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Connie Willis : Awards

Connie Willis is the most award winning Science Fiction writer ever having, to date, won 8 Nebula, 12 Hugo and 14 Locus awards. In 2012 the Science Fiction Writers Association presented Willis with the lifetime achievement honor, the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award joining the likes of Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. 

Nebula - The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, full members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and because of this voting body, the Nebulas are thought to be the most prestigious science fiction award. Categories for this award include Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, Best Short Story, the Ray Bradbury Award for Dramatic Presentation, Game Writing, and The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. Winners are included in the organization’s annual anthology; Willis was the editor of that anthology in 1999, the Nebula Awards 33.  Every spring there is an banquet that is proceeded by meetings and panel discussions. The first awards were presented in 1965.

Hugo - The World Science Fiction Society began awarding the Hugo Awards in 1953. Named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories and considered one of the “fathers” of the science fiction genre, awards are given according to several different categories, including Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, Best Short Story, and new in 2017, the Best Series award was begun. The Society's members vote on the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year; the awards are presented at the annual World Science Fiction Convention. 

LocusThe Locus Science Fiction Foundation is responsible for the annual Locus Awards which recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature and also provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. The categories are: Science Fiction Novel, Fantasy Novel, Horror Novel, Young Adult Novel, First Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Anthology, Collection, Publisher, Editor, Artist, Non-Fiction, Illustrated and Art Book.  Having begun in 1971, the Locus magazine's annual readers' poll selects the winners.  In recent years the awards are presented at an annual banquet.

1983

Fire Watch

Nebula and Hugo

Best Novelette 

1990

At the Rialto

Nebula

Best Novelette

1994

Death on the Nile

Hugo

Best Short Story

1996

Remake

Locus

Best Novella

1998

Newsletter

Locus

Best Novelette

2000

The Winds of Marble Arch

Hugo

Best Novella

2008

Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

Locus

Best Collection

2012

Connie Willis

Grand Master Award

1983

A Letter from the Clearys

Nebula

Best Short Story

1993

Even the Queen

Nebula, Hugo and Locus

Best Short Story

1994

Impossible Things

Locus

Best Collection

1997

The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective

Hugo

Best Short Story

1999

To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

Hugo and Locus

Best Novel

2002

Passage

Locus

Best SF Novel

2008

All Seated on the Ground

Hugo

Best Novella

2014

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

Locus

Best Collection

 

1989

The Last of the Winnebagos

Nebula and Hugo

Best Novella

1993

Doomsday Book

Nebula, Hugo and Locus

Best Novel

1994

Close Encounter

Locus

Best Short Story

1997

Bellwether

Locus

Best Novella

1999

Connie Willis

Locus

Best SF/Fantasy Author of the 90's

 

2006

Inside Job

Hugo

Best Novella

2011

Blackout and All Clear

Nebula, Hugo and Locus

Best Novel