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Title: Like a bad episode of ER
Review: This book takes us through three waves of illness. One is a bad flu that hits a 21st century university during Christmas break. This wave is poorly written with several running jokes that (1) are not funny and (2) destroy any feeling for the deaths that occur.The other two waves occur in the Middle Ages. We get a lengthy story of the illness of a time travelling student/historian, followed by a separate plague that strikes the other characters.The story of the final plague is moving. Unfortunately, it is only about 100 pages of a 600 page book. And by the time you reach it, you have had an overdose of high fevers, racking pains, and drifting in and out of consciousness.The Hugo and Nebula awards for this book are unfathomable. Affirmative action for female science fiction writers?
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