Rogues

Connie Willis

Connie Willis lives with her husband in Greeley, Colorado. She first attracted attention as a writer in the late seventies with a number of stories for the now-defunct magazine Galileo, and went on to establish herself as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of the 1980s. In 1983, she won two Nebula Awards, one for her novelette “Fire Watch,” and one for her short story “A Letter from the Clearys”; a few months later, “Fire Watch” went on to win her a Hugo Award as well. In 1989, her novella The Last of the Winnebagos won both the Nebula and the Hugo, and she won another Nebula in 1990 for her novelette “At the Rialto.” In 1993, her landmark novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, as did her short story “Even the Queen.” She won another Hugo in 1994 for her story “Death on the Nile,” another in 1997 for her story “The Soul Selects Her Own Society,” another in 1999 for her novel To Say Nothing of the Dog, another for her novella The Winds of Marble Arch in 2000, another in 2006 for her novella Inside Job, and yet another in 2008 for her novella All Seated on the Ground—capped off in 2011 by her most recent book, the massive two-volume novel Blackout/All Clear, winning both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards. In 2009 she was voted into The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and in 2011, she received the SFWA Grand Master Award. All of which makes her the most honored writer in the history of science fiction, and the only person ever to win two Nebulas and two Hugos in the same year. Her other books include the novels Water Witch, Light Raid, and Promised Land, all written in collaboration with Cynthia Felice, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, Uncharted Territory, Remake, and Passage, and, as editor, the anthologies The New Hugo Winners, Volume III, Nebula Awards 33, and (with Sheila Williams), A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women. Her short fiction has been gathered in the collections Fire Watch, Impossible Things, and Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Coming up is a huge retrospective collection, The Best of Connie Willis.

In the fast, funny, and furious story that follows, she takes us out for a night at the movies that turns out to be a lot trickier and more complicated than just buying a ticket.