Her protagonists are typically beset by single-minded people pursuing illogical agendas, such as attempting to organize a bell-ringing session in the middle of a deadly epidemic ( Doomsday Book), or frustrating efforts to analyze near-death experiences by putting words in the mouths of interviewees ( Passage). Unlimited listening to the Plus Catalogue - thousands of select Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks. Willis tends to the comedy of manners style of writing. Blackout By: Connie Willis Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren, Connie Willis Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins 3.7 (155 ratings) Try for £0.00 One credit a month, good for any title to download and keep. 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. She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the future University of Oxford. Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008).

She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Like her multi-award winning THE DOOMSDAY BOOK, this stunning new work marries the intricate mechanics of time travel to the gritty - and dangerous - realities of human history.

She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s. BLACKOUT is the opening movement of a vast, absorbing two-volume novel that may well prove to be Connie Willis masterpiece. Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer.

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