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2	Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American ScienceFiction writer, best known for her stories of time-traveling academic researchers. She has a record-breaking eleven MediaNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s, and is the only author to date to have won both the Hugo Award and the MediaNotes/NebulaAward in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story). She was named a [[MediaNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2012.
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4	!!! Works by Connie Willis with pages on this wiki:
5	[[index]]
6	* ''Literature/{{Blackout}}'' / ''All Clear'' (really, one book, but so big it was divided into two)
7	* ''Literature/DoomsdayBook''
8	* ''Literature/LincolnsDreams''
9	* ''Literature/{{Passage}}''
10	* ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog''
11	[[/index]]
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13	!!! Other works by Connie Willis include:
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15	Novels
16	* ''Water Witch'' (with Cynthia Felice)
17	* ''Light Raid'' (with Cynthia Felice)
18	* ''Remake''
19	* ''Uncharted Territory''
20	* ''Bellwether''
21	* ''Promised Land'' (with Cynthia Felice)
22	* ''Inside Job''
23	* ''D.A.''
24	* ''All Seated on the Ground''
25	* ''Crosstalk''
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27	Short story collections
28	* ''Fire Watch''
29	* ''Impossible Things''
30	* ''Futures Imperfect''
31	* ''Miracle and Other Christmas Stories''
32	* ''Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories''
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34	!!Tropes featured in her work:
35	* {{Comedy}} and {{Tragedy}}: Most of Willis's novels fall strongly into one or the other of these two classical genres. ''Literature/DoomsdayBook'', ''Literature/LincolnsDreams'' and ''Literature/{{Passage}}'' are tragedies; ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', ''Remake'', ''Bellwether'' and ''Inside Job'' are comedies.
36	%%* DividedWeFall
37	* FixFic: In ''Remake'', one of the characters works in a place called "Happy Endings" which can "re-do" the endings to sad movies and make them happy.
38	* MundaneHorror: ''A Letter from Clearys'' follows a seemingly ordinary American family who are living in a small house in the mountains, while building a greenhouse there and waiting for a letter from their friends... However, for some reason, there is snow in the middle of June, and the main character has strange burns on her hands that are not going away no matter what. Eventually it's revealed that they inhabit a post-apocalyptic world, the family friends died in the nuclear explosion, and the protagonist likely exhibits the first signs of radiation poisoning.
39	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played with in the Hugo-winning short story "Even the Queen", in which a technology has been invented that allows women to avoid them entirely.
40	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Adaptation" opens with a massive lampshade, with the protagonist going on at length about how many adaptations exist of ''A Christmas Carol''. When he encounters the three Christmas Ghosts, he thinks he knows what's going on, but it turns out they have a different mission this time.

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