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We were three kloms from King’s X when Carson spotted the dust.

Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis

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This is a reread of a Connie Willis novella from the 90s. I reread it because this is a new audiobook version. We find ourselves on a kind of archeological/anthropological/paleontology survey of a foreign planet. The survey crew is abuzz because of a new member showing up that day. Evelyn is not a woman to the chagrin the male members of the crew and to the delight of at least one of the women. The novel then goes into the rules, regulations, and guidance that […]

Victims of our emotions and wishful thinking.

Crosstalk by Connie Willis

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This is another comedy of errors/romantic comedy in the vein of To Say Nothing of the Dog, but not one tied to a historical/time travel narrative. In that way, it’s also quite similar to Bellwether. Briddy works for a global communications technology company and the word is out that she and her fiance, one of the junior vice president types in the company are about to be engaged. Before they get engaged though, her boyfriend has asked to her have a EED, an empathetic implant […]

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

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

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I absolutely devoured Doomsday Book a few weeks ago in a matter of days, which at 600 pages, was a relatively fast pace. This book, 500 pages, similar in its conceit took me longer in terms of days and a lot longer in terms of energy spent. I languished with this one at times, and while I sometimes run cold with Willis, I was hoping for a similar set of reactions to the previous novel of hers that I read. So the conceit here is […]

“You can’t go back,” Gilchrist said. “Haven’t you heard? We’re under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy’s carelessness.”

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

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This is one of the first books in a very long time that I considered staying up well past my bedtime to continue reading, almost any of the given nights I was reading this. Usually I am very happy to settle down at my normal time without reading on. I tried reading this years ago and the mass market edition of the book was just too much. So if you don’t know about the Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis — which includes this […]

I looked that up one day in February, the day I went out to see where Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie was buried.

Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

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I feel like maybe this is a fairly lost Connie Willis novel, where her career has been so defined by the infinite numbers of Hugo and Nebula Awards she has won, and of course the sheer heft and size of her large and longer novels. But I liked this one. It’s better than the other early short novels she wrote in the mid 1980s by a wide margin I feel. It also just happens to coincide with my growing up and current life in some […]



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