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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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✵ 31. prosinec 1945   •   Další jména 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 kniha Doomsday Book

Zdroj: 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 kniha To Say Nothing of the Dog

Zdroj: 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 kniha To Say Nothing of the Dog

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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 kniha To Say Nothing of the Dog

Zdroj: 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 kniha Doomsday Book

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

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

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Connie Willis kniha Doomsday Book

Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
Zdroj: 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 kniha Lincoln's Dreams

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

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