[Fedora]

Does that help?

Yes; thanks. I hereby award you your Ph.D. in Connie Willis studies :) Passage and Miracle sound most interesting to me. I was considering reading Lincoln's Dreams next but I think I'll try those first after reading your review.

[JenB]

Hehe - you know, if I move out to Colorado, I may become a Connie Willis stalker...

Seriesly, she and Heinlein are my chief writing role models - I love their styles and the way their novels work. So I've spent a lot of time thinking about her books. I could write a similar essay on the Heinlein novels I've read (which is everything he wrote before "Stranger in a Strange Land", btw).