The Best of Connie Willis

Copyright

The Best of Connie Willis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Introduction and new text copyright © 2013 by Connie Willis

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Most of the stories in this work have been previously published in Asimov’s Science Fiction. “At the Rialto” was originally published in Omni. “The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invation and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Wellsian Perspective”: was originally published in War of the Worlds” Global Dispatches edited by Kevin J. Anderson (New York: Spectra, 1996).

Previous publication information can be found on this page.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Willis, Connie.

The best of Connie Willis : award-winning stories / Connie Willis.

pages cm

All ten of her Hugo and Nebula award-winning short stories.

eISBN: 978-0-345-54065-2

1. Science fiction, American. I. Title. II. Title: Award-winning stories.

PS3573.I45652B47 2013

813′.54—dc23

2013000495

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Jacket design: Faceout Studio/Charles Brock

Jacket photograph: © Louise Leppard

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