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A review by macloo
The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories by Connie Willis
4.0
I came across this collection on a discount table in a bookstore in Denver, and I'm so glad I did.
Hugo Award winners in this collection:
* "Fire Watch," novelette : 1983 — really excellent! Belongs to Willis's Oxford time-traveling historians series. (Also won the Nebula Award.)
* "The Last of the Winnebagos," novella : 1989 — one of the saddest stories I've ever read (I cried). (Also won the Nebula Award.)
* "Even the Queen," short story : 1993 — hilarious! Worth the price of the book just for this. (Also won the Nebula Award.)
* "Death on the Nile," short story : 1994 — funny and also surreal.
* "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective," short story : 1997 — amusing, but not a favorite for me.
* "The Winds of Marble Arch," novella : 2000 — didn't love this one. Seemed like a mediocre Twilight Zone episode.
* "Inside Job," novella : 2006 — as a journalist, I gotta love a story that includes H. L. Mencken's ghost, a sleazy spirit channeler, and a Sam Spade–like debunker of psychics.
* "All Seated on the Ground," novella : 2008 — funny and entertaining story about a few annoyed aliens on Earth and a likable choir director at Christmas-time.
Nebula Award winners:
* "A Letter from the Clearys," short story : 1983 — this also seems like a Twilight Zone episode, but a memorable one.
* "At the Rialto," novelette : 1990 — I enjoyed the quantum physics angle very much! Set at a physicists' convention, it's quite funny in unexpected ways.
Hugo Award winners in this collection:
* "Fire Watch," novelette : 1983 — really excellent! Belongs to Willis's Oxford time-traveling historians series. (Also won the Nebula Award.)
* "The Last of the Winnebagos," novella : 1989 — one of the saddest stories I've ever read (I cried). (Also won the Nebula Award.)
* "Even the Queen," short story : 1993 — hilarious! Worth the price of the book just for this. (Also won the Nebula Award.)
* "Death on the Nile," short story : 1994 — funny and also surreal.
* "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective," short story : 1997 — amusing, but not a favorite for me.
* "The Winds of Marble Arch," novella : 2000 — didn't love this one. Seemed like a mediocre Twilight Zone episode.
* "Inside Job," novella : 2006 — as a journalist, I gotta love a story that includes H. L. Mencken's ghost, a sleazy spirit channeler, and a Sam Spade–like debunker of psychics.
* "All Seated on the Ground," novella : 2008 — funny and entertaining story about a few annoyed aliens on Earth and a likable choir director at Christmas-time.
Nebula Award winners:
* "A Letter from the Clearys," short story : 1983 — this also seems like a Twilight Zone episode, but a memorable one.
* "At the Rialto," novelette : 1990 — I enjoyed the quantum physics angle very much! Set at a physicists' convention, it's quite funny in unexpected ways.