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To: EveningStar

The only one on that list I’ve read was Connie Willis’s (brilliant) novella. I see they’re continuing to see how many awards they can give that woman before she actually has any, you know, name recognition. (She must have a dozen by now, counting the Nebulas too)

Unfortunately she is a slow writer and it’s been 8 years since her last full-length novel. However she is hands down the best science fiction writer alive today.


8 posted on 08/11/2008 6:12:31 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB

Haven’t read any of ‘em . Can’t conceive of WANTING to read any of them. Pretty sad if you ask me.

I did see Gaiman’s Stardust and liked it.


9 posted on 08/11/2008 6:20:44 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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To: JenB

Connie Willis has won ten Hugos and six Nebulas, plus the odd World Fantasy Award here and there. Her “Doomsday Book” was the very first novel I ever got from the Science Fiction Book Club when I was a kid, and I remember it very fondly. “To Say Nothing of the Dog” was fantastic.


13 posted on 08/11/2008 6:32:05 AM PDT by Eepsy (12-30-2008 +1)
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Wilis is good but so is Mike Resnick.

Resnick has been nominated for 31 Hugo Awards, and won five times. Aside from 1999 and 2003, he has received at least one nomination every year to date since 1989. - Wikipedia

14 posted on 08/11/2008 6:39:41 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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