Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis
born Denver, Colorado: 31 December 1945
Connie Willis is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as novels, novellas and short fiction.
Her first published SF work was Santa Titicaca (1970/1971) in Worlds of Fantasy #3 but didn’t write full-time until the 1980’s, after which, most of her best short story work was written. Her fiction often contains frequent and passionate references to World War II.
Her first book was the short story collection, Fire Watch (1985). This included All My Darling Daughters, published as an original because its language and sexual theme were still unacceptable in the US magazine market of 1980, Daisy, in the Sun (1979), A Letter from the Clearys (1982), The Sidon in the Mirror (1983) and Blued Moon (1984).
This collection also included the title short story, Fire Watch (1982), which was the first of her Oxford Time Travel series for which she is best known. That series included the novels, Doomsday Book (1992) and To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (1998), and the sub-series of Blackout novels, Blackout (2010) and All Clear (2010).
Other short works include the novella, The Last of the Winnebagos (1988) in Asimov's, At the Rialto (1989) in Omni, Even the Queen (1992) in Asimov's, and Death on the Nile (1993).
Her standalone novels include Water Witch (1982) (co-authored with Cynthia Felice), set on a sand planet where the ability to dowse for water is a precious gift; Light Raid (1989) (co-authored with Felice), concerning a balkanized ruined Earth America fighting off Canadian royalists, Lincoln's Dreams (1987); Promised Land (1989); Remake (1995); Bellwether (1996); Passage (2001); Crosstalk (2016); and The Road to Roswell (2023).
She is another of the authors whose work has frequently appeared in the queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum, an indication that it is remembered with some fondness.
A list of her works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Connie Willis
Wikipedia page: Connie Willis - Wikipedia
born Denver, Colorado: 31 December 1945
Connie Willis is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as novels, novellas and short fiction.
Her first published SF work was Santa Titicaca (1970/1971) in Worlds of Fantasy #3 but didn’t write full-time until the 1980’s, after which, most of her best short story work was written. Her fiction often contains frequent and passionate references to World War II.
Her first book was the short story collection, Fire Watch (1985). This included All My Darling Daughters, published as an original because its language and sexual theme were still unacceptable in the US magazine market of 1980, Daisy, in the Sun (1979), A Letter from the Clearys (1982), The Sidon in the Mirror (1983) and Blued Moon (1984).
This collection also included the title short story, Fire Watch (1982), which was the first of her Oxford Time Travel series for which she is best known. That series included the novels, Doomsday Book (1992) and To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (1998), and the sub-series of Blackout novels, Blackout (2010) and All Clear (2010).
Other short works include the novella, The Last of the Winnebagos (1988) in Asimov's, At the Rialto (1989) in Omni, Even the Queen (1992) in Asimov's, and Death on the Nile (1993).
Her standalone novels include Water Witch (1982) (co-authored with Cynthia Felice), set on a sand planet where the ability to dowse for water is a precious gift; Light Raid (1989) (co-authored with Felice), concerning a balkanized ruined Earth America fighting off Canadian royalists, Lincoln's Dreams (1987); Promised Land (1989); Remake (1995); Bellwether (1996); Passage (2001); Crosstalk (2016); and The Road to Roswell (2023).
She is another of the authors whose work has frequently appeared in the queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum, an indication that it is remembered with some fondness.
A list of her works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Connie Willis
Wikipedia page: Connie Willis - Wikipedia
