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The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis, 2007-09-25

Year's Best Fantasy 6 (No. 6) by Bruce Sterling, Esther Friesner, et all 2006-09-15

Futures Imperfect (Three Short Novels) by Connie Willis, 1996

Blackout by Connie Willis, 2010

Promised Land by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice, 1998-08-01

All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis, 2007-11-26

2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers by Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, et all 1994-01-01

Light Raid by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice, 1990-04-01

A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women by Connie Willis, S. Williams, 2001-10-01

The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3

Le Grand livre by Connie Willis, Jean-Pierre Pugi, 1994-01-01

Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis, 2003-02-03

Water Witch by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice, 1984-02

Even the Queen & Other Short Stories by Connie Willis, 1998-01

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Connie Willis' Home Page
connie willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards than any other science fiction author.
http://www.starsend.com/authors/cw/cwhome.htm

Extractions: Sandra Foster studies fads, from Barbie dolls to the grunge lookhow they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theory scientist studying monkeys' group behavior. They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package brings them together. It's a moment of synchronicityif not serendipityand they find themselves in a chaotic system of their own, complete with misunderstandings, a million-dollar research grant, caffe latte, tattoos, bobbed hair, Browning, and a series of coincidences that leaves Bennett monkeyless, fundless, and nearly jobless. (After all, what better animal to illustrate both chaos theory and the herd mentality that so often characterizes human behavior?) But scientific discovery is rarely straightforward and never simple, and Sandra and Bennett have to endure a series of setbacks, heartbreaks, dead ends, and disasters before they find their answers.... Connie Willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards than any other science fiction author. Now, with all the wit and inventiveness that have made her one of the most beloved writers in the field, she explores the intimate relationship between science, pop culture, and the arcane secrets of the heart. Connie Willis deploys the apparatus of science fiction to illuminate character and relationships, and her writing is fresh, subtle and deeply moving.
Connie Willis, Science Fiction Writer
connie willis. 1945 . Novels. willis, connie . Lincoln's Dreams, Bantam, New York, 1987.
http://www.hycyber.com/SF/willis_connie.html
Willis, Connie. To Say Nothing Of The Dog.
To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last. Bantam, $23.95 (0553-09995-7). What a stitch!
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/ja1/33willis.html
PR1: Connie Willis A One-sided Dialogue
Imaginary interview with the author.Category Arts Literature Authors W willis, connieconnie willis. I didn't get to meet connie willis when she was over here at the GlasgowWorldcon, so it's going to be a great pleasure to meet her at Intuition.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6390/sf/willis.html

Extractions: I didn't get to meet Connie Willis when she was over here at the Glasgow Worldcon, so it's going to be a great pleasure to meet her at Intuition. After all, it might give me a chance to ask some of the things you always find yourself wanting to ask a writer whose work you admire. For instance: What is it about Britain? I mean, you've set more stories in Britain than any other American writer I can think of except for those who are actually resident over here. The story of yours that first introduced me to your work was "Fire Watch" which is set during the Blitz in London, then there has been "Jack" (which is also set during the Blitz, come to that does the war hold a special fascination for you?) and of course Doomsday Book , along with a few other stories. They're not researched on the ground, are they? (Am I right in thinking Intuition will be only your second visit to this country?) Doomsday Book , of course, raises another interesting question. It tells the story of a time travel experiment which sends a researcher back from near-future Oxford to the Middle Ages, but due to a small mistake she ends up in the middle of the Black Death. Hardly a usual subject for a science fiction novel, but what makes it even more unusual is the gritty realism that makes the historical sections of the book almost unremittingly bleak. This is not a neat, clean, romantic image of the Middle Ages, nor is it a happy-ever-after story the ultimate death-toll would probably make most writers of militaristic sf blench. So what prompted this? And did you ever consider writing it as a straight historical novel without the time-travel trappings?
Interview: Connie Willis
connie willis answers your questions. onnie willis started her career like hundreds of other wouldbe science fiction
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue17/interview.html

Extractions: onnie Willis started her career like hundreds of other would-be science fiction writers toiling away as a virtual unknown for years, publishing only sporadically and not making much of a name for herself. But that changed in the early 1980s when she began writing full time. Her ever-increasing list of short stories quickly caught the attention of readers and editors alike, and she soon became a sought-after property. Today, Willis is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors publishing in the genre, having already collected six Nebula Awards, five Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award. Last week Willis sat down with Science Fiction Weekly to answer questions submitted by our readers. She talked about her career, her writing style, her favorite authors and much more: Joe, Equinox@Buffnet.net Before I became successful I was unhappy about rejection letters (especially those printed slips) and was I wasting my time and telling people I was a writer and having them say, "Have you ever sold anything?"
Allscifi.com Connie Willis Fan Club
A detailed analysis of the plot, setting, characters, theme, and structure of her greatest novels, and links to similar works by other novelists.
http://www.allscifi.com/Topic.asp?TopicID=398
Connie Willis OmniVisions Interview
Lengthy transcript of an interview including comments by Jim Freund and Ellen Datlow, and a picture of the author.
http://www.hourwolf.com/chats/willis.html

Extractions: Jim Freund: Good evening. Tonight at X EDT our guest will be Connie Willis, discussing, among other things, her latest novel, To Say Nothing of the Dog . We're planning on the first half-hour being an interview, and will then open the forum to include your participation. Connie Willis: Hi. This is Connie Willis. I'm here and ready to start anytime being interrogated. JF: Great! I finished reading TSNOTD yesterday, and I cannot describe my delight. Would you mind giving us a precis of the novel? CW: Okay. A lunatic American has hijacked Oxford University, making them help her with a crazy project to rebuild Coventry Cathedral in return for money for their time travel projects. As a result, poor hero Ned has been bouncing around the past, getting time-lagged beyond belief. When he's grounded and told to get bedrest, they send him to Victorian England for safekeeping. At least that's what Ned thinks. Actually, a slight problem has occurred in the time-space continuum and Ned's been sent back to fix it, but he doesn't know what he's supposed to do. or how to do it. Or anything. And there's a butler and a bulldog and a girl who looks like a Waterhouse nymph, and some jumble sales and the Three Men In A Boat and a cat and stuff...for about six hundred pages.
Connie Willis
Brief biography written by the New England Science Fiction Association.
http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/b36/b36pb/conniewillisii.htm

Extractions: (Return to Boskone 36 Program Book) Connie Willis by Deb Geisler Mention Connie Willis to the average SF reader, and they will probably think of her Hugo and Nebula Awards, or the John W. Campbell Award she won for her first novel, . They will think of her vivid writing, her wit, and her piercing evaluations of social movement excesses. But there is a lot more to Connie Willis than her fiction. She loves the soap opera All My Children (she’s been an avid viewer since it started). She watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial. She sings soprano in a Congregationalist choir, and claims that everything you need to know about the world "can be learned in a church choir." And she’s much in demand as a speaker and program participant at conventions, making a notable (and much-acclaimed) appearance as the Toastmaster at L.A.con III in 1996. Kristin Lavransdatter ("Nobody’s ever heard of her, even though she won the Nobel prize in 1920, but her books are wonderful"). She has heroes: "Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person," she told SF Weekly [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue17/interview.html] "[Robert] Heinlein is probably the biggest influence on my writing," she noted in an August 1998 online chat with Gardner Dozois [available at http://www.cybling.com/artists/awillis.html]. "I love his sense of humor, his down-to-earth approach to the future, and his clever plots."
Puzzling Connie Willis
Crossword puzzle about the author, written by James Patrick Kelly.
http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/b36/b36pb/puzzlingconniewillis.htm

Extractions: (Return to Boskone 36 Program Book) Puzzling Connie Willis by James Patrick Kelly Across When is the next book coming? How many children? How many husbands? Relationship of Daisy to sun. Even she is a Cyclist. One of her other names. Her least healthy book. Down She got one for killing all those dogs. Look in the mirror. What they gave to the Clearys. Bartholomew watched for it. Lincoln had a few. Exactly how many times she has kissed Harrison Ford. Bellwether obsession.
ChiCon 2000 Connie Willis Card
A baseballstyle card containing a photograph and facts about the author.
http://www.chicon.org/chi2000/card03.htm
Nebula Awards 33
Rese±a del libro mentado de connie willis, por Pedro Romero.
http://www.pjorge.com/nessus/rese0145.htm
Revista Gigamesh - Crítica De Libros - Por No Mencionar Al Perro, De Connie Wil
Crtica a esta obra de connie willis, por Juli¡n Dez.
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Extractions: Obra menor, mayor tocho Por no mencionar al perro , de Connie Willis Habrá que aceptar ya como ley insoslayable que Connie Willis se mueve bastante mejor en las distancias cortas. Por no mencionar al perro , una novela que ha arrasado con Hugo y Nebula como ya lo hiciera El libro del día del juicio final , comparte con esta otra novela de gran extensión defectos y virtudes. La principal de éstas, el acabado pulido, la firmeza formal y auténticos rasgos de genio en sus mejores momentos; el mayor de aquellos, la gran cantidad de páginas de dudosa contribución al relato que se acumulan en detrimento del resultado final. Y Willis no es una escritora que pueda permitirse sumar páginas simplemente por el placer de su estilo, sobre todo porque no sostiene por igual el tono cómico a lo largo de todas esas páginas. La historia se entronca con otras narraciones de viajes por el tiempo de la autora, y nos narra las peripecias de Ned Henry, un personaje que se va complicando más y más en una serie de paradojas temporales en la búsqueda de un objetivo final absurdo: conseguir un cacharro inútil, el tocón del pájaro del obispo, que la mecenas de la reconstrucción de la catedral de Coventry, Lady Dunworthy, considera fundamental para la reinauguración del lugar que ha financiado... así como para mantener las subvenciones con las que las investigaciones de viajes por el tiempo son posibles. Con el fin de descansar, Henry viaja a la época victoriana y se ve enredado en una trama compleja, pero que Willis dibuja con claridad. Sin embargo, las desventuras de Henry se prolongan y se prolongan; el homenaje a
Booklist--Willis, Connie. Passage.
How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine willis, connie. Passage. May2001. 608p. Bantam, $23.95 (0553-11124-8). willis certainly
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v97/adult/mr2/33willis.html
Por No Mencinar Al Perro
Rese±a del libro Por no mencionar al perro , de connie willis.
http://www.pjorge.com/nessus/rese0122.htm
Remake
Sobre el libro de marras, de connie willis.
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Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
Very short review.Category Arts Literature Authors W willis, connieDoomsday Book. connie willis. Hodder Stoughton 1993 A book reviewby Danny Yee http//dannyreviews.com/ - Copyright © 1993. In
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Doomsday_Book.html

Extractions: Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest A book review by Danny Yee In general I strongly dislike time-travel stories with their attendant implausiblities, but sometimes they have other qualities which redeem them. Doomsday Book is set in 2054, when time travel is run of the mill but everything else is, rather implausibly, pretty much like the present. The only real exception is a random collection of tech gadgets such as video phones and laser candles. Kivrin, a female undergraduate history student at Oxford, is to be the first person sent back to the Middle Ages (to 1320), because - wait for it! - no qualified historian is available. Everything goes wrong with the mission - the bungling incompetence of the academics organising it is, unfortunately, quite plausible - and she is delivered instead to 1348, the year the Black Plague reached England. Meanwhile a flu epidemic has hit 2054, and Oxford is quarantined. The bulk of the book consists of parallel accounts of the two epidemics and this is worked out much better than the time-travel setup. Despite the weaknesses in the science and the implausible 2054 Oxford, I enjoyed
Casa Del Libro
willis, connie, Libros delautor 7 libros encontrados, 1. REMAKE Editorial EDICIONES B SA , 1997, 5.95 .
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Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: Connie Willis
Complete bibliography, including short stories.
http://www.catch22.com/SF/ARB/SFW/Willis,Connie.php3

Extractions: SciFi Weekly Interview Doomsday Book 1992 Nebula, Bantam Spectra Fire Watch sh.sts. 1985 Light Raid w. Cynthia Felice Lincoln's Dream Nebula Awards #28 1992 Ed. The New Hugo Winners, Vol. III Ed. To Say Nothing of the Dog 1998, Bantam Spectra Water Witch 1982 w. Cynthia Felice "Ado" Jan 1988 IASFM "All My Darling Daughters" Fire Watch "And Also Much Cattle" 1982 omni "And Come From Miles Around" 1979 Galileo 14 "At the Rialto" Oct 1989 Omni Nebula "Blued Moon" Jan 1984 IASFM "Cash Crop" The Missouri Review Vol. 7 #2 "Chance" May 1986 IASFM "The Curse of Kings" Mar 1985 IASFM "Daisy in the Sun" 1979 Galileo 15 "Dilemma" Mid-Dec 1989 IASFM "Even the Queen" Adapted in 2001 for NPR's , with Diana Douglas and Barbara Rush "Fire Watch" novelette 1982 Nebula, Hugo "Land of Hosts" June 1987 Omni "The Last of the Winnebagoes" novella July 1988 IASFM Hugo, Nebula
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Extractions: Connie Willis writes what some folk would call "literary science fiction." She doesn't write space operas or half-baked media rip-offs. Instead she writes funny and intelligent stories about people in a science fiction environment. The story, "Fire Watch," from her collection of the same name is a perfect example. It's the first of her time travel stories and in it a student historian who is an expert on the biblical-era St. Paul is sent to St. Paul's Cathedral in 1940, apparently due to a bureaucratic mix-up. As part of his final exams at Oxford he must help to save the cathedral from destruction by Nazi bombs during the Battle of Britain. Along the way, our student learns the true value of history and we are provided with a story that may be called science fiction but is better written and a better read than most stories published in literary magazines nowadays. She's won more awards than any other science fiction writer in the history of the genre.

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