Description: A misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck thrust together Sandra Foster, a sociologist who studies fads, and Bennet OReilly, a chaos theorist, for a surprising joint venture.
Brief description:
Connie Willis is a science fiction writer and winner of eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards--more major science fiction awards than any other writer. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011. She was presented with the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 2012 and has received a number of other awards, including an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2008. Her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book.
Review Quotes:
"Connie Willis deploys the apparatus of science fiction to illuminate character and relationships, and her writing is fresh, subtle, and deeply moving."
-- "New York Times Book Review"