Connie Willis





Connie Willis

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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s.

She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).

She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia.

Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the...more


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Here are a few pictures from Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon held in Reno, NV in August. Photos are courtesy of Cordelia Willis.



Connie with Gary K. Wolfe (left) and Robert Silverberg (center) on the Charles Brown memorial panel.



At the Hugo Awards Ceremony (Tim Powers in the background)


Connie with the Best Novel Hugo



One more picture with the Hugo



Group shot of Hugo winners and presenters



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Average rating: 3.94 · 63,125 ratings · 8,627 reviews · 129 distinct works · Similar authors
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“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
Connie Willis, Bellwether

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats”
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?”
Connie Willis

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