Langue[dot]doc 1305

from ronploude

Langue[dot]doc is about disquieting relationships in a team environment. The time traveling team in this book consists of research scientists who are narrowly focused on their own study to the exclusion of other team member disciplines. This dysfunctional focus led to the renunciation of certain ...

from .mau.

[Disclaimer: I got this book via LibraryThing Early Reviewer program] Gillian Polack is a medievalist. How could an author talk about Middle Age in a book? Usually she writes a historical novel. Polack chose instead a different approach: she sent some researchers from our near future in the Langu...

from vanderz

I enjoy books, movies, etc. about time travel, and I was looking forward to a version from a bonafide historian. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. The story involves a small team of scientists that is sent back in time to southern France in the year 1305. There they spend the entire time being p...

from Tsana

Langue[dot]doc 1305 by Gillian Polack is a time-travel novel set mostly in 1305. It basically documents the expedition's stay in 1305 and the contemporaneous goings-on in the town of Languedoc. It is the second novel I've read by the author, the other was Ms Cellophane, which is unconnected. Ther...

from flusteredduck

I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers Group in exchange for a fair and honest review. This is a meticulously researched time travel novel that is told without hyperbole and with a degree of realism that is staggering. It is a quiet novel, measured like the time it describes (L...