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VJ Books Presents Author Connie Willis!

Author Connie WillisConnie Willis is the award winning author of Doomsday Book, Passage, To Say Nothing of the Dog and Bellwether. Connie has been awarded 10 Hugo Awards, 11 Locus Poll Awards and 6 Nebula Awards. Her stories have an epic feel to them and range from laugh out loud funny to deadly serious. The first half of her newest novel, Blackout, is being published in February 2010 with the second half, All Clear, being published in the fall.

Her most recent full novel, Passage, deals with the study of near-death experiences and the sinking of the Titanic. It was nominated for the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Her most recent releases include a special collection of her short fiction, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, and All Seated on the Ground, both from Subterranean Press.

Connie Willis Book List and Awards
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Connie Willis Bibliography & Awards


Novels & Novelas

  • Water Witch (1982) – with Cynthia Felice
  • Lincoln's Dreams (1987) – John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1988
  • Light Raid (1989) – with Cynthia Felice
  • Doomsday Book (1992) – Nebula Award winner, BSFA Award nominee, 1992; Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, Clarke Award nominee, 1993
  • Remake (1994) – Hugo Award nominee, 1996
  • Uncharted Territory (1994)
  • Bellwether (1996) – Nebula Award nominee, 1997
  • Promised Land (1997) – with Cynthia Felice
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998) – Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1999; Nebula Award nominee, 1998
  • Passage (2001) – Locus SF Award winner, Hugo and Clarke Awards nominee, 2002; Nebula Award nominee, 2001
  • Inside Job (2005)
  • D.A. (2007)
  • All Seated on the Ground (2007)
  • Blackout (2010)
  • All Clear (2010)
  • All About Emily (2011)
  • Crosstalk (2016)

Short Stories
  • "Samaritan" (1978) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Capra Corn" (1978) – Collected in the "Limited/Lettered Editions" of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Daisy, in the Sun" (1979) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "And Come from Miles Around" (1979) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "The Child Who Cries for the Moon" (1981) – Collected in A Spadeful of Spacetime
  • "Distress Call" (1981) – Published separately by Roadkill Press and collected in two anthologies
  • "A Letter from the Clearys" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "Fire Watch" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "Service For the Burial of the Dead" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Lost and Found" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "The Father of the Bride" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "Mail Order Clone" (1982) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "And Also Much Cattle" (1982)
  • "The Sidon in the Mirror" (1983) – Collected in Fire Watch
  • "A Little Moonshine" (1983)
  • "Blued Moon" (1984) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Cash Crop" (1984) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Substitution Trick" (1985) – Collected in the "Limited/Lettered Editions" of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "The Curse of Kings" (1985) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "All My Darling Daughters" (1985) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "And Who Would Pity a Swan?" (1985)
  • "With Friends Like These" (1985)
  • "Chance" (1986) – Collected in Impossible Things, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium, and Gardner Dozois' Modern Classics of Science Fiction
  • "Spice Pogrom" (1986) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "The Pony" (1986) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Winter's Tale" (1987) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "Schwarzschild Radius" (1987) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "Circus Story" (1987)
  • "Lord of Hosts" (1987)
  • "Ado" (1988) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "The Last of the Winnebagos" (1988) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "Dilemma" (1989)
  • "Time Out" (1989) – Collected in Impossible Things
  • "At the Rialto" (1989) – Collected in Impossible Things, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and "Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories" (1998) recording and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "Cibola" (1990)
  • "Miracle" (1991) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Jack" (1991) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "In the Late Cretaceous" (1991) – Collected in Impossible Things and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Even the Queen" (1992) – Collected in Impossible Things, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and "Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories" (1998) recording and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "Inn" (1993) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Close Encounter" (1993)
  • "Death on the Nile" (1993) – Collected in "Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories" (1998) recording and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "A New Theory Explaining the Unpredictability of Forecasting the Weather" (1993)
  • "Why the World Didn't End Last Tuesday" (1994)
  • "Adaptation" (1994) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective" (1996) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "In Coppelius's Toyshop" (1996) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Nonstop to Portales" (1996) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Newsletter" (1997) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "Cat's paw" (1999) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
  • "Epiphany" (1999) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "The Winds of Marble Arch" (1999) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
  • "deck.halls@boughs/holly" (2001)
  • "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" (2003) – Collected in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium
  • "New Hat" (2008)
  • "Now Showing" (2014) - Collected in Rogues (anthology)

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