The science fiction of Connie Willis It is the friendly type, in which any reader can enter without having to pull the master keys that only those who are very fond of the genre have. It's like from the same school as the one that has already disappeared Michael crichton, who also liked the alternation between his fictions with cifi fantasies loaded with parallel worlds, dystopias and uchronias ...
With particular affection I remember that oxford historians series On the one that I will focus on in this selection because they led me through those kinds of fantasies that to a greater extent won me over to the cause of reading in my youth, but which are still perfectly readable in adulthood as fascinating adventures. Because the adventure genre is valid at any time, see if you do not agree with "Don Quixote" and consider what genre the work of works belongs to ...
The point is that Connie offers that perfect sampler in which science fiction and adventure complement each other perfectly. On some occasions, the plot is defeated more towards the suspense typical of any adventure and in other books what predominates is that taste for science fiction as a plot in itself. But the undoubted thing is that in Connie Willis we always have a reading as a true holiday.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Connie Willis
The book of the day of final judgment
Everything that addresses the pandemic from science fiction sounds prophetic to us today. But it is that among so much projective literature on past and future, the imagination of the narrators is so powerful that reality ends up confirming narrative omens ...
Originally published in 1992, it is one of the best books on pandemics ever written, winning the Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards for best novel. In it, a historian from the University of Oxford who lives in the year 2054 decides to travel to England in 1320, but a strange crisis that links past and future alters her plans.
At the same time, a particularly virulent epidemic is raging in mid-XNUMXst century England. Have time travelers infected your own world? The protagonist, in the past, and her colleagues, in the future, will face killer pathogens in a masterpiece that explores how humans respond to the suffering generated by an unknown catastrophe.
The blackout
The time-honored space-time paradoxes, the considerable risks of modifying the future of History with the simple fluttering of a butterfly that traveling to the past can entail. Very tasty dilemmas for lovers of this type of narrative between shots ...
Oxford University, 2060. Time travel is common among historians to investigate the past. Three young historians are sent to England in the 1940s to see the era first-hand. Polly Churchill travels to London in the middle of the Nazi bombing to observe the lives of the employees of a department store.
Mike Davies will pose as an American journalist to cover the evacuation from Dunkirk. And Eileen O'Reilly will join a Warwickshire estate service to watch the many groups of children arriving evacuated from London. In principle, nothing is out of the merely routine.
But upon reaching their destinations, historians warn that they have missed the time of arrival not for a few hours (as usual), but for several days. It soon becomes clear that a tremendous disaster is about to strike that could disrupt both the past and the future.
Cessation of alert
The expected conclusion of The blackout. The exciting time that began in The blackout rushes into Cessation of alert, to an impressive resolution that will surprise even the most seasoned of readers. On The blackout, the great lady of science fiction, Connie Willis, sent three historians from Oxford in 2060 to World War II.
In this fast-paced journey back in time, Michael Davies, Merope Ward and Churchill Polly are trapped in 1940, trying to survive Hitler's bombings and free London from its yoke as they do their best to find their way home again.
En Cessation of alert, the situation has become even more serious, and we will live the consequences of that journey in which our protagonists were trapped, since it seems that all of them affected, in some way, the past, changing the outcome of the war and, consequently , the course of history.
