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Fire Watch is a 1984 book of short stories by Connie Willis that touches on time travel, atomic war, the end of the world, and cornball humour, The title story, Fire Watch, is about a time-travelling "historian" who goes back to The Blitz in London. He's miffed because he spent years preparing to travel with St. Paul and gets sent to St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, instead. The ideas of time travel used here are also used to great effect in Willis's novels Doomsday Book
and To Say Nothing of the Dog
. The stories are:
  • "Fire Watch"
  • "All My Darling Daughters"
  • "The Sidon in the Mirror"
  • "Samaritan"
  • "Service for the Burial of the Dead"
  • "Mail Order Clone"
  • "Daisy, in the Sun"
  • "A Letter from the Clearys"
  • "And Come from Miles Around"
  • "Blued Moon"
  • "Lost and Found"
  • "The Father of the Bride"

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Some related entries: Dolan's Cadillac | A Confederacy of Dunces | The Family from One End Street | You Only Live Twice | World's End | Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | An Attempt to Escape | I Capture the Castle | The Shepherd | The Things They Carried | The Trumpet of the Swan

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