Showing posts with label speculative fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speculative fiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

[27-02-2014] Passage


This Wednesday we met to discuss Passage (2001) – a novel written by one of the most read American writers of science fiction. In spite of the fact that the work received The Locus Award in 2002 (the winners are selected by the readers of Locus: The magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field, hence the name) BLAST had some second thoughts about it.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Connie Willis (1945 - )

Connie Willis is one of the most read American writers of speculative fiction. She has won 11 Hugo Awards, 11 Locus Poll Awards and 8 Nebula Awards for best science fiction/fantasy works. Her literary career started in 1971 when she published a story “The Secret of Santa Titicaca” in Worlds of Fantasy