Much of Willis's writing explores the social sciences. Willis is known for writing "romantic 'screwball' comedy in the manner of 1940s Hollywood movies."
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." After receiving a National Endowment for the Arts grant that year, she left her teaching job and became a full-time writer. At least seven stories followed (1978–81) before her debut novel, Water Witch by Willis and Cynthia Felice, published by Ace Books in 1982. Willis's first published story was "The Secret of Santa Titicaca" in Worlds of Fantasy, Winter 1970 (December). It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir." Career In a 1996 interview Willis said, "I sing soprano in a Congregationalist church choir. She lives in Greeley, Colorado, with her husband Courtney Willis, a former professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. Willis is a 1967 graduate of Colorado State College, now the University of Northern Colorado, where she completed degrees in English and Elementary Education. 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.
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 (19), and the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010). 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.
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. 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).
Time travel war, especially World War II heroism courtship moresĭoomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Blackout/All Clear, " The Last of the Winnebagos"ĭamon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus AwardĬonstance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Science fiction, social satire, comedy of manners, comic science fiction
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