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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than any other writer—most recently the "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear (2010). She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011. Several of her works feature time travel by history students at the future University of Oxford, called the Time Travel series or the Oxford Time Travel Series. They are the short story "Fire Watch" (1982, also in several anthologies and the 1985 collection of the same name), the novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1992 and 1997), and the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010). All four won the annual Hugo Award, and Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making her the first author to win Hugo awards for all books in a series. Personal life Willis is a 1967 graduate of Colorado State College, now the University of Northern Colorado, where she completed degrees in English and Elementary Education. She lives in Greeley, Colorado, with her husband Courtney Willis, a former professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. They have one daughter, Cordelia. In a 1996 interview Willis said, "I sing soprano in a Congregationalist church choir. It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir." Career Willis's first published story was "The Secret of Santa Titicaca" in Worlds of Fantasy, Winter 1970 (December). At least seven stories followed (1978–81) before her debut novel, Water Witch by Willis and Cynthia Felice, published by Ace Books in 1982. After receiving a National Endowment for the Arts grant that year, she left her teaching job and became a full-time writer. Scholar Gary K. Wolfe has written, "Willis, the erstwhile stand-up superstar of SF conventions—having her as your MC is like getting Billy Crystal back as host of the Oscars—and the author of some of the field's funniest stories, is a woman of considerably greater complexity and gravity than her personal popularity reflects, and for all her facility at screwball comedy knock-offs and snappy parody, she wants us to know that she's a writer of some gravity as well." Willis is known for writing "romantic 'screwball' comedy in the manner of 1940s Hollywood movies." Much of Willis's writing explores the social sciences. She often weaves technology into her stories in order to prompt readers to question what impact it has on the world. For instance, Lincoln's Dreams plumbs not just the psychology of dreams, but also their role as indicators of disease. The story portrays a young man's unrequited love for a young woman who might or might not be experiencing reincarnation or precognition, and whose outlook verges on suicidal. Similarly, Bellwether is almost exclusively concerned with human psychology. 2006 Hugo Awards ceremony controversy At the 2006 Hugo Awards ceremony, Willis presented writer Harlan Ellison with a special committee award. When Ellison got to the podium, Willis asked him "Are you going to be good?" When she asked the question a second time, Ellison put the microphone in his mouth, to the crowd's laughter. He then momentarily put his hand on her left breast. Ellison subsequently complained that Willis refused to acknowledge his apology. Awards Novels Other awards: Lincoln's Dreams (1987) won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Doomsday Book (1992) was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award. Passage (2001) received an Arthur C. Clarke Award nomination. Novellas "Chance" (1986) and "The Winds of Marble Arch" (1999) were nominated for the World Fantasy Award. Novelettes Short stories Lifetime achievement Willis was presented with the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award at the Nebula Awards banquet in May 2012. She has received a number of other awards, including an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2008. Bibliography Novels and novellas Stand-alone 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) Promised Land (1997) (with Cynthia Felice) Uncharted Territory (1994) Remake (1995) – Hugo Award nominee, 1996 Bellwether (1996) – Nebula Award nominee, 1997 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) All About Emily (2011) Crosstalk (2016) I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land (2018) Jack (2020 as book, first published 1991) Take a Look at the Five and Ten (2020) The Road to Roswell (2023) Oxford time travel Doomsday Book (1992) – Nebula Award winner, BSFA Award nominee, 1992; Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, Clarke Award nominee, 1993 To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998) – Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1999; Nebula Award nominee, 1998 Blackout (2010) – Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards, 2011 winner All Clear (2010) – Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards, 2011 winner Short fiction collections Fire Watch (Oxford time travel series, 1984), whose title story won the 1982 Hugo and Nebula Awards Impossible Things (1993) – contains three Nebula Award winners, two of which also won Hugo Awards Futures Imperfect (1996) – omnibus edition of Uncharted Territory, Remake and Bellwether. Even the Queen and Other Short Stories (1998) – sound recording of five stories read by Connie Willis including "Even the Queen", "Death on the Nile", and "At the Rialto" Willis, Connie (1999). Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Bantam Spectra. The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium (2007) Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis (2013), Hugo and Nebula award-winning short fiction ISBN 978-0-575-13114-9 A Lot Like Christmas: Stories (2017) – Omnibus edition combining Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, several additional short stories, and the novellas All About Emily and All Seated On The Ground. Terra Incognita (2018) – Collected edition of Uncharted Territory, Remake, and D.A.. Short fiction "Samaritan" (1978) – Collected in Fire Watch and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories "Capra Corn" (1978) – Collected in the "Limited/Lettered Editions" of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories "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 an.... Discover the Connie Willis popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Connie Willis books.