Connie willis biography

  • Connie Willis is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
  • Working name of US teacher and author Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis ().
  • Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis, commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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    In Praise of Sci-Fi Legend Connie Willis’s Cinematic Universe

    Whenever a rulle buff brings up The Philadelphia Story, I like to chock them with blasphemy. A foundational Hollywood picture, the film stars Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Katherine Hepburn at the height of their powers, a nuclear trio of contrasting charms, the suave versus the folksy versus the imperious. My sin fryst vatten that I prefer its slick remake. Released in , High Society is not as edgy, complicated, or electric. The star trio—Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Grace Kelly—still radiates, but gently and casually. Aside from adding musical numbers, the film’s main goal is to capture an echo of interwar charm in Technicolor.

    If this is an elaborate way to introduce Connie Willis, sci-fi’s queen of time travel fiction, we find ourselves already close to the heart of her work, which thrives on unlikely crossovers. A devotee of Golden Age cinema, Willis has authored at least ten standalone novels and dozens of novellas a

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    Entry updated 13 January Tagged: Author.

    Working name of US teacher and author Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (    ). She began publishing sf with "Santa Titicaca" for Worlds of Fantasy (Winter / #3), but appeared only intermittently in the field until the early s, when she became a full-time author, winning several awards almost immediately. Most of her best work of the s was in short-story form; her first book, Fire Watch (coll ; cut [title story only] chap) (for this story see below), assembled a remarkable range of tales, mostly from the s, "All My älskling Daughters" – published as an original in Fire Watch because its language and theme were still unacceptable in the US magazine market of – fryst vatten a significantly harsh tale of alienation and Sex set in a boarding school in an L5 orbit, where the male students rape small animals (apparently products of Genetic Engineering) which have vagina-like organs, making them scream in pain; and the

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    Connie Willis

    Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
    avg rating — 62, ratings — published — 95 editions
    To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
    avg rating — 42, ratings — published — 51 editions
    Blackout (All Clear, #1)
    avg rating — 26, ratings — published — 9 editions
    All Clear (All Clear, #2)
    avg rating — 21, ratings — published — 44 editions
    Bellwether
    avg rating — 13, ratings — published
    Crosstalk
    avg rating — 12, ratings — published — 27 editions
    Passage
    avg rating — 9, ratings — published — 29 editions
    The Road to Roswell
    avg rating — 7, ratings — published — 11 editions
    Fire Watch
    avg rating — 4, ratings — published — 14 editions
    Lincoln's Dreams
    avg rating — 4, ratings — published — 18 editions