Connie Willis

Connie Willis ranks among the most decorated authors in speculative fiction, having garnered Hugo and Nebula Awards across all fiction categories, establishing her as a preeminent figure in the genre.

Willis' writing often resides in areas of soft science fiction, but she also explores hard science fiction settings such as interstellar travel. Willis’ first solo novel, Lincoln’s Dreams (1987), won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

Her second novel, Doomsday Book (1992), brought her even more attention, winning both a Hugo and Nebula Award. 1998’s To Say Nothing of the Dog, another Hugo winner, blends science fiction with comedy of manners as a historian from the future bounces between the Victorian era and the Blitz.

Time travel is a favorite Willis theme, also Christmas tales, and the intersections of film and reality. CBS adapted Willis’ novella Just Like the Ones We Used to Know into the movie Snow Wonder in 2005.