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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the Hugo Award and the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.

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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven UsefulNotes/{{Hugo MediaNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the Hugo Award and the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward MediaNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward [[MediaNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.
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* MundaneHorror: ''A Letter from Clearys'' follows a seemingly ordinary American family who are living in a small house in the mountains, while building a greenhouse there and waiting for a letter from their friends... However, for some reason, there is snow in the middle of June, and the main character has strange burns on her hands that are not going away no matter what. Eventually it's revealed that they inhabit a post-apocalyptic world, the family friends died in the nuclear explosion, and the protagonist likely exhibits the first signs of radiation poisoning.
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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the Hugo Award and the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.

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Connie Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the Hugo Award and the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.
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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.

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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward Hugo Award and the UsefulNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.
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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.

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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward UsefulNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.
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* {{Comedy}} and {{Tragedy}}: Most of Willis's novels fall strongly into one or the other of these two classical genres. DoomsdayBook, LincolnsDreams and {{Passage}} are tragedies, ToSayNothingOfTheDog, Remake, Bellwether and Inside Job are comedies.
* DividedWeFall
* FixFic
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Hilariously zigzagged in the Hugo-winning short story EvenTheQueen.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Adaptation" is a rather less formulaic take on the standard Christmas visitation formula

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* {{Comedy}} and {{Tragedy}}: Most of Willis's novels fall strongly into one or the other of these two classical genres. DoomsdayBook, LincolnsDreams ''Literature/DoomsdayBook'', ''Literature/LincolnsDreams'' and {{Passage}} ''Literature/{{Passage}}'' are tragedies, ToSayNothingOfTheDog, Remake, Bellwether tragedies; ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', ''Remake'', ''Bellwether'' and Inside Job ''Inside Job'' are comedies.
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FixFic: In ''Remake'', one of the characters works in a place called "Happy Endings" which can "re-do" the endings to sad movies and make them happy.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Hilariously zigzagged Played with in the Hugo-winning short story EvenTheQueen.
"Even the Queen", in which a technology has been invented that allows women to avoid them entirely.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Adaptation" is opens with a rather less formulaic take on massive lampshade, with the standard protagonist going on at length about how many adaptations exist of ''A Christmas visitation formulaCarol''. When he encounters the three Christmas Ghosts, he thinks he knows what's going on, but it turns out they have a different mission this time.
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* CantTakeAnythingWithYou



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* FlatlinePlotline
* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel
* GoodShepherd
* InMysteriousWays
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed
* LittlestCancerPatient
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet



* {{Squick}}: The short story ''All My Darling Daughters''.
* TemporalSickness
* WhatYearIsThis



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* HistoryMarchesOn: The long timespan over which the Oxford Time Travellers series has been published (30 years and counting) leads to weird things like SeptemberEleventh popping up in the backstory in the last book and all the cats going extinct in 2004. It probably would have been easier just to make it an AlternateHistory where the Communists with the pinpoint ''replaced'' Al Qaeda, but apparently not.
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*{{Squick}}: The short story ''All My Darling Daughters''.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Hilariously zigzagged in the Hugo-winning short story EvenTheQueen.
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* {{Comedy}} and {{Tragedy}}: Most of Willis's novels fall strongly into one or the other of these two classical genres. DoomsdayBook, LincolnsDreams and {{Passage}} are tragedies, ToSayNothingOfTheDog, Remake, Bellwether and Inside Job are comedies.
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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).

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Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).
story). She was named a [[DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.
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Creator/ConnieWillis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).

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Creator/ConnieWillis Connie Willis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).
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ConnieWillis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).

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ConnieWillis Creator/ConnieWillis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).



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ConnieWillis is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven {{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the HugoAward and the NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).

!! Works by Connie Willis with pages on this wiki:
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* ''Literature/{{Blackout}}'' / ''All Clear'' (really, one book, but so big it was divided into two)
* ''Literature/DoomsdayBook''
* ''LincolnsDreams''
* ''{{Passage}}''
* ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog''
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!! Other works by Connie Willis include:

Novels
* ''Water Witch'' (with Cynthia Felice)
* ''Light Raid'' (with Cynthia Felice)
* ''Remake''
* ''Uncharted Territory''
* ''Bellwether''
* ''Promised Land'' (with Cynthia Felice)
* ''Inside Job''
* ''D.A.''
* ''All Seated on the Ground''

Short story collections
* ''Fire Watch''
* ''Impossible Things''
* ''Futures Imperfect''
* ''Miracle and Other Christmas Stories''
* ''Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories''

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!!Tropes featured in her work
* CantTakeAnythingWithYou
* DividedWeFall
* ExactEavesdropping
* FixFic
* FlatlinePlotline
* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel
* GoodShepherd
* HistoryMarchesOn: The long timespan over which the Oxford Time Travellers series has been published (30 years and counting) leads to weird things like SeptemberEleventh popping up in the backstory in the last book and all the cats going extinct in 2004. It probably would have been easier just to make it an AlternateHistory where the Communists with the pinpoint ''replaced'' Al Qaeda, but apparently not.
* InMysteriousWays
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed
* LittlestCancerPatient
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet
* TemporalSickness
* WhatYearIsThis
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Adaptation" is a rather less formulaic take on the standard Christmas visitation formula
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