I found this blog by Eleanor Arnason as I researched material for Women of Futures Past. Eleanor has kindly allowed me to share it here. The blog originally appeared in Strange Horizons, and articulates exactly how I felt as I…
Tag: Connie Willis
“Fire Watch” by Connie Willis
The story I’d like most to include of Connie Willis’s is “Fire Watch,” which she initially published in 1982. It’s clear she wrote it before the Berlin Wall fell. It’s also rather disconcerting to see that a whole bunch of…
“Even the Queen,” by Connie Willis
I’ll be honest: “Even the Queen” is not my favorite Connie Willis story, but it is an important Connie Willis story, written (according to Connie’s afterword in The Best of Connie Willis) because she was told at a feminist sf convention she doesn’t…
“At The Rialto,” by Connie Willis
I decided as I got into this process that I would definitely have work by certain authors. In my opinion, you can’t discuss science fiction, let alone women in science fiction, without dealing with its most popular authors. Sometimes that…