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⌈ Secret Post #2590 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]

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[Cloud Atlas]

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[Hannibal]

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[Goonies]

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[Gwilym Lee]

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[Mass Effect]

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[Sherlock]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]

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[Sherlock]

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[Being Human UK]

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[Craig Ferguson]

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[Christina Ricci]

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[High School Musical]

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[Blue Exorcist]

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[Frozen, Tangled]

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[Amanda Palmer, Emilie Autumn]

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Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog. Gradually watching everything fall into place was magical the first time. I still love it every time I reread it, but I'd love to experience that amazement again.

Hm. I tried to find a summary of it. Is it a thriller? Or Mystery?

It is not an easily-described book. "Time-travel Victorian comedy of errors mystery" is probably my best attempt. It takes place in the same universe as The Doomsday Book, if you're familiar with that, but it's waaay more lighthearted.

Time travel has been discovered in the near future and is used exclusively for historical reserch because you can't alter the past or bring anything to a time period where it doesn't belong. Historian Ned Henry has been running himself ragged trying to find out the fate of the Bishop's Bird Stump, a historical artifact of no significance to anyone except the woman who's commandeered the entire time travel department for her pet project. In order to keep him out of her clutches long enough to recover from his acute time-lag (think jet-lag plus sleep deprivation turned up to eleven), his boss decides to send him back to the Victorian era for a short holiday. There's just one thing he needs to do while he's there: Fix a minor discrepancy that fellow historian Verity Kindle somehow introduced into the timeline in a way that should be literally impossible. That shouldn't take more than a few minutes, and then he can enjoy his holiday. One problem: Nobody makes sure Ned knows how to do that before they send him off, and now he and Verity may have introduced another, even bigger discrepancy. Now they have to work together to make sure history takes its proper course without the upper-class family they've taken refuge with figuring out that there's something not-quite-right about them both. Which would be easier if the people in the present could figure out what history's proper course actually is...

I've been trying to find that after it was recced a while a go! I've been hoping for the library or the couple used bookstores in my area, but I just may have to turn to Amazon.

Ooh that is a good book. I need to do a reread.

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