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A review by isabellarobinson7
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
3.5
Rating: 3.5 stars
While in some ways you can tell Fire Watch is the first story in Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel universe, in others it is barely noticeable. Some of the concepts present in the later full length novels are here in this sub-hundred-page novelette. It's like with Tolkien's works, where you just know there is so much more underneath the surface that you can't see - and in some instances you will never see, for the author has chosen not to divulge it to the reader - but you can feel the wider effects of it throughout the story. Every now and again you get hints of something bigger, something grander than the story you are reading, but it's always just out of reach.
While in some ways you can tell Fire Watch is the first story in Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel universe, in others it is barely noticeable. Some of the concepts present in the later full length novels are here in this sub-hundred-page novelette. It's like with Tolkien's works, where you just know there is so much more underneath the surface that you can't see - and in some instances you will never see, for the author has chosen not to divulge it to the reader - but you can feel the wider effects of it throughout the story. Every now and again you get hints of something bigger, something grander than the story you are reading, but it's always just out of reach.