Your April/May Un:Bound Book Club Selection is HERE!

...and it's Blackout by Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Connie Willis!

Here's a brief synopsis, courtesy of Barnes and Noble:

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can “catch up” to her in age.  

But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.

The Un:Bound Book Club is open to everyone - all you need to do is join the Un:Bound Forums (it's free!) and, of course, read the book!

Since this round was based on my selections (I submit three books and the group votes on which one to do), I'll be diving into the book starting next week and will be posting comments, questions, and general observations both here and in the forums.  At the end of may we'll round everything up in a nice and tidy package here on Un:Bound, complete with your voices added as well. 

So sign up and join in the fun!