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Connie Willis


Born
in The United States
December 31, 1945

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Science Fiction, Fantasy


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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A HOPEFUL AND HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

Dear Everybody:

We went to the Greeley Stampede last night (our local fair and rodeo.) It can be kind of a rough crowd, but this year my husband and I both noticed something different about it–and not just that last year there was lots of MAGA stuff, and this year I saw hardly any red hats or in-your-face T-shirts. What we noticed was people’s attitudes–they were friendly and polite and smiling. Ev

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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage
tags: death, life, literature, messages
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“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
tags: cats
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“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether
tags: barbie, bellwether, fads, humour, independence
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May-July 2023 Nomination: A Trilogy
(one book per month)

The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
 
  34 votes, 29.1%

Oxford Time Travel by Connie Willis
 
  22 votes, 18.8%

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
 
  20 votes, 17.1%

Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee
 
  11 votes, 9.4%

The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer
 
  11 votes, 9.4%

Helliconia by Brian Aldiss
 
  10 votes, 8.5%

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
 
  9 votes, 7.7%

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