Best Selling Books by Connie WILLIS

« Un thriller qu''on lit d''une traite. » Publishers Weekly « L''évocation la plus saisissante de l''Angleterre pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale que l''on ait jamais écrite. » The Washington Post « L''un des plus grands auteurs américains. » The Denver Post Londres, 29 décembre 1940 : l''une des nuits les plus meurtrières du Blitz. Pris au coeur de l''un des pires raids de l''époque, les historiens du futur Michael, Merope et Polly cherchent désespérément à revenir au XXIe siècle. En attendant de trouver un moyen de s''échapper, le trio tente de survivre aux bombardements et aux évacuations, mais il y a plus grave encore : d''après les archives oxfordiennes de 2060, il semblerait que leurs interventions aient modifié le cours des événements... et la guerre pourrait bien se terminer autrement, bouleversant l''Histoire à jamais. Quelle que soit l''ampleur des sacrifices exigés, les voyageurs du futur doivent s''engager dans un combat acharné contre le temps...

Connie Willis is one of science fiction''s most decorated authors, with a staggering eleven HUGOs and seven NEBULA AWARDs to her name. She is best known for her sequence of time-travel stories including SF Masterworks DOOMSDAY BOOK and TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG and the HUGO AWARD-winning diptych BLACKOUT and ALL CLEAR. This omnibus collects her solo debut, LINCOLN''S DREAMS, which won the JOHN W. CAMPBELL MEMORIAL AWARD and PASSAGE, shortlisted for the HUGO, NEBULA JOHN W. CAMPBELL and ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDs.

The world, as we know it, has changed considerably. A civil war is raging, between the eastern half of North America and the west. The latest methods of destruction are frightening, brutal, inescapable. They are called light raids - massive laser-beam assaults that are as effective as they are merciless. Seventeen-year-old Hellene Ariadne, daughter of a prominent Western scientist, has been evacuated to Victoria for her protection. When the letters from her parents suddenly stop, Ariadne is forced to leave the safety of the North and return to her home in Denver Springs. There she finds her house in ruins, the city devastated by a huge light raid. Ariadne assumes that her parents are dead. But the truth is much worse: her mother is in prison, accused of sabotage and treason, and her father is left helpless, an emotional cripple. It is up to Ariadne to clear her mother''s name. But, as she plunges deeper and deeper into a fatal web of intrigue and deception, she discovers that there are truths far more shocking than war, more devastating than the fiercest light raids...

Theodora Baumgarten has just been selected as an IASA space cadet, and therein lies the problem. She didn''t apply for the ultra-coveted posting, and doesn''t relish spending years aboard the ship to which she''s been assigned. But the plucky young heroine, in true Heinlein fashion, has no plans to go along with the program. Aided by her hacker best friend Kimkim, in a screwball comedy that has become Connie Wills'' hallmark, Theodora will stop at nothing to uncover the conspiracy that has her shanghaied.

"... Combines the glamour of old Hollywood and the eternal allure of Broadway to explore the cutting edge robotics of a richly-imagined near future"--From publisher description.

Edward Bryant influenced a generation of readers and writers. Edward Bryant''s Sphere of Influence contains twenty-four stories influenced by a master of science-fiction and horror. In this book you''ll discover the extraordinary influence of a master''s touch!

Dust jacket illustration, Ã2018 by Jon Foster.

In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060--the setting for several of her most celebrated works--and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler''s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief of time-travel theory--but suddenly it seems that the theory is horribly, tragically wrong. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians'' supervisor, Mr. Dunworthy, and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who nurses a powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle of their own--to find three missing needles in the haystack of history. Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and devastating, All Clear is more than just the triumphant culmination of the adventure that began with Blackout. It''s Connie Willis''s most humane, heartfelt novel yet--a clear-eyed celebration of faith, love, and the quiet, ordinary acts of heroism and sacrifice too often overlooked by history.

Typescript of unpublished first novel. Accompanied by typescript of revision and one photocopy of same revision.