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Connie Willis


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December 31, 1945

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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
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Connie Willis – New Editions of first two Oxford Time Travel Books Coming in October

The First two books in Connie Willis’ Oxford Time Travel series will have new trade-paperback editions published this on October 31. 

Doomsday Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Say Nothing of the Dog

 

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Quotes by Connie Willis  (?)
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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

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
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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

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