- Fiction, Popular culture, Research, Science Fiction
Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and warm.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Connie Willis
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307571946
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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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