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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis, más conocida como Connie Willis , es una escritora estadounidense de ciencia ficción.

Se inició profesionalmente como profesora de enseñanza media antes de dedicarse a la literatura, en la que comenzó publicando relatos en antologías durante de la década de 1970. Posteriormente adquirió fama como novelista en 1987 con Los sueños de Lincoln, ganadora del John W. Campbell Memorial de 1988. En esta novela la protagonista experimenta un enlace mental a través de dos siglos con el general Lee y comparte sus ansiedades respecto al final de la guerra de Secesión.

En 1992 publica su obra más conocida, El libro del día del Juicio Final, con la que ganó los tres premios más importantes del género: el Hugo , premio de los lectores, el Nébula , premio de los escritores del género, y el Locus , premio de una importante revista de ciencia ficción y fantasía. Al igual que la anterior, esta historia utiliza el viaje en el tiempo, esta vez físico, y nos retrata unos días del siglo de la Peste Negra a través de una historiadora "de campo" de la universidad de Oxford. Paralelamente, la narración sigue los acontecimientos que su mentor y los demás habitantes de Oxford padecen mientras ella está en el pasado.

Su carrera ha continuado con éxito, como ejemplifican sus otros dos premios Locus, concedidos por sus novelas Tránsito y Por no mencionar al perro. Esta última le valió también otro Hugo en la categoría de novela. En categorías de narraciones más breves ha recibido también 8 Hugos y 5 Nébulas a lo largo de su carrera, lo que la sitúa entre las mejores cultivadoras de estas formas literarias breves del género.

Su obra se caracteriza por una prosa agradable en la que maneja hábilmente la emotividad y que está habitualmente salpicada de un fino humor. Algunas de sus novelas más importantes y varias narraciones breves tratan del viaje en el tiempo, pero la autora ha explorado otros temas como la investigación científica , las experiencias cercanas a la muerte , el retoque informático de películas , la exploración de un planeta , etc. Sin embargo todos ellos son más bien utilizados como meros escenarios, resultando de mayor importancia el cómo permiten introducir reflexiones sociales o profundizar en la psicología de los personajes.

También ha escrito fantasía, por ejemplo en Espíritu de la Navidad recopila varias historias de este género al tiempo que declara en su introducción su pasión por la Navidad y todo lo relacionado con ella.

Actualmente vive en Greely, Colorado, con su marido, Courtney Willis, profesor de física en la Universidad del Norte de Colorado, y con la hija de ambos, Cordelia. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. diciembre 1945   •   Otros nombres کانی ویلیس, 康妮·威利斯
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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”

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Connie Willis Passage

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“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 119)

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

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“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else—cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments—as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 4 “Rapids”, Section 1 (p. 140)

“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.”

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Connie Willis libro Doomsday Book

Fuente: Doomsday Book

“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.”

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“There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.”

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Fuente: Even the Queen: & Other Short Stories

“Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog

““The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?”
“God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.”
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.”

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Connie Willis libro Doomsday Book

Fuente: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 496)

“My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn’t have wasted his time looking for an honest man,” Shirl said, “he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 4 (p. 127)

““How dare you contradict their opinions! You are only a common servant.”
“Yes, miss,” he said wearily.
“You should be dismissed for being insolent to your betters.”
There was a long pause, and then Baine said, “All the diary entries and dismissals in the world cannot change the truth. Galileo recanted under threat of torture, but that did not make the sun revolve round the earth. If you dismiss me, the vase will still be vulgar, I will still be right, and your taste will still be plebeian, no matter what you write in your diary.”
“Plebeian?” Tossie said, bright pink. “How dare you speak like that to your mistress? You are dismissed.” She pointed imperiously at the house. “Pack your things immediately.”
“Yes, miss,” Baine said. “E pur si muove.”
“What?” Tossie said, bright red with rage. “What did you say?”
“I said, now that finally have dismissed me, I am no longer a member of the servant class and am therefore in a position to speak freely,” he said calmly.
“You are not in a position to speak to me at all,” Tossie said, raising her diary like a weapon. “Leave at once.”
“I dared to speak the truth to you because I felt you were deserving of it,” Baine said seriously. “I had only your best interests at heart, as I have always had. You have been blessed with great riches; not only with the riches of wealth, position, and beauty, but with a bright mind and a keen sensibility, as well as with a fine spirit. And yet you squander those riches on croquet and organdies and trumpery works of art. You have at your disposal a library of the great minds of the past, and yet you read the foolish novels of Charlotte Yonge and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Given the opportunity to study science, you converse with conjurors wearing cheesecloth and phosphorescent paint. Confronted by the glories of Gothic architecture, you admire instead a cheap imitation of it, and confronted by the truth, you stamp your foot like a spoilt child and demand to be told fairy stories.””

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 22 (p. 374)

“I would never save her. I looked at the woman mopping up the tea, and it came to me that I could not save her either. Enola or the cat or any of them, lost here in the endless stairways and cul-de-sacs of time. They were already dead a hundred years, past saving. The past is beyond saving. Surely that was the lesson the history department sent me all this way to learn. Well, fine, I’ve learned it. Can I go home now?”

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Fuente: Fire Watch (1982), pp. 129-130 in The Nebula Awards 18 edited by Robert Silverberg

“Baine, what do you think of this?” Tossie said, indicating the bishop’s bird stump. “Don’t you agree it’s the most beautiful piece of art you’ve ever seen?”
Baine straightened and looked at it, blinking water out of his eyes.
There was a considerable pause while Baine wrung out his sleeve. “No.”
“No?” Tossie said, making it into a screamlet.
“No.”…
“What do you mean, ‘no’?”
“I mean the sculpture is a hideous atrocity, vulgarly conceived, badly designed, and shoddily executed,” he said, folding the shawl carefully and bending to lay it back in the bundle.
“How dare you say that,” Tossie said, her cheeks very pink.
Baine straightened. “I beg you pardon, miss. I thought you were asking my opinion.”
“I was, but I expected you to tell me you thought it was beautiful.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

He bowed slightly. “As you wish, miss.” He looked at it, his face impassive. “It is very beautiful.”
Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 19 (p. 333; the ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)

“Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 2 “Bubblings”, Section 3 (p. 63)

“Nobody deserves this. “Please,” she prayed, and wasn’t sure what she asked.
Whatever it was, it was not granted.”

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Connie Willis libro Doomsday Book

Fuente: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 498)

“Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 4 “Rapids”, Section 2 (p. 151)

“Servants don’t travel with their employers.”
“How do they do without them?”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

”They don’t.”

Chapter 18 (pp. 317-318)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998)

““What’s going on?” I whispered to Gina.
“Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,” she murmured back. “So they’ve invented a new acronym.””

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 1 “Beginning”, Section 4 (p. 33)

““They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?” Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.””

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Connie Willis libro Doomsday Book

Fuente: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)

“There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 2 “Bubblings”, Section 5 (p. 75)

“The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.”

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Connie Willis libro To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fuente: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 26 (p. 436)

“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”

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Connie Willis libro Doomsday Book

Fuente: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 326)

“It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.”

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Connie Willis libro Doomsday Book

Fuente: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 20 (p. 320)

“You shouldn’t be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that’s what science is all about.”

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Connie Willis Bellwether

Fuente: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 5 “Main Channel”, Section 2 (p. 226)

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