We got assignments to go back and observe points in history by going undercover to live and work during these times,” Eileen said. You guys are from 2060? That’s incredible, what’s it like?” I asked. “So you’re not a historian from 2060 like us?” Mike demanded.

They saw me with the time-mower and figured out I was from the future.

I was getting ready to return to 2010, and started firing up the time-mower when suddenly three people, two women and a man, ran up excitedly and started wildly shouting questions at me.Īfter a few minutes they finally calmed down enough to introduce themselves. It’s a fascinating time with England hanging on by its fingernails during nightly bombings and waiting for a German invasion that seemed certain. Recently, I popped into London in 1940 during the Blitz to take a look around. Anyhow, when I have a chance, I take the occasional trip through history. Warning: This review will be lengthy due to pure hatred.ĭid I ever tell you that I’ve got a time machine? There was a freak accident where my laptop and my lawn mower got fused together following a lightning strike, and now I can use it to travel in time. Her protagonists are typically beset by single-minded people pursuing illogical agendas, such as attempting to organize a bell-ringing session in the middle of a deadly epidemic ( Doomsday Book), or frustrating efforts to analyze near-death experiences by putting words in the mouths of interviewees ( Passage). Willis tends to the comedy of manners style of writing. These pieces include her Hugo Award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog and the short story 'Fire Watch,' found in the short story collection of the same name.

She has written several pieces involving time travel by history students and faculty of the future University of Oxford. Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s. Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer.

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