In other cases, "slippage"-a shift from the exact, desired target in time and/or space-occurs. In some cases, the machine used for time-travel will refuse to function, rendering the trip impossible. Historians in Willis' world believe that the laws of physics resist possible alterations to the past by preventing time-travel to certain places or times. They can return from the same location when someone in the future re-opens the Net for them at an agreed-upon "rendezvous" time. The time-travel device, a portal called "the Net", remains in the time-traveler's present, while sending the time-traveler to a particular location (called "the drop") and time. In their world, time-travel has been known since the early 21st century. The research is mainly conducted at the University of Oxford in England in the mid-21st century. Willis imagines a near future (first introduced in her 1982 story " Fire Watch" and featured in two of her previous novels: Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog) in which historians conduct field work by traveling into the past as observers.
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