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  1. The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis, 2007-09-25
  2. Year's Best Fantasy 6 (No. 6) by Bruce Sterling, Esther Friesner, et all 2006-09-15
  3. Futures Imperfect (Three Short Novels) by Connie Willis, 1996
  4. Blackout by Connie Willis, 2010
  5. Promised Land by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice, 1998-08-01
  6. All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis, 2007-11-26
  7. 2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers by Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, et all 1994-01-01
  8. Light Raid by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice, 1990-04-01
  9. A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women by Connie Willis, S. Williams, 2001-10-01
  10. The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3
  11. Le Grand livre by Connie Willis, Jean-Pierre Pugi, 1994-01-01
  12. Sans parler du chien by Connie Willis, 2003-02-03
  13. Water Witch by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice, 1984-02
  14. Even the Queen & Other Short Stories by Connie Willis, 1998-01

21. Patrick Nielsen Hayden - LAcon IV
(3) Harlan Ellison groping connie willis on stage at the Hugos wasn t funny and it wasn t okay. I understand (from third parties; I haven t spoken to her
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It was well-run. It was a lot of fun. It went by in a flash. The Hugos were of course enormously satisfying to both tnh and me. The programming we were on was good. We're very grateful to the committee for moving the blogging panelthe one we shared with Kevin Drum, Cory Doctorow, Phil Plait, and MaryAnn Johansonto a time slot where we didn't have a previous commitment.
That said, here are some notes about the not-so-great which I'd like to get down before memory fades.
(1) I'm acutely aware of the extent to which no Worldcon can possibly use every SF professional who wants to be on the program, and I'm equally aware of the way that every modern Worldcon gets slagged off by prosusually minor proswho think they ought to have been granted more appearances before what they fondly imagine to be their adoring public. My usual advice to such complainers is to stop being ridiculous; the World Science Fiction Convention is a service organization for science fiction fandom, not your personal publicity agency. That said, however, it's appalling to read that David Marusek was told they had no use for him on the program. Come on. Knowing about contemporary SF isn't some kind of optional "special interest." If you have nobody on your committee who has a clue who the interesting and major upcoming SF and fantasy writers are, you should be letting someone else run the Worldcon.

22. Connie Willis On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online
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23. Connie Willis: A Who2 Profile
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Author Connie Willis has been winning science fiction awards since the late 1980s, including Hugo Awards for the novels The Doomsday Book (1992) and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998). Influenced by novels of Victorian England and the science fiction of Robert A. Heinlein , Willis began writing full-time in the early 1980s, starting with short stories published in sci-fi magazines. She won the Hugo and the Nebula in 1983 for the novelette Fire Watch , and since then has been a regular winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Although her books involve some sci-fi elements (especially time travel), she is more known for psychological dramas that mix farce with fantasy. Her short stories include "Even the Queen' and "Close Encounter"; her novels include the John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Lincoln's Dreams (1987), the tongue-in-cheek fantasy

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25. Connie Willis, Miracle And Other Christmas Stories
willis neatly weaves in references to both Miracle on 34th Street (the best Christmas movie ever) and It s a Wonderful Life (not the best) into her tale
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The eight short stories in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories are all reflections on and of the Christmas season, and each story shines in its own way. In "Miracle," Lauren, an office worker, finds that the Spirit of Christmas Present (as in gift) has taken up residence in her apartment, refusing to leave until he gives Lauren her heart's desire and in general wreaking havoc in her life. (While acknowledging that not too many people have the opportunity to have a Christmas tree decorated with authentic Yanomamo ornaments in their kitchens, Lauren would rather not.) Willis neatly weaves in references to both Miracle on 34th Street (the best Christmas movie ever) and It's a Wonderful Life (not the best) into her tale which is full of the loopy cross purpose conversations she does so well. A housewife/choir member is the narrator of "Inn." While rehearsing for the Christmas Eve service, she finds herself desperately assisting a young homeless couple who have lost their way desperately, because she alone among all those in the church that night recognizes just who they are. Here Willis demonstrates her capacity for creating deft character portraits with only a few phrases: Sharon, the narrator, whose efforts to help snowball with complications; the reverend, who collects goods for the homeless but doesn't want them in her church her use of the word "homeless" as a noun is particularly chilling; the elderly reverend who reads the same sermon every year, who turns out to have a key to the puzzle, among others.

26. Connie Willis
Brief biography written by the New England Science Fiction Association.
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(Return to Boskone 36 Program Book) Connie Willis by Deb Geisler Mention Connie Willis to the average SF reader, and they will probably think of her Hugo and Nebula Awards, or the John W. Campbell Award she won for her first novel, . They will think of her vivid writing, her wit, and her piercing evaluations of social movement excesses. But there is a lot more to Connie Willis than her fiction. She loves the soap opera All My Children (she’s been an avid viewer since it started). She watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial. She sings soprano in a Congregationalist choir, and claims that everything you need to know about the world "can be learned in a church choir." And she’s much in demand as a speaker and program participant at conventions, making a notable (and much-acclaimed) appearance as the Toastmaster at L.A.con III in 1996. Kristin Lavransdatter ("Nobody’s ever heard of her, even though she won the Nobel prize in 1920, but her books are wonderful"). She has heroes: "Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person," she told SF Weekly [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue17/interview.html] "[Robert] Heinlein is probably the biggest influence on my writing," she noted in an August 1998 online chat with Gardner Dozois [available at http://www.cybling.com/artists/awillis.html]. "I love his sense of humor, his down-to-earth approach to the future, and his clever plots."

27. Welcome To Connie Willis.TV!
www.conniewillis.tv/ 4k - Cached - Similar pages I Should Be Writing » Blog Archive » ISBW 72 - connie willis I certainly know connie willis’s work but have not read anything by her. That is an oversight that I will be taking care of immediately. Great work Mur!
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28. Wormhole Books
connie willis is the mosthonored writer in the science fiction field. For her fiction she’s received six Nebula and eight Hugo Awards, not to mention a
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"A Bill Geistian hegira through the sacred sites of the saucer-obsessed: the crackpot museums, roadside attractions, theme diners ("Best Alien Chicken in Town"), and souvenir shops. Locus Magazine "Her observations of UFO obsession and general foibles of the human condition shouldn't be missed." Talebones Collector's bookmark shipped free with purchase! Our bookmark series Roswell, Vegas, and Area 51: Travels with Courtney Connie Willis Get to know the author in a Wormhole exclusive interview Cover Art: Edward Bryant and Joanna Erbach Interior Photography : Connie Willis and Edward Bryant Published: September 2002 39 pages Limited Edition: 750 chapbooks and 200 hardbacks signed by the author and sold individually, 250 chapbooks sold only in a boxed set Chapbook: $15.00 HARDBACK: $35.00 ISBN 1-932030-09-3 ISBN 1-932030-08-5 An excerpt from Roswell, Vegas, and Area 51 "Comedy is kind of like a pin poking at balloonsthey don't explode unless they're already far too full of hot air." Connie Willis An exclusive interview with Connie Willis Connie Willis Connie Willis has an adult daughter, Cordelia, and presently lives in Greeley, Colorado, with her physics professor husband Courtney, bulldog Gracie, and a feline or two. To her best knowledge, she has never been abducted by extraterrestrials.

29. Miracle And Other Christmas Stories By Connie Willis - Excerpt - Books - Random
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30. Hugo Nominee
connie willis is currently working on a new novel called All Clear. Set in the same timetravel world as Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog,
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got see got I called her back. The Jaundiced Eye not The Voice of Isus and On the Receiving End The Jaundiced Eye Lord of the Rings The Hulk III Globe The Jaundiced Eye I said so. The Hulk . Plus, the lights and makeup destroy I found that hard to believe. She had skin like honey. worked pay one good loved It was hung with rose, lilac, and silver chiffon floor-length banners and a state-of-the-art lighting system. Stars and planets rotated overhead, and comets occasionally whizzed by. The stage end of the auditorium was hung with gold mylar, and in the center of the stage was a black pyramid-backed throne. Apparently Ariaura did not intend to sit on the floor like the rest of us. One of the ushers gave Kildy a Tom Cruise smile and led her to the end of a cross-legged row on the very hard-looking floor. I was glad Kildy had brought the pillows. wise blocking No But Kildy had lost interest and was leaning across her Right. Or else Ariaura had learned a few lessons from EST, including the fact that people who are distracted by their bladders are less likely to spot gobbledygook, like the stuff Brad was spouting right now:

31. Breaking The Fourth Wall: Review: Doomsday Book By Connie Willis
Review Doomsday Book by connie willis. I don t really like science fiction. I just can t get into books about otherworld creatures on planets that don t
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I don't really like science fiction. I just can't get into books about otherworld creatures on planets that don't exist and so forth (with the notable exception of " The Sparrow " which is one of my favorite books of all time). But one of my fellow bookbloggers recently did a review of "Doomsday Book" (can't for the life of me remember who - sorry!) and the review was SO compelling that I put it on my list without any secondary recommendations. I saw it at the library this week and was in the mood for an impulse read, so I got it.
It's hard to tell the story of this book without spoilers, so I'll have to keep it brief and vague. It's a book about time travel, which I love (other favorites are " The Time Traveler's Wife " and " The Traveler "). The book is set around 2050, and a young historian wants to travel back in time to England in the early 1300's, just before the Black Death (bubonic plague) killed half of Europe.
So many things go wrong that you are sitting on the edge of the couch, in danger of falling off while you wait - until the

32. Connie Willis Webcast (Library Of Congress)
Speaker Biography connie willis began writing full time in the early 1980s and her everincreasing list of short stories quickly caught the attention of
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Born on New Year's Eve of 1945 in Denver, Colorado, Connie Willis began writing and had her first short fiction published in 1971. Her writing was very quickly recognized for its excellence, and she received her first nomination for a Hugo Award in 1980 for her short story Daisy, In The Sun . Three years later, she won the Nebula award for her short story A Letter From The Clearys , in...
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34. The SF Site Featured Review: Passage
connie willis was born in 1945 in Denver, Colorado. Her first SF publication was The Secret of Santa Titicaca published in Worlds of Fantasy,
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Connie Willis was born in 1945 in Denver, Colorado. Her first SF publication was "The Secret of Santa Titicaca" published in Worlds of Fantasy , the Winter 1970-71 issue. For her first novel, she collaborated with Cynthia Felice on Water Witch . She has won Hugo and Nebula Awards for Fire Watch , "The Last of the Winnebagos," Doomsday Book and "Even the Queen," a Hugo Award for "Death on the Nile," and Nebula Awards for "A Letter for the Clearys" and "At the Rialto." To Say Nothing of the Dog has won the Hugo for Best Novel. ISFDB Bibliography
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Advertisement Connie Willis is the one of the most popular SF writers of our time. She is known for madcap comedy, indeed screwball comedy, in stories like "Blued Moon," "Spice Pogrom," and in her novel To Say Nothing of the Dog . But she is at least as likely to tug at the reader's heartstrings, in wrenching works like "The Last of the Winnebagos," "Daisy, in the Sun," "Fire Watch," Lincoln's Dreams , and Doomsday Book . When she is off her form, the comedy can seem forced and sometimes cruel, and the tragedy can seem manipulative and bathetic. But when she is on her form, her funny stuff is wonderful, and her sadder stuff truly moving. And she in on her form, in many readers' eyes, sufficiently often that she has won eight Hugos and six Nebulas.

35. Connie Willis Biography - Connie Willis Comments:
connie willis is one of the most beloved and respected writers in the field of science fiction. For her novels and short fiction, willis has earned more
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Find all books written by Connie Willis on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Constance Elaine, Denver, Colorado, 1945. Education: University of Northern Colorado, B.A. in English and elementary education. Career: Elementary school teacher, 1967-68, and junior high teacher, 1968-69, Branford, Connecticut, public schools. Awards: Nebula award, 1982, and Hugo award, 1982, both for Fire Watch; The Last of the Winnebagos; Campbell Memorial award for best science fiction novel, 1988, for Doomsday Book; Locus award, 1993, for Impossible Things The Soul Selects; Hugo award, 1999, for To Say Nothing of the Dog. Agent: Ralph Vicinanza, 111 Eighth Ave., Suite 1501, New York, New York 10011, U.S.A.
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Water Witch , with Cynthia Felice. New York, Ace Berkeley, 1980. New York, Bantam, 1986. Light Raid , with Cynthia Felice. New York, Ace Berkeley, 1988. Doomsday Book . New York, Bantam, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. Impossible Things.

36. Salon.com Books | "Passage" By Connie Willis
May 17, 2001 connie willis Passage is a suspense novel in the same way that Alfred Hitchcock s Psycho is a slasher movie; it defies the genre while
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  • "Passage" by Connie Willis Scientists who study near-death experiences are pulled into their own research in a brainy, eerie, genre-defying suspense novel. By Laura Miller Connie Willis' "Passage" is a suspense novel in the same way that Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" is a slasher movie; it defies the genre while still delivering its thrills. I'm tempted to dub "Passage" a neurological detective story with metaphysical leanings, but even that description goes too far in nailing down this mercurial work. I'm sure, though, that it's one of the smartest books I've read in years; its construction is a marvel of ingenuity and what's even more remarkable, given the wizardry of Willis' storytelling its intellectual honesty is impeccable. "Passage" begins on a typically frazzled workday for Joanna Lander, a research psychologist who works at a large, rambling city hospital and who has for two years been collecting the oral accounts of people who have "coded" become clinically dead and then returned to life: near-death experiences. Richard Wright, a new neurologist at the institution, asks her to team up with him in his studies of a drug that can simulate an NDE. Richard uses a new technology called a "RIPT scan" that "simultaneously photographs the electrochemical activity in different subsections of the brain for a 3-D picture of neural activity in the working brain. Or the dying brain." He can manage the technological aspects of the research, but he needs her to help him map the images in the RIPT scans to the distinctive sensations reported by people undergoing NDEs.

    37. L.A.con IV: Author Guest Of Honor: Connie Willis
    In 1971, connie willis began a career as a science fiction author which has brought great praise for her novels and short fiction. Over the years, she s won
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    E-mail: contact us (from Progress Report 0) In 1971, Connie Willis began a career as a science fiction author which has brought great praise for her novels and short fiction. Over the years, she's won eight Hugos and six Nebulas and who knows how many nominations and other awards. Her personality, charm, and sense of humor has made her highly regarded as a raconteur, toastmaster, and lover of Harrison Ford (define that last as you will). Photo by Anastasia Hunter, 1999.
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    39. Connie Willis
    Author connie willis is not well known by name however her work has earned her 8 Hugos and 6 Nebulas awards, more than any other author in the science
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    Executive summary: Doomsday Book Lincoln's Dreams Author Connie Willis is not well known by name however her work has earned her 8 Hugos and 6 Nebulas awards, more than any other author in the science fiction genre. Her best known novels include Lincoln's Dreams (John W. Campbell Memorial Award), Doomsday Book (Nebula Award), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Hugo), and Passage (Locus Award). Considered one of the current masters of the short story format, she has published a vast amount of short fiction, including the award winners "Even the Queen", "Fire Watch", "The Last of the Winnebagos", "A Letter from the Clearys", "Death on the Nile", and "The Winds of Marble Arch", and "At the Rialto". She is a frequent and popular speaker at science fiction conventions. Willis was born Constance Elaine Trimmer in 1945. When she was 12 years old her mother died during childbirth. Willis would later relate that this already abrupt and painful transition was made more difficult by hordes of well-meaning relatives who came to her spouting trite platitudes, giving her little comfort and generating a great deal of anger. Instead she found solace in books that showed the reality of coming to terms with death and other difficult experiences, an approach that would shape her own approach to such subjects. Her irritation at the sentiment foisted on her after her mother's death eventually spurred her to tackle topics like near death experience and UFOs, dealing out suspense and mayhem with satirical wit.

    40. Connie WIllis Inside Job Reviewed By Rick Kleffel
    Well, in the talent of connie willis at least. Belief and lack thereof are the axes around which Inside Job revolves. Rob is the editor of debunker s
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    Inside Job Connie Willis Subterranean Press US Hardcover First Edition ISBN 1-596-06024-7 Publication Date: 08-30-2005 99 Pages; $35 Date Reviewed: 10-23-05
    REFERENCES COLUMNS Mystery General Fiction Horror Happily, this review is not as cruel as I might first have thought it would be. I know that the first and only edition of 'Inside Job' sold out quickly, and given that, I was a bit hesitant to parade my enjoyment of Willis' charming, thought-provoking comedy. But a quick examination reveals that there are copies to be had, and the price is not too dear. Now, great reading is worth just about any price you have to pay. 'Inside Job' may require a bit of book-sleuthing on your part to find it, but it will be well worth the trouble. This is one of those one-size-fits-all works, with elements to turn just about any reader into a believer. Well, in the talent of Connie Willis at least. Belief and lack thereof are the axes around which 'Inside Job' revolves. Rob is the editor of debunker's journal, Jaundiced Eye. Kildy is his model-gorgeous, rich-girl-on-a-quest employee. The machinations of 'Inside Job' begin to unfold when Kildy insists that Rob see a second rate channeler who calls herself Ariaura. Seemingly off her act, Ariaura is experiencing problems. In the midst of a fairly smooth shtick, she's dissing herself and channeling in general. But what Kildy has detected suggests something unexpected. Kildy unearths solid evidence that Ariaura is channeling none other than H. L. Mencken. Who is conning who or is everything exactly as it seems? Is a second rate psychic channeling the worlds most entertaining skeptic?

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