Time Travel, Hula Hoops, and Chaos:The Life of A Science Fiction Writer featuring Connie Willis
Friday November 10, 2006
Presented by Friends of the Colorado State University Libraries
5:30 p.m.
The evening will begin with a special dinner with Connie & Members of Friends of Colorado State University Libraries in the Longs Peak Room, Lory Student Center.
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7:30 p.m.
Connie will give a reading of her work and sign books for audience members in the West Rotunda of Morgan Library. The reading is free and open to the public with refreshments to follow.
Connie Willis is an internationally-known award-winning science fiction author and the winner of an unprecedented total of six Nebula Awards (given by the Science Fiction Writers of America) and nine Hugo Awards (given by the World Science Fiction Convention). She is the first author to have ever won both awards in all four fiction categories. She has also won numerous Locus Awards (given by Locus Magazine), and was named by them Best Science Fiction Author of the Nineties. Last month she was awarded the Hugo Award for her novella, "Inside Job."
Willis is the author of Doomsday Book, winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel; Lincoln's Dreams, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel; Remake; Uncharted Territory; Bellwether; To Say Nothing of the Dog, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel; and the short story collections Fire Watch and Impossible Things. Her most recent novel is Passage, a novel about near-death experiences.
Ms. Willis lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney, who is a physics professor, and a bulldog and cat, who are not.She is currently working on a time-travel novel set in the London Blitz called All Clear and a UFO novel set in Roswell.
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