This is an enjoyable time-travel science fiction novel,
mainly set in the 1300s in Languedoc. It's about a scientific mission, but
there's more academic politicking than science - which suits me fine, because
in so far as there is any real time-travel science I don't have a hope of
understanding it. I can relate to office politics, and to medieval studies -
and it does both of these rather well. Lots of humour and nice descriptions of
both the scientists and the villagers, and quite a lot of thought about how
travellers from the future would appear to medieval villagers. A very
Australian book, especially in the language - I wonder whether the author did
this deliberately or unthinkingly. Anyway, that made it more enjoyable for me.
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