- Hugo Award Winner, Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's [Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)][1]. [Robert A. Heinlein][2] mentioned the earlier work in [Have Spacesuit will Travel][3] as Kip's father's favorite. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1793164W/Three_Men_in_a_Boat_(to_say_nothing_of_the_dog) [2]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._Heinlein [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59727W/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel
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Comic, nostalgic, warm and cool.
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- Author
- Connie Willis
- First published
- February 3, 2003
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, A part of gale, Cengage Learning, Transworld Publishers Limited, Gollancz
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, Korean, French
- ISBN
- 9780575131132
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**Connie Willis** is an internationally known science fiction author and the winner of an unprecedented total of seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards. She is also the first author to have won both the Hugo and Nebula in all four fiction categories. In 2009, she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and in 2012 she became a Nebula Grand Master of Science Fiction. Willis is the author of *Doomsday Book*, winner of the Nebula and Hugo awards for Best Science Fiction Novel; *Lincoln’s Dreams*, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel; and *To Say Nothing of the Dog*, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Her other fiction includes
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