Connie Willis
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the '80s and '90s winning, among other awards, eight Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards.
Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel and a group of historians based at Oxford in the future. These pieces include her Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog and the short story "Fire Watch," found in the short story collection of the same name.
Selected Bibliography
Novels:
- Lincoln's Dreams (1988) (John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner)
- Doomsday Book (1992) (Hugo and Nebula)
- Remake (1994)
- Uncharted Territory (1994)
- Bellwether (1996)
- To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) (Hugo)
- Passage (2001)
- Inside Job (2005)
Short story collections:
- Fire Watch (1984), whose title story won the 1982 Hugo and Nebula
- Impossible Things (1993)
- Futures Imperfect (1996)
- Miracle, and Other Christmas Stories (1999)