Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s.
She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).
She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia.
Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the future University of Oxford. These pieces include her Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog and the short story “Fire Watch,” found in the short story collection of the same name.
Books in order of publication:
Novels:
Water Witch (1982) (with Cynthia Felice)
Lincoln’s Dreams (1987) – John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1988
Light Raid (1989) (with Cynthia Felice)
Promised Land (1997) (with Cynthia Felice)
Uncharted Territory (1994)
Remake (1995) – Hugo Award nominee, 1996
Bellwether (1996) – Nebula Award nominee, 1997
Passage (2001) – Locus SF Award winner, Hugo and Clarke Awards nominee, 2002; Nebula Award nominee, 2001
Inside Job (2005)
D.A. (2007)
All Seated on the Ground (2007)
All About Emily (2011)
Crosstalk (2016)
I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land (2018)
Jack (2020 as book, first published 1991)
Take a Look at the Five and Ten (2020)
The Road to Roswell (2023)
Oxford time travel
Doomsday Book (1992) – Nebula Award winner, BSFA Award nominee, 1992;Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, Clarke Award nominee, 1993
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998) – Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1999Nebula Award nominee, 1998
Blackout (2010) – Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards, 2011 winner
All Clear (2010) – Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards, 2011 winner
Short fiction collections
Fire Watch (Oxford time travel series, 1984), whose title story won the 1982 Hugo and Nebula Awards
Impossible Things (1993) – contains three Nebula Award winners, two of which also won Hugo Awards
Futures Imperfect (1996) – omnibus edition of Uncharted Territory, Remake and Bellwether.
Even the Queen and Other Short Stories (1998) – sound recording of five stories read by Connie Willis including “Even the Queen”, “Death on the Nile”, and “At the Rialto”
Willis, Connie (1999). Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Bantam Spectra.
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium (2007)
Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis (2013), Hugo and Nebula award-winning short fiction
A Lot Like Christmas: Stories (2017) – Omnibus edition combining Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, several additional short stories, and the novellas All About Emily and All Seated On The Ground.
Terra Incognita (2018) – Collected edition of Uncharted Territory, Remake, and D.A..
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