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Connie Willis

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Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s.She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia.Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the future University of Oxford. These pieces include her Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog and the short story "Fire Watch," found in the short story collection of the same name.Willis tends to the comedy of manners style of writing. Her protagonists are typically beset by single-minded people pursuing illogical agendas, such as attempting to organize a bell-ringing session in the middle of a deadly epidemic (Doomsday Book), or frustrating efforts to analyze near-death experiences by putting words in the mouths of interviewees (Passage).


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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s.She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia.Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the future University of Oxford. These pieces include her Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog and the short story "Fire Watch," found in the short story collection of the same name.Willis tends to the comedy of manners style of writing. Her protagonists are typically beset by single-minded people pursuing illogical agendas, such as attempting to organize a bell-ringing session in the middle of a deadly epidemic (Doomsday Book), or frustrating efforts to analyze near-death experiences by putting words in the mouths of interviewees (Passage).


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Crosstalk

Connie Willis

Briddey is about to get exactly what she thinks she wants . . . Briddey is...

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The Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel)

Connie Willis

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in...

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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel)

Connie Willis

[To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at...

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Blackout

Connie Willis

Stranded in the past during World War II, three researchers from the future...

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All Clear (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)

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A follow-up to Blackout finds its time-traveling protagonists landing...

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Bellwether

Connie Willis

Statistician Sandra Foster and chaos theorist Bennett O'Reilly are...

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Passage

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Joanna Lander, a clinical psychologist obsessed with near-death...

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Crosstalk

Connie Willis

Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot,...

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Fire Watch

Connie Willis

SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE AUTHOR-FIRE WATCH,SERVICE FOR...

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Lincoln's Dreams

Connie Willis

Haunted by the nightmares of Annie, a young woman he has just met,...

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Impossible Things

Connie Willis

A collection of science fiction tales by the winner of six Nebula and two...

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Miracle and Other Christmas Stories

Connie Willis

Collects eight Christmas stories, including "Adaptation," "In...

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Inside Job

Connie Willis

Inside Job is a tale of spiritualists, seances, skeptics, and a love that...

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Remake

Connie Willis

Connie Willis's acclaimed time travel novel, "Doomsday Book," swept...

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The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

Connie Willis

Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis....

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Uncharted Territory

Connie Willis

Findriddy and Carson are two explorers sent to Boohte to survey the ridges...

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All Seated on the Ground

Connie Willis

A new Christmas novella by one of sf's finest...

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The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

Connie Willis

Presents a collection of twenty-three novellas and short stories, including...

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D.A.

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Theodora Baumgarten has just been selected as an IASA space cadet, and...

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All about Emily

Connie Willis

Theater legend Claire Havilland fears she might be entering the Sunset...

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Promised Land

Connie Willis

The coauthors of Water Witch create an unusual combination of frontier...

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Fire Watch (Oxford Time Travel, #0.5)

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Even the Queen & Other Stories

Connie Willis

Seven experiences in audio terror are brought to life in seven stories from...

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Water Witch

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Light Raid

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When Ariadne was 17, the laser beams blasted from the sky--destroying her...

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Futures imperfect

Connie Willis

A collection of three novellas: Uncharted...

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A Woman's Liberation

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These ten classic stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female...

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Daisy in the Sun

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It's snowing all the time, and the sun never shines, but it's not...

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Nebula Awards: v. 33: Science Fiction Writers' Association Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

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Presents the winning stories for best science fiction and fantasy of 1997,...


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