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Connie Willis
Contents (71)
  1. Contents
  2. London—26 October 1940
  3. London—7 May 1945
  4. London—26 October 1940
  5. Bethnal Green—June 1944
  6. London—26 October 1940
  7. Kent—April 1944
  8. London—27 October 1940
  9. London—November 1940
  10. Kent—April 1944
  11. Golders Green—July 1944
  12. London—November 1940
  13. Kent—April 1944
  14. London—November 1940
  15. London—November 1940
  16. Oxford—April 2060
  17. Bletchley—November 1940
  18. Dulwich—Summer 1944
  19. London—November 1940
  20. Bletchley—December 1940
  21. Dulwich—Summer 1944
  22. London—December 1940
  23. Oxford—April 2060
  24. London—December 1940
  25. Saltram-on-Sea—December 1940
  26. London—December 1940
  27. London—December 1940
  28. London—29 December 1940
  29. St. Paul’s Cathedral—29 December 1940
  30. St. Paul’s Cathedral—29 December 1940
  31. Ludgate Hill—29 December 1940
  32. Blackfriars Tube Station—29 December 1940
  33. St. Paul’s Cathedral—29 December 1940
  34. The City—29 December 1940
  35. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital—30 December 1940
  36. St. Paul’s Cathedral—30 December 1940
  37. Croydon—October 1944
  38. London—Winter 1941
  39. London—Winter 1941
  40. Croydon—October 1944
  41. London—Winter 1941
  42. London—7 May 1945
  43. London—Winter 1941
  44. London—Winter 1941
  45. London—Winter 1941
  46. London—Winter 1941
  47. Kent—April 1944
  48. Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995
  49. Dover—April 1944
  50. Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995
  51. Wales—May 1944
  52. London—Spring 1941
  53. London—May 1944
  54. London—Spring 1941
  55. Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995
  56. Kent—June 1944
  57. Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995
  58. Kent—October 1944
  59. London—Spring 1941
  60. Croydon—October 1944
  61. London—Spring 1941
  62. London—Spring 1941
  63. London—Spring 1941
  64. Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995
  65. London—19 April 1941
  66. London—19 April 1941
  67. Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995
  68. London—7 May 1945
  69. London—19 April 1941
  70. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  71. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAVISH PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS OF
CONNIE WILLIS

2010 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award Nominee for Career Achievement in Sci Fi/Fantasy

ALL CLEAR
Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List for Best Science Fiction Novel

“The delights of Blackout and All Clear—which are, despite appearances, one novel—are hard to describe in a small space. The revivified history is beautiful. Connie Willis has always loved England and especially London during the Blitz, and she delivers here as rich and wide a picture of the time as anything I’ve ever read. She doesn’t merely do research, she inhabits it.… Beyond that, Willis’s trademark approach, time travel, lets her stack all this together with a minimum of fill that conveys the emotional density of the event. Also, it allows her to pursue dazzling games with time. People die before they’re born, remember events before they happen; there’s an astonishing temporal knot at the end that resolves the story that only Willis could bring off.… Blackout/All Clear is as big a book as there’s been all year, encompassing one of the greatest events in history, paying homage to the human spirit, and demonstrating Connie Willis’s mastery in a fabulous read.”

—The Historical Novels Review

“Willis can tell a story so packed with thrills, comedy, drama and a bit of red herring that the result is apt to satisfy the most discriminating, and hungry, reader.… Too much Connie Willis is like too much chocolate: Ain’t no such thing!”

—The Denver Post

“This is Connie Willis’s masterpiece. A heart-wrenching, uplifting, amazing work of historical fiction as well as a heart-wrenching, uplifting, amazing work of science fiction … This is astonishing work. Read it now.”

—KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

BLACKOUT
2010 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel
2010 Locus Recommended Reading List for Best Science Fiction Novel

“With her trademark understated, eloquent style, Willis expands the conceit of her Hugo and Nebula winning 1982 story ‘Fire Watch’ into a page-turning thriller, her first novel since 2001’s Passage.… Willis uses detail and period language exquisitely well, creating an engaging, exciting tale.”

—Publishers Weekly

“On par with Doomsday Book, Blackout depicts the times and the spirit of the British people remarkably vividly, and bits of comic relief leaven any somberness. Characterizations of the historians and the Brits they become close to are multifaceted and believable, and the ending leaves us keenly primed for the sequel.”

—Booklist (starred review)

“Blackout is big, muscular, thoughtful and altogether terrific: a novel quite worthy of the eight-year wait for the latest words from the six-time Nebula and ten-time Hugo Award–winning author. [A] book with something for everyone that ends up working on every level. It is adventure. It is history. It is science. It is, indeed, thrilling. And it is unforgettable.”

—January Magazine

“Willis’ sense of the absurd builds on life’s uncertainties. It’s a mad world, with wit our sole defense against destiny’s outrageous bombs and rockets. [Willis has] researched Blackout so thoroughly, her readers may imagine she had access to the time machine her characters use.”