Books by Connie Willis
![Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis [10 stories] (2013)](/connie-willis/time-is-the-fire-the-best-of-connie-willis-10-stories/cover)
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review 1: I love Connie Willis' short stories. This collection is uniformly excellent, which isn't surprising when you consider that they're all award-winning stories. Even if you aren't a fan of science fiction, I highly recommend these. Willis' writing style is uncommonly clear and compe...
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review 1: Short stories. All great but my favorite was 'All seated on the ground' in which 6 Aliens arrive at a small town in the USA and just stare at everybody. In an attempt to communicate with them a committee is formed who try everything to get there attention. They are eventually ...
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review 1: If you like time travel OR World War II this is a book you must read. A Hugo winner, historians from the mid-21st century explore WW2 and are trapped by the misbehavior of their time travel technology. Faced with the terror of the Blitz, and the discomfort of being far from hom...
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review 1: This is a pleasant novella, easily digestible in a single reading. Willis incorporates many references to Broadway plays and musicals, and the entire story is a riff on "All About Eve," only with a AI understudy. Many of Willis' novels and stories deal with deep themes and contai...
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review 1: A brilliant story line about time travel and human relationships, beautifully written in Connie Willis' style. Often, her repetitive themes are tedious, but she excels in creating a building adventure with an unknown goal.... sort of a mystery in time.I give this short story 5 st...