To Say Nothing of the Dog

Being one of the Hugos, I have had this book on my list for some time. It was the winner in 1999 but the prequel of sorts was written back in 1888.  This Hugo is so clever it does your head in but then time travel often does.  The sequence of how I arrived at this book is my own 'Twilight Zone' moment.  I have previously written up a post on the 1888 prequel 'Three men in a Boat to say nothing of the Dog'.  I bought that book without knowing anything about it or its later relevance to the Hugo awards.   It was only until I started reading the Connie Willis book a month later that I made the connection.  It is important to read the Jerome K Jerome book first then the Connie Willis book second.

This book is a madcap riot and as usual with time travel you need to pay attention.  It gets you chuckling along the way and has captured the mayhem of three men in a boat.  I have not yet found another Hugo which is 80% comedy and 20% Science Fiction.  Now I have to go find 'Have Spacesuit will travel' and also 'The Moonstone'.

PS A bird stump vase is a particularly ugly type of pedestal decoration from the Victorian era.