Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-09995-9
FYI: Willis's ""The Soul Selects Her Own Society..."" has won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
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Connie Willis. Del Rey, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-5247-9686-0
SFWA Grand Master Willis, noted for science fiction novels that range from harrowing (Doomsday Book) to hilarious (To Say Nothing of the Dog), displays her penchant for screwball satire in these three previously published novellas, which have not...
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Connie Willis. Del Rey, $17 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-0-399-18234-1
SFWA Grand Master Willis (Crosstalk) offers up a hearty helping of Christmas cheer with sprinklings of mystery and magic in this reprint collection, drawn from over 30 years of work. She begins by describing her love for all things Christmas and her
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Connie Willis. Del Rey, $28 (495p) ISBN 978-0-345-54067-6
SFWA Grand Master Willis’s first novel since 2010’s Blackout/All Clear is a rollicking send-up of obsessive cell phone usage in too-near-future America. A brain-altering medical procedure designed to enhance lovers’ abilities to connect emotionally...
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Connie Willis. Del Rey, $27 (496p) ISBN 978-0-345-54064-5
This anthology demolishes any attempt to pigeonhole SFWA Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Famer Willis (Blackout/All Clear). Her six Nebula Awards and 10 Hugo Awards confirm her eminence in speculative fiction, but her versatile range and...
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Connie Willis. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-452-2
Willis (Blackout/All Clear) works sweet, sentimental magic in this charming novella. Broadway star Claire Havilland realizes that her best youthful roles are behind her and being called a “legend” is career killing. Enter perky teen whirlwind Emily,
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Connie Willis, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-553-11124-8
In a departure from her usual historical theme, Willis (Miracle and Other Christmas Stories) pries open the door at the end of the tunnel of Near Death Experience (NDE) while holding firmly to her endearing brand of exasperated humor. Dr. Joanna...
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Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-11111-8
The witty, literate Willis offers a wonderfully enjoyable ode to Christmas with this collection of eight fantastic seasonal tales. In ""Inn,"" Willis turns what could have been a maudlin church choir story into a poignant tale with a time-travel...
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Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05197-1
As a researcher for a popular historical novelist, Jeff Johnston finds himself immersed in the minutiae of the Civil War, tracking down the name of a general's favorite horse or the spot where Lincoln's son was buried. His meeting with Annie, the...
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Connie Willis, Author . Subterranean $35 (99p) ISBN 978-1-59606-024-1
In Willis's charming tale of the paranormal, Rob, a professional skeptic, and Kildy, his too-good-to-be-true ex-actress sidekick, try to debunk a psychic channeler, who just might be hosting the spirit of legendary skeptic H.L. Mencken. Willis...
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Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $11.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-37562-6
In Willis's (Doomsday) fifth solo novel, her practiced screwball style yields a clever story which, while imperfect, is a sheer pleasure to read. In the very near future, sociologist/statistician Sandy Foster is researching the source of fads at a...
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Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08131-2
This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Willis ( Lincoln's Dreams ) is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in time to...
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Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-553-56294-1
Willis's short novel could hardly be more different from her last, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book , which dealt with a time-travelling jaunt from the 21st-century back to Europe during the days of the Black Plague. On a rather...
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Connie Willis, Author Spectra Books $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-553-56436-5
Willis ( Lincoln's Dreams ) demonstrates her sly wit and quirky perspective in this solid collection of 11 previously published science fiction pieces. Romance becomes entangled with interplanetary negotiations when a Navy linguist and the neglected
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Connie Willis, Author . Spectra $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-80319-8
With her trademark understated, eloquent style, Willis expands the conceit of her Hugo and Nebula winning 1982 story “Fire Watch” into a page-turning thriller, her first novel since 2001’s Passage
. Three young historians travel...
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Connie Willis, Author . Subterranean $40 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59606-110-1
Willis makes brilliant short fiction look easy in this collection of 23 novellas and short stories, which display a powerful range of sensibility, from poignant tenderness (“Inn”) and heartbreak (“Samaritan”) to close-to-the-b
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Connie Willis, Author, J. K. Potter, Illustrator . Subterranean $20 (76p) ISBN 978-1-59606-120-0
Some high school kids would do anything to be an IASA space cadet, but not Theodora Baumgarten in Willis's cheerfully tongue-in-cheek SF novella. "There's no air, you're squashed into a ship the size of a juice can, and it takes...
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Connie Willis, Author, C Willis, Author Bantam Books $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-553-37437-7
Willis (Doomsday Book), a fan of old movies, uses them cleverly and thoughtfully in Remake, her fourth solo novel. Roughly 20 years into the future, computer graphics have ended live production in Hollywood. Tom, the narrator, reluctantly pillages...
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Connie Willis, Author, Gibbons, Author, Willis, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-100372-3
The latest collection of trophy-winners and runners-up for the Nebulas, which are awarded by the SFWA, is a rainbow of styles and content. Editor Willis (Bellwether), herself a six-time Nebula winner, introduces each selection with an enthusiastic...
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Connie Willis, Author, Cynthia Felice, With Ace Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-441-00405-8
Since they first teamed up, in Water Witch, Willis and Felice have been a solidly successful pair known for smoothly mixing SF adventure with humor and light romance. Their latest collaboration follows young Delanna Milliflores back home to the...
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Connie Willis. Subterranean, $40 (112p) ISBN 978-1-5960-6963-3
This reissue of Nebula and Hugo Award–winner Willis’s stunning WWII-set novella, originally published in 1991, takes readers into the mind of Jack Harker, a member of a London air raid rescue squad. When a new volunteer, Jack Settle, joins the squad,
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Connie Willis. Subterranean, $40 (120p) ISBN 978-1-64524-019-8
Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Willis (Blackout/All Clear) tests the boundaries of the science fiction genre with a grounded, realistic story that’s sure to impress. Every year, Ori must weather exhausting holiday dinners with a strange amalgamation...
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Connie Willis. Del Rey, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-49985-6
Multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Willis (Blackout/All Clear) returns with a delightful, intergalactic twist on the romantic comedy. Francie only agrees to show up for her college roommate’s doomed wedding in Roswell, N.Mex., because she hopes...
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