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Connie Willis


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Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for her fiction; Blackout and All Clear--a novel in two parts--and Doomsday Book won both. Her other works include Passage, Lincoln's Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Remake, Uncharted Territory, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Fire Watch, and Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Connie Willis lives with her family in Colorado, where she deals on a daily basis with the delights (and the more maddening aspects) of our modern oh-so-connected world.
 

Awards: Nebula (2012), Hugo (2011), Campbell (1988)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
 
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Novels
   Water Witch (1982) (with Cynthia Felice)
   Lincoln's Dreams (1987)
   Light Raid (1989) (with Cynthia Felice)
   Impossible Things (1993)
   Uncharted Territory (1994)
   Remake (1994)
   Bellwether (1996)
   Promised Land (1997) (with Cynthia Felice)
   Passage (2001)
   Crosstalk (2016)
   The Road to Roswell (2023)
   The Spanner in the Works (2025)
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Collections
   Miracle (1979)
   Futures Imperfect (1996)
   Even the Queen (1998)
   The Miracle of Christmas (1999)
   The Winds of Marble Arch (2007)
   Enter A Future (2010) (with others)
   The Best of Connie Willis (2013)
   A Lot Like Christmas (2017)
   Terra Incognita (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Last of the Winnebagos (1988)
   Jack (1991)
   Cibola (1998)
   Daisy in the Sun (1998)
   Roswell, vegas, and Area 51 (2002)
   Inside Job (2005)
   D.A. (2007)
   All Seated on the Ground (2007)
   All About Emily (2011)
   I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land (2018)
   Take a Look at the Five and Ten (2020)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Connie Willis
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Future Is Female! Volume Two (2022)
(Future Is Female!, book 2)
edited by
Lisa Yaszek

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Awards
2014 Locus Award for Best Collection : The Best of Connie Willis
2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
2011 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Blackout
2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Blackout
2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Blackout
2008 Locus Award for Best Collection : The Winds of Marble Arch: And Other Stories
2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella : All Seated on the Ground
2006 Hugo Award for Best Novella : Inside Job
2002 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Passage
2000 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Winds of Marble Arch [short story]
1999 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : To Say Nothing of the Dog
1999 Hugo Award for Best Novel : To Say Nothing of the Dog
1997 Locus Award for Best Novella : Bellwether
1997 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective
1996 Locus Award for Best Novella : Remake
1994 Locus Award for Best Collection : Impossible Things
1994 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Death on the Nile
1993 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Even the Queen [short story]
1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Doomsday Book
1993 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Even the Queen [short story]
1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Doomsday Book
1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Doomsday Book
1990 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : At the Rialto
1989 Nebula Award for Best Novella : The Last of the Winnebagos
1989 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Last of the Winnebagos
1988 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : Lincoln's Dreams
1983 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : A Letter from the Clearys
1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : Fire Watch [short story]
1983 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Fire Watch [short story]

Award nominations
2024 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Road to Roswell
2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Blackout
2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : All Clear
2008 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : All Seated on the Ground
2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Inside Job
2006 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Inside Job
2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Just Like the Ones We Used to Know
2004 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Just Like the Ones We Used to Know
2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Just Like the Ones We Used to Know
2002 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : deck.halls@boughs/holly
2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Passage
2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Passage
2002 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Passage
2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Passage
2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Winds of Marble Arch: And Other Stories
2000 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Winds of Marble Arch: And Other Stories
2000 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Miracle: And Other Christmas Stories
1998 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : To Say Nothing of the Dog
1997 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Bellwether
1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Remake
1994 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Death on the Nile
1994 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Death on the Nile
1993 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories
1993 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Doomsday Book
1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Doomsday Book
1992 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Jack
1992 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Jack
1992 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : In the Late Cretaceous
1992 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Jack
1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Miracle [short story]
1992 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Doomsday Book
1991 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Cibola [short story]
1990 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Time-out
1990 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Time-out
1990 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : At the Rialto
1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Last of the Winnebagos
1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Schwarzschild Radius
1988 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (nominee) : Lincoln's Dreams
1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Winter's Tale
1988 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Lincoln's Dreams
1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Chance
1987 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Spice Pogrom
1987 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Spice Pogrom
1986 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Curse of Kings
1986 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Fire Watch
1985 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Blued Moon
1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Sidon in the Mirror
1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Sidon in the Mirror
1980 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Daisy, in the Sun


Connie Willis recommends
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The Future (2023)
Naomi Alderman
"Talk of AI - and fears of what it can do - are everywhere in the news these days, but nobody seems to know exactly WHY we should be afraid and where this is all leading. Except Naomi Alderman! Her bold new novel, The Future, looks at AI in all of its seductive, terrifying forms while telling a story that takes place RIGHT NOW and spans continents and world-ending catastrophes while managing to be intensely personal at the same time. A story of advertising tricks and devious (or downright evil) algorithms, cults and corporations, billionaires determined to save their own skins at all costs and eco-idealists equally determined to save the world, set in, of all places, Sodom and Gomorrah! A compulsory - and compulsive - read!"
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Poor Man's Sky (2023)
(Rich Man's Sky, book 2)
Wil McCarthy
"A jam-packed adventure fizzing with mind-blowing concepts, and a great read."
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The First Law of Thermodynamics (2021)
James Patrick Kelly
"He changes our attitudes and our perceptions and even our understanding of what the short story can be, and he does it in stories which are disturbing, clever, affecting, funny and unique in every sense of the word."

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