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Mark your calendar!!!
February 2010
Blackout
Connie's eagerly awaited new novel
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 978-0-553-80319-8 (0-553-80319-0)
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds—great and small—of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide—and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. |
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The Science Fiction Museum and SF Hall of Fame have announced the 2009 Hall of Fame inductees
Each year since 1996, the Hall of Fame has inducted four individuals on the basis of their continued excellence and long-time contribution to the science fiction field.
This year, 2009, Connie Willis has been inducted!
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"Santa Titicaca" published in the Winter 1970-71 edition of Worlds of Fantasy, was the first science fiction story by Connie Willis. Her next novel, Blackout, will be published in February 2010.
A recipient of numerous awards including ten Hugo Awards, six Nebula Awards (the two most prestigious awards in science fiction), and eleven Locus Awards, she is the only author who has won both Hugos and Nebulas in all four fiction categories--novel, novella, novelette, and short story--as well as winning the most awards in any single year--eight in 1993 (Locus Index to SF Awards).
The CBS made-for-TV movie, "Snow Wonder" with Mary Tyler Moore, Camryn Manheim, Jennifer Esposito, Eric Szmanda, Poppy Montgomery and Jason Priestley, was adapted from Connie's novella "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" (Asimov's, December 2003). It aired on November 20, 2005 and was #18 in the ratings (11.77 million viewers) for the week of November 20-26.
Born December 31, 1945, in Denver, Colorado, Constance Elaine (Trimmer) Willis attended the University of Northern Colorado (then Colorado State College) in Greeley from 1963-1967, receiving her BA in English and Elementary Education in May of 1967.
In 2000, a new dormitory on the UNC campus was named the Hansen-Willis Hall to honor both Connie Willis and the late Mildred Hansen, longtime publisher of the Greeley Tribune.
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