Connie Willis: Fire Watch

Fire Watch by Connie Willis (sci-fi short stories) As always with a short story compilation, there is variety among the stories and there's no promise that liking the author will mean you like all the short stories. (It's interesting, short stories have more variety in that respect than novels do. I suspect it's because it's...

Connie Willis: Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel #1) by Connie Willis (science fiction, time-travel) This is the first book in the series, but I read it second. (I read book 2, To Say Nothing of the Dog, first.) I really enjoyed this book. One thing I've noticed about Willis' writing style, though, is that it's very deliberate. Don't...

Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog

To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel #2) by Connie Willis (science-fiction) This is a highly amusing book! The beginning of it was every bit as confusing as I had been warned (I bumped it to a 4.5 star rating due to this*) but the rest of the book was a fun romp...