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Connie Willis

Born

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December 31, 1945

Website

http://www.sftv.org/cw/

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy

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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 ...more

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THANKSGIVING POST

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Dear Everybody:

It’s Thanksgiving Day! And, as Robert Louis Stevenson pointed out, “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

Things I’m thankful for (besides the obvious like friends and family):

–Shakespeare

–Jane Austen

–Heather Cox Richardson

–the Hampton Court maze

–spring

–fall

–capers (the food)

–cats–especially Jenny and her dear departed sister Cl

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Connie Willis’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 272,944 ratings · 34,204 reviews · 256 distinct works • Similar authors

	Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 64,797 ratings — published 1992 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 44,306 ratings — published 1997 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 27,411 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Clear (Oxford Time Travel, 4) 4.08 avg rating — 21,979 ratings — published 2010 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bellwether 3.93 avg rating — 13,784 ratings — published 1996 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crosstalk 3.56 avg rating — 13,313 ratings — published 2016 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passage 3.72 avg rating — 10,283 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Roswell 3.71 avg rating — 9,191 ratings — published 2023 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire Watch 3.84 avg rating — 4,661 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln's Dreams 3.51 avg rating — 4,470 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Oxford Time Travel (5 books)
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The bartender says, “We don’t serve time travelers in here!” Two time travelers walk into a bar… It’s an old joke, but a good one, and as...

Polls

MARCH SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the March 2014 SF Book-of-the-month.

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

31 votes, 32.3%

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

19 votes, 19.8%

Blackout by Connie Willis

18 votes, 18.8%

Gridlinked by Neal Asher

9 votes, 9.4%

The Humans by Matt Haig

8 votes, 8.3%

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

7 votes, 7.3%

Hal Spacejock by Simon Haynes

4 votes, 4.2%

96 total votes

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