“Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis , commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than any other writer—most recently the "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear . She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011.Several of her works feature time travel by history students at a faculty of the future University of Oxford—sometimes called the Time Travel series. They are the short story "Fire Watch" , the novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog , as well as the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear . All four won the annual Hugo Award but Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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“Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 119)
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 326)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 2 “Bubblings”, Section 3 (p. 63)
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 18 (p. 318)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 4 (p. 127)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 4 “Rapids”, Section 1 (p. 140)
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 26 (p. 436)
Source: Fire Watch (1982), pp. 129-130 in The Nebula Awards 18 edited by Robert Silverberg
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 28 (p. 479)
“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Source: Even the Queen: & Other Short Stories
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 496)
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 22 (p. 374)
He bowed slightly. “As you wish, miss.” He looked at it, his face impassive. “It is very beautiful.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 19 (p. 333; the ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 498)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 4 “Rapids”, Section 2 (p. 151)
“Servants don’t travel with their employers.”
“How do they do without them?”
”They don’t.”
Chapter 18 (pp. 317-318)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 1 “Beginning”, Section 4 (p. 33)
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 2 “Bubblings”, Section 5 (p. 75)
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 320)
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 5 “Main Channel”, Section 2 (p. 226)
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 506)
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 17 (p. 297)
“Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 117)
“Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.”
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 35 (p. 563)
“They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?”
Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)
Source: Lincoln's Dreams (1987), Chapter 4 (pp. 57-58)
“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”
Source: Short fiction, Fire Watch (1985), The Sidon in the Mirror (p. 161)