Connie Willis Biography
Connie Willis Age
Connie Willis was born on December 31, 1945, in Denver, Colorado, United States. Connie Willis is 73 years old as of 2018.
Connie Willis Net worth
Connie Willis earns her income from the source of her science fiction and fantasy industries and so many others. She also gets her income from Awards industries for her work hard. Her net is under review but we will update you very soon.
Connie Willis Husband
Connie Willis is married to Courtney Willis former Professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. The couples were blessed with one daughter, Cordelia.
Connie Willis Education
Connie Willis attended the University of Northern Colorado where she completed degrees in English and Elementary Education.
Connie Willis Author | science fiction and fantasy writer
Connie Willis first published the 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.” She 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.
Other Willis stories explore the so-called “hard” sciences, following in the classic science fiction tradition. “The Sidon in the Mirror” harks back to the interplanetary and interstellar romanticism of the 1930s and 1940s. “Samaritan” is another take on the theme of Heinlein’s “Jerry Was a Man”, while “Blued Moon” is similarly reminiscent of Heinlein’s “The Year of the Jackpot”.
2006 Hugo Awards ceremony
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.
She has worked in Several works feature and time travel by history students at the faculty of the future University of Oxford sometimes called the 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), as well as the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010). All four won the annual Hugo Award but Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Connie Willis 2006 Hugo Awards ceremony
Connie Willis 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. She subsequently complained that Willis refused to acknowledge his apology.
Connie Willis Religious beliefs
Connie Willis is a Christian. In 1996, she wrote, “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.”
Connie Willis Awards
Hugo Awards
Wins
- Fire Watch : novelette: 1983
- The Last of the Winnebagos : novella: 1989
- Doomsday Book: a novel : 1993
- Even the Queen: short story: 1993
- Death on the Nile: short story: 1994
- To Say Nothing of the Dog: a novel : 1999
- The Winds of Marble Arch : novella: 2000
- Inside Job : novella: 2006
- All Seated on the Ground : novella: 2008
- Blackout/All Clear: novel (published in two parts): 2011
Nominations
- Daisy, In the Sun: short story: 1980
- The Sidon in the Mirror : novelette: 1984
- Blue Moon : novelette: 1985
- Spice Pogrom : novella: 1987
- At the Rialto : novelette: 1990
- Time-Out : novella: 1990
- Cibola: short story: 1991
- In the Late Cretaceous: short story: 1992
Nebula Awards
Wins
- Fire Watch : novelette: 1983
- A Letter from the Clearys: short story: 1983
- The Last of the Winnebagos: novella: 1988
- At the Rialto : novelette: 1990
- Doomsday Book: a novel : 1993[18]
- Even the Queen: short story: 1993
- Blackout/All Clear : novel: 2010[23]
Nominations
- The Sidon in the Mirror : novelette: 1984
- Schwarzschild Radius : novelette: 1988
- Jack : novella: 1992
- Death on the Nile : novelette: 1994
- Bellwether: a novel : 1998
- To Say Nothing of the Dog: a novel : 1999
- Passage: a novel : 2002
- Just Like the Ones, We Used to Know: novella: 2005
Locus Awards
Wins
- Doomsday Book: SF novel: 1993
- To Say Nothing of the Dog: SF Novel: 1999
- Passage: SF novel: 2001
- Blackout/All Clear: novel (published in two volumes): 2010
Connie Willis Novels and novellas
- Water Witch (1982) – with Cynthia Felice
- Lincoln’s Dreams (1987) – John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1988[25]
- Light Raid (1989) – with Cynthia Felice
- Doomsday Book (1992) – Nebula Award winner, BSFA Award nominee, 1992;[26] Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, Clarke Award nominee, 1993[18]
- Remake (1994) – Hugo Award nominee, 1996
- Uncharted Territory (1994)
- Bellwether (1996) – Nebula Award nominee, 1997
- Promised Land (1997) – with Cynthia Felice
Connie Willis Books | Novels
- Doomsday Book (novel) 1992
- Terra Incognita: Three Novellas 2018
- A Lot Like Christmas 2017
- All Clear 2010
- All about Emily 2011
- I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land 2018
- The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories 2013
- All Seated on the Ground 2007
- Passage (Willis novel) 2001
- Blackout/All Clear 2010
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