The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis After a virus has killed all of the dogs on Earth, the Humane Society (“The Society”) has been given the power to prosecute and punish anyone who, even accidentally, harms an animal. The government has started putting walls around highways, tracking vehicles with videocameras, and banning recreational […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Connie Willis | Audio, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Jack by Connie Willis Subterranean Press is reissuing Connie Willis’s moody and bleak novella Jack (1991), which was a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo awards and has appeared in several anthologies over the years. It’s set during the London Blitz in WWII, one of Willis’ favorite settings for her works, including the time-travel novels […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4.5 | Connie Willis | Horror, Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Although it took a good two-thirds of the novel for me to decide, I’ve come to the conclusion that I really enjoyed this multiple award-winning book by Connie Willis. At its core, Doomsday Book is sci-fi time travel, but it’s got depth and intelligence, and leaves little wonder that it […]
Read MoreJason Golomb´s rating: 4 | Connie Willis | Hugo Award, Locus Award, Mythopoeic Award, Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis Miracle and Other Christmas Stories (1999) is a collection of eight short science fiction and fantasies by Connie Willis, plus an introduction and an afterword. It was on sale for $1.99 in early December 2016 ― a great value. It combines Willis’ heartfelt love for Christmas with a […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Connie Willis | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Inside Job by Connie Willis I have a goal of eventually reading all of the major SFF award winners, including novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories, so that’s why I picked up Connie Willis’s Inside Job when I saw that it was available on audio. Inside Job won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Connie Willis | Audio, Hugo Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis Tom and his wife are visiting London so Tom can attend an academic conference while his wife goes shopping with a friend. When Tom takes the Tube to the conference, he feels a strange wind in the Underground. It’s more than just the normal drafts created by […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Connie Willis | Audio, Hugo Award | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis With Blackout and All Clear, which together comprise a single fluid story, Connie Willis returns to the time travel universe that was home to her acclaimed early novel Doomsday Book. If anything, she has only gotten better with, ahem, time. In the late 21st century, time travel is a […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 5 | Connie Willis | Hugo Award, Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
All About Emily by Connie Willis Claire Havilland is an aging Broadway actress who considers herself too old to wear a leotard and fishnets, but is not quite ready to be called a “legend.” One of her most successful roles was playing Margo Channing in the Broadway musical adaption of the film All About Eve. […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Connie Willis | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis Connie Willis has received a staggering eleven Hugo and seven Nebula awards in her career, an achievement nobody has equaled. Her induction in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and receiving the SFWA Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 2011 can hardly be called […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 4 | Connie Willis | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Crosstalk by Connie Willis In Crosstalk, Connie Willis’ new near-future science fiction novel, Briddey works for Commspan, a smartphone company that is anxious to compete with Apple. For the last six weeks Briddey has been in a whirlwind romance with Trent, a hot young executive at Commspan, who swept Briddey off her feet with his […]
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I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis Jim is visiting Manhattan, doing publicity for his blog, Gone for Good, and hoping to sell it as a book to a publisher. The point of Jim’s blog, and his sincere belief, is that things dying out and disappearing ― payphones, elevator operators, VHS […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 3 | Connie Willis | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan My first and foremost complaint — and this is really a quibble more than anything else — is that the title doesn’t tell you what year this anthology belongs to. Which isn’t really a problem if you bought it recently […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 4 | Connie Willis, Ian McDonald, Jeffrey Ford, Jonathan Strahan, Peter S. Beagle | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 edited by Kevin J. Anderson The Nebula Awards are one of the great institutions in science fiction and fantasy. Each year since 1965, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have voted for the Best Novel, Novella (40,000-17,500 words), Novelette (17,500-7,500 words), and Short Story […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Amal El-Mohtar, Connie Willis, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, Kevin J. Anderson, Kij Johnson, Michael Bishop, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rachel Swirsky, Richard Bowes, Saladin Ahmed, Will McIntosh | Nebula Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
“Sailing the Seas of Imagination” is the theme of World Fantasy Convention 2011 here in sunny, temperate San Diego, so you don’t go too long without someone issuing an “Arrrh!” or a panel about what happens under the sea. It’s a great group of people: fans, writers, critics, all people who read with passion and […]
Read More I’m reporting about Day 2 today. Read about Day One here. There were lots of interesting panels today, and it was frustrating to try to boil them down into the ones I wanted to see. My first choice was “Retelling Old Stories: The New Fairy Tales.” I’ve got all the modern fairy tale collections edited by Terri […]
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The 48th Annual Nebula Awards weekend was held by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the San Jose Convention Center in northern California from May 17 through 19, 2013. Terry Weyna and I, who both live in Northern California and both are aspiring writers, decided to see what a bunch of published […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds | Aliette De-Bodard, Connie Willis, E.C. Myers, Gene Wolfe, Joe Haldeman, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rachel Swirsky, Robert Silverberg, Saladin Ahmed, Sarah Beth Durst, Steven Gould, Terry Bisson, William C. Dietz | Nebula Award | Convention | | 4 comments |
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