Connie Willis

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Connie Willis bigraphy, stories - American science fiction writer

Connie Willis : biography

31 December 1945 –

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works —more "major awards" than any other writer— most recently the year’s "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear (2010). She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011.

Several of her works feature time travel by history students at a faculty of the future University of Oxford—sometimes called the Time Travel series. They are the short story "Fire Watch" (1982, also in several anthologies and the 1985 collection of the same name), the novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1992 and 1998), as well as the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010). All four won the annual Hugo Award and all but To Say Nothing of the Dog won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Works

Novels and novellas

  • Water Witch (1982) – with Cynthia Felice
  • Lincoln’s Dreams (1987) – John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1988
  • Light Raid (1989) – with Cynthia Felice
  • Doomsday Book (1992) – Nebula Award winner, BSFA Award nominee, 1992; Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, Clarke Award nominee, 1993
  • Remake (1994) – Hugo Award nominee, 1996
  • Uncharted Territory (1994)
  • Bellwether (1996) – Nebula Award nominee, 1997
  • Promised Land (1997) – with Cynthia Felice
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998) – Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1999; Nebula Award nominee, 1998
  • Passage (2001) – Locus SF Award winner, Hugo and Clarke Awards nominee, 2002; Nebula Award nominee, 2001
  • Inside Job (2005)
  • D.A. (2007)
  • All Seated on the Ground (2007)
  • Blackout (2010)
  • All Clear (2010)
  • All About Emily (2011)

Short story collections

  • Fire Watch (1984), whose title story won the 1982 Hugo and Nebula Awards
  • Impossible Things (1993) – contains three Nebula Award winners, two of which also won Hugo Awards
  • Futures Imperfect (1996) – omnibus edition of Uncharted Territory, Remake and Bellwether.
  • Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories (1998) – sound recording of five stories read by Connie Willis including "Even the Queen", "Death on the Nile", and "At the Rialto"
  • Miracle and Other Christmas Stories (1999)
  • The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium (2007)
  • The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories (2013)

Short stories

  • "Samaritan" (1978) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Capra Corn" (1978) – Collected in the "Limited/Lettered Editions" of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Daisy, in the Sun" (1979) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "And Come from Miles Around" (1979) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "The Child Who Cries for the Moon" (1981) – Collected in
  • "Distress Call" (1981) – Published separately by and collected in
  • "A Letter from the Clearys" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Fire Watch" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Service For the Burial of the Dead" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Lost and Found" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "The Father of the Bride" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "Mail Order Clone" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "And Also Much Cattle" (1982)
  • "The Sidon in the Mirror" (1983) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "A Little Moonshine" (1983)
  • "Blued Moon" (1984) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Cash Crop" (1984) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Substitution Trick" (1985) – Collected in the "Limited/Lettered Editions" of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "The Curse of Kings" (1985) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "All My Darling Daughters" (1985) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "And Who Would Pity a Swan?" (1985)
  • "With Friends Like These" (1985)
  • "Chance" (1986) – Collected in Impossible Things, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium, and Gardner Dozois’ Modern Classics of Science Fiction
  • "Spice Pogrom" (1986) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "The Pony" (1986) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Winter’s Tale" (1987) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "Schwarzschild Radius" (1987) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "Circus Story" (1987)
  • "Lord of Hosts" (1987)
  • "Ado" (1988) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "The Last of the Winnebagos" (1988) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Dilemma" (1989)
  • "Time Out" (1989) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "At the Rialto" (1989) – Collected in Impossible Things, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and "Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories" (1998) recoding
  • "Cibola" (1990)
  • "Miracle" (1991) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Jack" (1991) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "In the Late Cretaceous" (1991) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Even the Queen" (1992) – Collected in Impossible Things, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and "Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories" (1998) recoding
  • "Inn" (1993) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Close Encounter" (1993)
  • "Death on the Nile" (1993) – Collected in "Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories" (1998) recoding
  • "A New Theory Explaining the Unpredictability of Forecasting the Weather" (1993)
  • "Why the World Didn’t End Last Tuesday" (1994)
  • "Adaptation" (1994) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Wellsian Perspective" (1996) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "In Coppelius’s Toyshop" (1996) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Nonstop to Portales" (1996) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Newsletter" (1997) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Cat’s paw" (1999) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Epiphany" (1999) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "The Winds of Marble Arch" (1999) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "deck.halls@boughs/holly" (2001)
  • "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" (2003) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "New Hat" (2008)