“Mail-Order Clone” ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1982) “Daisy, in the Sun” ( Galileo, November 1979) - Hugo nominee “The Sidon in the Mirror” ( Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1983) - Hugo and Nebula nominee “And Come from Miles Around” ( Galileo, September 1979) “A Letter from the Clearys” ( Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1982) - Nebula Award winner “The Father of the Bride” ( Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, May 1982) “All My Darling Daughters” (1985) – original “Lost and Found” ( Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, January 1982) “Service for the Burial of the Dead” ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1982) “Fire Watch” ( Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 15, 1982) - Hugo and Nebula Award winner Here’s the complete TOC, with annotations on the various awards and nominations ‘n such. I’m embarrassed to admit that, aside from some Christmas tales and some scattered short stories, I haven’t read much Connie Willis, so I’m very much looking forward to reading this one straight through. It also contains another Nebula Award winner (“A Letter from the Clearys”), one story original to the collection (“All My Darling Daughters”), and multiple award nominees. This is a stellar collection of 12 tales, including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story, “Fire Watch,” which features a time-traveling student and is set in the same milieu as her award-winning novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog. The inside flap includes a list of the other 9 Connie Willis titles Bantam Spectra had in print by 1998 across from that were one-sentence teasers for seven of the dozen stories contained within. Still, I’m very fond of my 1998 reprint, mostly because of the stompin’ John Jude Palencar cover, which is brilliant. Fire Watch was published in hardcover by James Frenkel’s Bluejay Books in 1985 the first paperback edition appeared from Bantam a year later (see that one below). The copy above is the the one I found at Half Price Books last month, and not the first paperback edition. Willis published over half a dozen additional collections in the next 30+ years, including the Locus Award-winning Impossible Things (1994), the monumental 740-page The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories (2007), and the Locus Award-winning The Best of Connie Willis (2013), but I think it’s fair to say that this is probably still her most famous. Its publication announced the arrival of a major new talent.
John Harrison, and losing out only to Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew). Martin’s Nightflyers, Larry Niven’s Limits, and Viriconium Nights by M. It came in second for the Locus Award for Best Collection in 1986 (beating out George R.R.
Fire Watch was the first collection from Connie Willis, and it had a huge impact on the field.
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