		Norman Cousins, editor and author, said of the book, “The most important business on earth, quite literally, is the business of planetary planning.” It was the first study of this nature.
		The book’s dire predictions drew many detractors, including Professor Wilfred Beckerman who argued that the doomsayers did not take into account how the market system can motivate public and private enterprise to develop successful alternatives.
	www.georgiatrend.com /neely-young/20th-century-doomsday-book.shtml (1127 words)

	Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
		In Doomsday Book, Connie Willis' Nebula and Hugo award-winning masterpiece, both challenges are accomplished with a searing realism that burns itself into the reader's consciousness.
		Doomsday Book is a powerful work of fiction that reads as much like science fiction as it does fantasy and history.
		Doomsday Book is not light reading by any stretch of the imagination.
	www.rambles.net /willis_doomsday.html (628 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Doomsday Book: Books: Connie Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Whether you are into fantasy or historical fiction this book should have something for you, though I feel it belongs more in the latter category than the former if you were to try and categorise it in just one box.
		I'm not sure that the particular storyline about an epidemic in the modern world was totally necessary, as this did prove a little distracting, but I suspect it was meant as a comparison piece to contrast with the events of the past also being played out.
		Kivrin, a time-travelling historian, is mistakenly sent back to a Medieval village near Oxford as the Black Death is about to strike, and sees all around her succumb to the Plague.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Doomsday-Book-Connie-Willis/dp/0553562738 (1236 words)

	The Doomsday Virus -- book review
		Doomsday is the man who comes between them all, a brilliant but crazed hacker with the uncanny ability to create computer viruses that cannot be stopped despite every best effort of the software mega-giants and their equally brilliant programmers.
		As the FBI gets closer to identifying Doomsday, Gatwick and Gladstone are backed into a corner and forced to make some jaw-dropping decisions to curb the potential havoc that Doomsday is planning for Y2K.
		This book has it all; tension, technology, romance, thrills, rivalry, a great ending that leaves everything wide open for a sequel, and characters you can get behind and either love or hate.
	www.curledup.com /doomsday.htm (494 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Connie Willis' Doomsday Book
		This book is absolutely apocalyptic, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.
		I started reading it around Christmas time, since that's when the book is set, over a period of a few weeks in, by turns, the mid-21st and 14th centuries.
		Excerpts from these recordings, which she called the Domesday Book, named after the survey commissioned by William the Conqueror, and compiled in 1086, appear at the end of several chapters.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/doomsday.htm (1448 words)

	The National Archives \| DocumentsOnline \| Domesday
		Some place names are found only in Domesday Book: some places are no longer inhabited and survive as the name of a natural feature or the place name may have been recorded in a corrupt form.
		Domesday Book is not a census of the population; the names that do appear in it are only of land-holders.
		Whereas in a modern book, each side of a page will be numbered sequentially (1, 2, 3, etc), sides of pages in Domesday Book are numbered 1r, 1v, 2r, 2v.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /documentsonline/domesday.asp (1175 words)

	Free Essay Doomsday Book Essay
		The book is centered around the life of a family who i...
		This essay does not attempt to interpret the Book of Revelation, instead, it is a general discussion about the Book.
		In Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, this is certainly evident through various characters and subplots.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27732 (949 words)

	Doomsday Book goes online (Domesday)
		Back in the days when databases were made from sepia ink and vellum, the most important database for any Englishman was the Domesday (Doomsday) book, commissioned nearly a thousand years ago as a complete census of England.
		The Doomsday book is a great place to search for English surname origins.
		Last names were just becoming popular in the 11th century, and peoples last names were often noted in relation to their job (John the Lavender "Laundryman" became John Lavender), and where a person lived often became their last name (William de Burleston became William Burleston).
	www.dba-oracle.com /oracle_news/news_doomsday_book_online.htm (274 words)

	Amazon.ca: Doomsday Book: Books: Connie Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion.
		The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
		This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Willis (Lincoln's Dreams) is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction.
	www.amazon.ca /Doomsday-Book-Connie-Willis/dp/0553562738 (1735 words)

	Doomsday Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		he "Doomsday" Book was a record of "all things" in the Realm of William the Conqueror - from chickens, to cows, to taverns and castles.
		Everything and anything of value was recorded in the book.
		When a village learned that the King's Tax Collectors were on their way they would say "the day of our doom is at hand" - hence the name Doomsday (Domesday) Book.
	www.carman.net /doomsday_book.htm (88 words)

	Doomsday Book (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Doomsday Book is a 1992, science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis.
		The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, presented annually to works of science fiction, for 1992–93.
		The book's point of view moves back and forth between the Kivrin's situation and the severe epidemic which has struck the community in the present.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doomsday_Book_(novel) (737 words)

	Amazon.com: Doomsday Book: Books: Connie Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The book alternates between what is happening in the present and what is happening in the past, as those in the present work to unravel the mystery of what went wrong.
		All this having been said, the book has some finer points, the finest of which is Willis's evocations of the medieval landscape; I was reminded a bit of Singrid Unset's Kristin Lavransdatter (which, for those who want real historical fiction of this sort, is definitely the place to turn).
		The book is a world (or two worlds, since it is half in the 21st century and half in the 14th) of its own which catches the reader so that you cannot let go until the last page.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553562738 (1983 words)

	Powell's Books - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
		For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone.
		Despite this book's use of a "Back to the Future" idea of time travel (or maybe this book used it first, I don't know), I really enjoyed Kivrin's adventures and struggle to survive while in the year 1348.
		This book is the kind of Sci-Fi book that you can give to people who say "I hate Sci-Fi" and they will love it.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0553562738-1 (513 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Doomsday Book (Connie Willis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The book starts in media res; since it's about a very unusual sort of time travel the first 20 pages or so are pretty confusing, but Willis does a great job of slowly (and unobtrusively) giving exposition, laying out in great detail the science behind her version of time travel.
		The entire book is a sequence of such increasingly tense scenes, followed by occasional (and brief) releases of tension.
		I think this book won either the Hugo or the Nebula Award in the same year as Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/WillisConnieDoomsdayBook.shtml (464 words)

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