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I still haven't made it to her earlier works like To Say Nothing of the Dog or The Doomsday Book - both books that others say are her best work. anyone who enjoys Christmas stories with some meaning. But what sets the collection apart from being just a collection of sci-fi stories with a Christmas theme is that Willis offers stories that must take place at Christmas. I still haven't made it to her earlier works like To Say Nothing of the Dog or The Doomsday Book - both books that others say are her best work. Dire straits abound in these riveting recs from the Crosstalk author. Removing this book will also remove your associated ratings, reviews, and reading sessions. The final story "Epiphany" was also somewhat long and felt a bit forced to me. These stories walk a thin line for me between amusing and annoying, since lack of communication is one of my habitual pet peeves in fiction. My favorite is "Newsletter.". Some of them were really fantastic, and it's great to read humorous award-winning science fiction, because it's so rare! The absolute funniest story, in my opinion, is the fantastically titled "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective". I also think this is a rare Willis story that doesn't rely so much on communication problems to develop plot tension, so the change is very pleasant. I enjoyed it the first time I read it last year, and even more so this time, knowing full well from the beginning about Mencken. A Christmas favorite, I have just begun my annual re-read. My yearly tradition is to start around Thanksgiving with the introduction - just as wonderful as the stories - and work my way through slowly. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s. Connie Willis, an sf Grand Master, has received (I believe) seven Nebulas and eleven Hugos for her fiction. Three Short Novels by Connie Willis Jo Walton. It’s not a secret that I’m a fan of Connie Willis’s writing. If I don't love it like Bellwether or become emotionally compromised like Doomsday Book, I'm disappointed. I "honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year," but this book, and each story, are nuggets of purest Christmas, buoying my spirit and filling my heart, again and again. (These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only! Connie Willis is an American author of science fiction stories and novels. Mind you, I’m not the only one. I "honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year," but this book, and each story, are. Willis hasn't made many accurate predictions about future technology, especially about future communications technology! Start by marking “Miracle and Other Christmas Stories” as Want to Read: Error rating book. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers story was a very close second. Or perhaps I did, and I just don't want to accept how bleak it felt. I had a moment of pure happiness when I realized that it was the holiday season, and that meant I got to read this book again. Dire straits abound in these riveting recs from the Crosstalk author. Connie Willis is the only author whose short stories I like as much as her longer works. Students may jest about the benefits of learning by osmosis, but the side effects are painful to say the least. There is a holiday themed mystery, an examination of the original Christmas story and even a story that sets out to prove why Willis thinks "Miracle on 34th Street" is a superior holiday film to "It's A Wonderful Life." This collection was fine, but not overly exciting - there was one story I really enjoyed (Newsletter) but the others did not make me overly invested in them, so three stars it is. My first Christmas read of the season wasn't a success, but this one really hit the spot. I often have a tough time with short stories (because they need to be really good for me to enjoy a collection). please sign up An eclectic mix of short stories revolving around the theme of Christmas with the title story being the best of the lot. The Connie Willis short story "Winter's Tale," which combines factual information about Anne Hathaway with a fictitious Shakespeare identity theory, also characterises the nature of the relationship as loving and the bequeath of the second-best bed as romantically significant. Connie Willis' short-story ``Schwarzschild Radius'' is based on events in the life of Karl Schwarzschild, who gave the first exact solutions to the equations of general relativity. In longer novel form, I think this is a good thing; I enjoyed Blackout/All Clear quite a bit. Her internal mechanisms work really well—sometimes too well, bluntly, with the jokes too clearly telegraphed, and the plot getting. Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book, on LibraryThing. Mm, hard to tell. Not many people are keen on the idea of a book automatically grafting itself to their consciousness. A couple of the stories, the ominous story and the preacher road trip, ultimately fell flat for me, but for different reasons. However, I think this story particularly hinges on the reader's emotional attachment to dogs as pets, in order to invoke similar feelings about other issues. History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. Yep. I do reread it every year but mostly out of reading habits at Christmas. She began publishing sf with "Santa Titicaca" for Worlds of Fantasy (Winter 1970/1971 #3), but appeared only intermittently in the field until the early 1980s, when she became a full-time author, winning several awards almost immediately. Miracle and Other Christmas Stories is a collection of eight short science fiction and fantasies by Connie Willis, plus an introduction and an afterword. I like them all but it is not a book that I would say that I love. -- Sir Walter Raleigh. The first novel of this series is titled as ‘Doomsday Book’. (Such irony!) This is the one Christmas book I read every year, unfailingly. "The Last of the Winnebagos" hasn't aged well since it imagines a pretty crazy future of highways and travel limitations. Time is the Fire is a collection of 10 Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories by Willis, ranging from short stories to novellas. October 31st 2000 Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Ahh, I know this happens in science fiction! Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Technology and science are background elements. I liked all the stories, but didn't really love them. But also, I … I'm a fan of her long, elaborate novels, but I enjoyed the short stories very much. Sometimes that popularity gets judged by book sales; sometimes—as in the case of many short story writers—the popularity gets judged by awards and award nominations. Buy The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories by Willis, Connie from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories (1998) – sound recording of five stories read by Connie Willis including "Even the Queen", "Death on the Nile", and "At the Rialto" Willis, Connie (1999). I'm so glad I decided to buy this collection for kindle this year as I've been wanting to read it for some time. Students may jest about the ben. I just finished my annual reread of Connie Willis' Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. by Connie Willis. Both the introduction and the speeches are as entertaining as the stories. Yes, it's got some stories that deal with themes common to science-fiction and have sci-fi elements, but it's more than that. It's been seventeen years since I last read this story collection (the year it came out, actually), and this time, I figured out why I've never come back to it: despite my enjoyment of most of the stories, there were enough of them I didn't love that it left me feeling rather meh about the whole thing. Great short stories by one of my favorite authors. It contains 10 of Willis' short stories, most of which have been previously-printed in numerous venues. I admit that I found this book in the sci-fi section, but I honestly think it transcends that. An eclectic mix of short stories revolving around the theme of Christmas with the title story being the best of the lot. Do not miss this collection. So, I finished this a couple of days ago. Bantam Spectra. Winner of 7 Nebulas (and nominated for 8 more). by Bantam. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. This book has a lot of magical realism/speculative fiction in it which I enjoy. Of the eight Christmas stories in this collection, I enjoyed "Inn" the most, a reworking of the nativity where a choral singer helps a homeless couple expecting a baby who have lost their way. I usually dislike short story collections because they seem to be all depressing and incomplete. There's this magnificent shift in the story, in which you realize you've gotten the setting completely wrong, because you assume at the beginning... and it's written cleverly enough that nothing contradicts your assumption, but when you go back and reread the opening paragraphs, you see exactly what you missed the first time. I've criticized the last two Oxford time travel books (Blackout/All Clear) for their excessive bloat and repetitiveness, and it was nice to revisit this original story in that world which nails the length. Connie Willis is a writer of ideas. Possibly it's that the religious beliefs of the ma. ", my heart just doesn't know how to justify giving 4-stars to something related to the most sentimental and, dare I say it, twee holidays of the year. First, she is no professional narrator. I didn't understand the message of "The Winds of Marble Arch". ‘The Best Of Connie Willis’ is a collection of award-winning short stories by Connie Willis. A Guide for Connie’s Holiday Stories Hi, everybody! Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. It's a total hilarious parody of excessively detailed, over-analyzed, and misinterpretive academic essays on really flawed esoteric opinions. I also enjoyed "In Coppelius Toyshop" which turned into a horror story where a self-centred man gets lost forever in a toyshop. Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Check. Her books are complex using science fiction time travel to fact check she takes us back to times we could only imagine and then see firsthand through the eyes of the time traveler how difficult it can be to only observe never change the outcome. Instead, she takes the convential stories and gives them her own unique twist making them entertaining and magical at the same time. She writes the Oxford Time Travel series. Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She is not what you would call a speedy author. Willis is the reverse of a lot of the other writers I’ve been reading lately, who tend to rely on esoteric prose to paper over narrative holes. The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium (2007) I am obliged to admit at this point that short stories are not my favorite literary form. Overall, Time is the Fire was a grab-bag of great and average stories. September 20 - Of course the first thing I looked for was the fire watch stone. [Connie Willis] -- A fan's collectible anthology by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee contains each of the author's ten Nebula Award- and Hugo Award-winning tales. Mostly, it's because while the writing was good, and the some of the stories were excellent, it was still a book about Christmas. It also imagines a zombie Emily Dickinson fighting an alien invasion!! Thanks to the MacHalo Buddy Read for forcing me to read this! Refresh and try again. Christmas is bearing down on us, and because you all have so much time to read during the holidays, Lee thought you might like a list of my Christmas short stories. Published on October 10, 2017, A Lot Like Christmas is an "Expanded, Updated Edition of Connie Willis' Beloved Miracle and Other Christmas Stories" For more details and a table of contents, visit this entry on the conniewillis.net blog. Mencken! Published July 9th 2013 by Del Rey (first published 1993. These are really nice stories, full of the spirit of this time of the year, whether they involve an unsolved mystery or possible alien invasion. Everyone would have a good time, [at least enough to figure out what the ending would have been, It's been seventeen years since I last read this story collection (the year it came out, actually), and this time, I figured out why I've never come back to it: despite my enjoyment of most of the stories, there were enough of them I didn't love that it left me feeling rather meh about the whole thing. In this book of short stories, Connie Willis does what she does so well and takes a well known story and reinvents it in her own style. Time is the Fire is a collection of 10 Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories by Willis, ranging from short stories to novellas. Reputed for her prose style and characters, Connie has produced several works during her writing career – be it novels, short stories or others. Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)-Wikipedia This was a fun book filled with truly unique Christmas stories - which as the author pointed out - is very hard to do! When this collection of stories was listed in NetGalley, I jumped at the chance, to try to get to know this Grand Master a little better. Some disappointments: "The Winds of Marble Arch" and "The Last of the Winnebagos" did not live up to my expectations at all. Unsolicited space travel? "Inside Job" is about a man and his assistant who debunk mediums in Hollywood - and then they encounter a new medium in town who may be truly channeling the spirit of H.L. What it says on the tin, plus a couple of rather good award acceptance speeches. She has a few other works that I really like. You know, those things academics write that are total made-up BS and clearly a desperate attempt to publish something (anything!). If you haven’t seen the collection or read that particular story, it’s certainly worth looking into. After discovering Connie Willis when her book Blackout came out I eagerly searched for her other books in vain. As she states in her introduction, it's hard to re-invent the wheel when it comes to holiday stories and she doesn't attempt to do so. Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book, on LibraryThing. Her internal mechanisms work really well—sometimes too well, bluntly, with the jokes too clearly telegraphed, and the plot getting wrapped up too neatly. Time is the Fire is a collection of 10 Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories by Willis, ranging from short stories to novellas. Willis is well-known for her humor and "comedy of manners" plots, which usually involve characters runni. Her books are complex using science fiction time travel to fact check she takes us back to times we could only imag. I have to admit to a bit of trepidation, but this was actually a pretty good collection. It doesn't help that "Epiphany," my least favorite, is the last one in the collection and therefore the one that made the final impression on me. So overall a bit of a mixed bag but worth reading for the good bits. The ominous story felt unfleshed out, as if Ms Willis had an idea but was uncertain what to do with it and the preacher road trip had me until the last paragraph when the story just ended, no conclusion, no payoff, it just stopped. This is the kind of book that is very hard to rate, for a few reasons. Get this from a library! And technology is the only weakness in many of these stories. And just for the record, my absolute favorite story in that collection is Even the Queen. 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