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Promised Land Promised Land by Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice
reviewed by Donna McMahon
Imagine you are an intelligent, ambitious young woman, just graduated from university. You travel to a backwater planet in order to settle your deceased mother's affairs, hoping to collect your inheritance, and get away within 24 hours. When you arrive, the lawyer informs you that you were betrothed as a child and, under the laws of this dismal colony, you are now legally married to a hick farmer who is here to take you back to his remote rural hovel.

Passage Passage by Connie Willis
reviewed by Rich Horton
Her new novel concerns Near Death Experiences (NDEs), and the attempts of a couple of researchers to explain them as the reaction of the brain and body to the physical conditions of dying -- with a glimmer of hope that such understanding might even lead to a means of bringing more people back from the brink of death. As such, the book deals with several people on the verge of dying -- including some who have, as it were, been there and back.

Miracle and Other Christmas Stories Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis
reviewed by Rich Horton
The Christmas story seems a natural in Willis' hands. Her stories are almost always at least fun to read, and often very moving. Even though this collection is restricted to Christmas stories, it reveals her wide range just as well as her previous collection does. Definitely worth reading, at any season of the year.

To Say Nothing of the Dog To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
reviewed by Thomas Myer
As the plot chases down the streets of Victorian Oxford and down the Thames, our hero collects a gaggle of hilarious characters, trying to set things straight, bungling about as many things as he gets right. In the background of the narrative, the entire time-space continuum is at risk, threatening the end of everything as we know it.

To Say Nothing of the Dog To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
reviewed by Margo MacDonald
Interwoven with humour, wit and unfailing romanticism, this book is a pure pleasure which leaves you feeling as relaxed and satisfied as a picnic on a green lawn by a rolling river on a warm summer's day.

To Say Nothing of the Dog To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
reviewed by Steven H Silver
Steven has enjoyed several Connie Willis short stories or novellas. At longer lengths, he subscribes to the minority opinion that her work is vastly overrated. While sure that To Say Nothing of the Dog will sell well and may even garner Willis another Hugo or Nebula, it is another book supporting his opinion that she should stick with short fiction and stay away from time travel.

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