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This book is written of Connie Willis. She have written many pieces there students in the future time travel and study history.

The book begins in oxford, the year 2060. It's a time when people want to do as much as possible to keep the world in such a peaceful place as possible.
We get to meet a group of 3 students who travel back in time to study and seek information on different points in history in the Second World War. The want to learn from the mistakes they did then, so they don't have to do those mistakes again in the future. All three students get three different places to travel back to. But just before they leave, they change their travel positions. It gets complicated and the travel positions turn out to be wrong. The time they also were supposed to be on the positions is wrong, so someone comes too late and misses the war they were going to study. All the mistakes made by the travel planner ends up in both bad and good ways.

I would choose to read the book "The last storm lord." It seems interesting because of the special theme, water, because it is such an important thing. It also seems interesting and mysterious, which is often exciting to read.

I'm not the biggest fan of reading so the task have been little hard. But the blogging helped it up a little bit, because then Í could use what i have read and write about it, not just read which is quite boring.

// Jennifer N

The Windup Girl was written by Paolo Baccigalupi, and there is one thing that made this story a solid 8, transforming it from a rather dull 5. It was the constant, yet unforeseen, twists the plot took a number of times.

The Windup Girl takes place in a not too distant furure, where carbon-based fuels are all but depleted.
The environment depiced is all to probable to actually take place, if the current lifestyle are carried on for a few more years.
I would recommend this to anyone with a open mind, if they would like to read about another future theory, that surely is embedded into a top-notch story.

The novels I would like to read is The Enemy and Feed.

The First is because I like Zombies, and the new angle triggers my fantasy about it is going to turn out.
The Second one is Feed, since I think it seemed very interesting. Also, there is Zombies.

This blog thing is not something that strikes my fancy. I do not like to write small pieces of text about parts of a story, since I think too much is revealed. Many details, which can be hidden in a longer review, will have to be ratted out in these strange micro-reviews.

Anton, signing off (hopefully for the last time)

Human values ​​and the environment.

 

It feels like it puts the value of the man of the highest in this book. They go back in history to learn from the mistakes they did then. And from there pass the knowledge on in the world they live in now not to make the same mistake in future.I think this shows that it puts a high value of man, by trying to preserve everything by learning from other people.

The book starts in oxford which is a busy place in 2060, the enviroment seems messy with much transports as cars which almost have polluted the city. but most of the book is about is back in history where the environment is much cleaner without as much transport.When they travel back in time maybe they learns from the people there, that they must take steps to maintain the environment.

// Jennifer N

Well, this novel is about all crazy stuffs that will happen or atleast could happen) in a not so near future. It's got it all, space travel, humans, torture, concentration camps and much more! I can not recommend this to anyone since I don't know who would like to read this, maybe someone that is interested to the genre, though I am not used to this kind of books so I do not know if it would interest anyone. But I do recommend it if you got to much free time on your hand and want to waste it on reading a not-so-good book.

This has been a horrible experience, I hate reading and doing blogs is even worse. This is like mixing two bad things and trying to make something better - it is just not possible!!!! It did maybe influence my reading a bit, not in a good way though, made it alot more boring since I knew I had to write a post about it on a blog which I hate doing since I find blogs stupid.

I would have picked Timothys book, seems fun and a book I would have liked to read more. Interesting with the hunter and hellbreeder things and the history behind them and also how the story will go forth.
As the second book I would have picked Kristoffers book, mostly because I had to pick another book, seems ok and everything, not to appealing though but I guess I could have read it without throwing up of being to bored.

The machines are still in control, not as much as I thought they would be though since the Commitee has more power. The Commitee is still in the biggest control and rules the population with an iron hand. The population is overpopulated and the resources are not enough to supply everyone, this leaves several space expaditions stranded and they are unable to make more trips in to space.

Some predictions have come true, not as much or in the exact way as I thought, but it has been pretty similar, the machine thing is true. The killing their own people thing is also a likly thing to happen since they left people on Mars with no contact to earth or anything they are very capable of killing their on population.

//Hampus Viktor Sjöman.

I choosed a dystopia because I'm very interested in that type of genre. It's very interesting to read what others may think are going to happen in the future.

I am around the half way of my book and so far it has been pretty good, though there has not been much deviaton in the book so I find it boring from time to time which makes the reading alot slower and not fun!

Comparing this entry to the old one I don't see many differences, TO BE CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS ANOTHER DAY

2. The environment.

First, how does the book look upon the human life?
This treats humans in different kinds of "groups", the lowest group is treated as shit and they are worth nothing since there are so many of them that if one of them dies you can replace them with another one. The higher group the more worth you are, the highest group is close to irriplacabe.

The environment is very "cold", feels like a place you don't want to live or spend to much time, atleast the places that the lesser people inhabit.

//Hampus Viktor Sjöman

Typical is that it is based in a future that is not very bright for the human race. First time reading from this genre. I chose because it was the only reasonable genre of the ones we got to pick from.
//Hampus

Well, I read a dystopia, which is a genre that describes the future, often quite dark and sad. 

My book this far, seems to fill it´s quota just fine. It´s bad and hopeless, there is no light in their miserable lifes. 
So yes, a solid dystopia.

Now i have read the beginning of the book Blackout.
The book immideately starts quite confusing and it's hard to keep up sometimes. It seems like the author don't tell everything and points at happenings that the reader don't know anything about because of that you just have started reading the book.

The book is about a group on three people that living the year 2060. They are going to use a time machine to go back and study different points of the history.
We meet Eileen O'Reilly, Mike Davies and Polly Churchill.

Eileen are going to time travel to a rich estate in Warwickshire, there she is going to work among the servants at the estate. She is going to observe a huge amount of evacuee children being sent from London.
Mike Davies is going to work as a American journalist to covering Dunkirk evacuation efforts.
Polly Churchill is traveling to London in the midst of the Blitz to observe girls that are working in department stores and become a one self so she can observe the girls as best as possible.

But just when the were about to leave they change the traveling positions.

I think that it's going to be a confusing start on their journey, and that it's going to be a alot of faults in the beginning.

 

// Jennifer N

We have now pressed deeper in than anyone ever before us. We have overcome unpassable obstacles, unnamable hazards, and a severe case of bad focus.

The plot is that machines are a big part of the world and the gene bank is getting close and the world is overpopulated, based on the review of the librarian I think they will start killing of their population to free up space and make the need for food less imoportant and that no one will starve.

The main character is Saul and he is a human and is against the closing of the gene bank, don't know realy what will happen to him as he was just intruduced to me.

//Hampus

Hello there!

My name is Jennifer. In our class we been given the mission to create a blog in groups, there we are going to write about the books we have chosen to read.

I have chosen to read a dystopia, Blackout by Connie Willis. I have always been interested in what's going to happen in the future, because that's something that includes all of us and it’s very thrilling to read.