To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis - SF - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0553575384
Pages: 493 pages
Publisher: Bantam Books
Price: 6.5
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
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To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Description: Ned Henry is being hounded to death by Lady Schrapnell, who has the time-travel staff at Oxford University working overtime to help her reconstruct Coventry Cathedral. Henry's latest assignment is to locate the bishop's bird stump, a particularly unremarkable article that was last seen in the cathedral during a German bombing raid in the 1940s. But poor Henry is so strung-out on time-traveling runs that he can barely remember who, much less when, he is. His addled state makes him a less than ideal candidate to stop the possibly catastrophic events that began when Verity Kindle accidentally brought a kitten forward in time, which is supposedly impossible. But because Henry is the only one who can go, he's sent off to the Victorian era to meet up with Verity and save the world, assuming he can remember what it is he's supposed to do.

Won Hugo Award (1999).