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Connie Willis, właśc. Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis – amerykańska pisarka science-fiction.

Debiutowała opowiadaniem The Secret of Santa Titicaca w magazynie Worlds of Fantasy na przełomie 1970 i 1971 roku. Jej pierwsza powieść Water Witch ukazała się w 1982 roku. Napisała ją wspólnie z Cynthią Felice.

W swoim dorobku ma 11 nagród Hugo oraz 6 nagród Nebula .

W 1967 wyszła za mąż za fizyka Courtneya Willisa. Mieszkają razem w Greeley w Kolorado. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Grudzień 1945  •  Natępne imiona کانی ویلیس, 康妮·威利斯
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“It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.”

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Connie Willis książka Doomsday Book

Źródło: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 506)

“That makes no sense,” I said.
“This is the Victorian era,” she said. “Women didn’t have to make sense.”

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Connie Willis książka To Say Nothing of the Dog

Źródło: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 17 (p. 297)

“It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick’s Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.”

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Connie Willis książka To Say Nothing of the Dog

Źródło: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 18 (p. 318)

“Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Źródło: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 117)

“If they were part of the self-correction (i. e., of the space-time continuum) what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?”

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Connie Willis książka To Say Nothing of the Dog

Źródło: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 28 (p. 479)

“Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.”

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Connie Willis książka Doomsday Book

Źródło: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 35 (p. 563)

“They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?”

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Connie Willis książka Doomsday Book

Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
Źródło: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)

“One of the greatest difficulties I encounter in my research is that people want to believe that their dreams mean something, but all the research I’m doing seems to indicate just the opposite.”

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Connie Willis książka Lincoln's Dreams

Źródło: Lincoln's Dreams (1987), Chapter 4 (pp. 57-58)

“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”

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Connie Willis

Źródło: Short fiction, Fire Watch (1985), The Sidon in the Mirror (p. 161)

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