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May 3, 2024 | 
kunc.org | Connie Willis
The Force is strong with Colorado. For starters, there's Gov. Jared Polis, who regularly invokes Star Wars and other sci-fi stories in press conferences and state of the state addresses. Then there's the fact that the first-ever Star Wars Celebration - the largest gathering for fans of the franchise - was held in Denver in 1999. And a recent survey shows that Colorado is the fourth-most passionate state when it comes to Star Wars.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
newspub.live | Connie Willis |Matt Haig |Andy Weir |Delia Owens
Troubleshooting a computer that won’t start is frustrating, but the panic of losing your data is far worse. If you can’t get your computer to boot and you don’t have a backup, don’t freak out just yet; you have a few options. There’s always a possibility your hard drive is corrupted or dead, in which case data recovery is going to be costly or impossible.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
blogarama.com | Connie Willis |Matt Haig |Andy Weir |Delia Owens
Do you love reading yet struggle to find the time for it? Don’t worry, you can still enjoy a good book without having to sit down and read. How? By listening to Audiobooks. Audiobooks are a convenient way to experience a good story while you’re doing other things. You can listen to them on your way to work, while you are exercising, cleaning the house or doing any other activity that doesn’t need your full attention.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Connie Willis
Jesse Vilinsky and Connie Willis have a marvelous time in this delightful homage to road trips, old Westerns, romance, alien hunters, and, well, aliens. When Francie arrives in Roswell during the UFO Festival, she's trying to stop a friend's UFO-themed wedding. Then she's abducted by an alien who is on an unusual quest. When they're joined by an elderly gambler, a UFO hunter, an RV owner, and a mysterious hitchhiker, the adventure is on.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Connie Willis |Max Brooks |Ray Nayler
by Connie Willis ‧ There’s nobody quite like Willis for good-hearted, fast-paced fun. A skeptic abducted by an extraterrestrial with a mission finds herself on a road trip around the desert in Willis’ latest cheerily frenetic genre-blending romp. Francie Driscoll’s college roommate and best friend, Serena, has a habit of getting engaged to the wrong guy.
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Jun 4, 2023 | 
dailykos.com | Angela Marx |Connie Willis
Genre — Time Travel Of all genres, over the long decades of my reading life, my most favorite stories involve time travel of one sort or another. It can be via relativity and starships, via a Curse or Spell, via a time machine or any other number of time portals. Because in a time travel story you never know just when your protagonist will end up. Diana Gabaldon — Outlander seriesA research Professor at Arizona State U for twelve years, Gabaldon had always thought she’d be an author.
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Robert Levy |Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Ann Leckie |Connie Willis
Gabriela Romero Lacruz. Orbit, $18.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-33654-3Romero Lacruz debuts and launches her Warring Gods series with a spellbinding sapphic epic fantasy about two young women navigating a world steeped in prejudice, folklore, and ancient magic. When Reina Duvianos, a “half-nozariel in a country hostile to her kind,” receives a summons from her estranged, magic-wielding grandmother, Doña Ursulina Duvianos, she sets off across the treacherous mountains.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Robert Levy |Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Ann Leckie |Connie Willis
Emma Törzs. Morrow, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-325346-9Törzs’s spellbinding fantasy debut imagines a parallel Earth where gruesome magical spell books are written with the blood and bodies of people known as Scribes. Nicholas is tired of living in the gilded cage that is the Library, home to the world’s largest collection of spellbooks, where he is routinely bled by his overbearing uncle, Richard Maxwell, to fulfill magical commissions.
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ann Leckie |Connie Willis |Saara El-Arifi |Justin Cronin
Josh Rountree. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61696-394-1A paean to turn of the 20th century Galveston, Tex., Rountree’s romp of a debut novel (after the collection Fantastic Americana) combines a historical disaster with fantastical elements, including a creature who would fit right in, in the Black Lagoon.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ann Leckie |Connie Willis |Saara El-Arifi |Justin Cronin
Iori Kusano. Neon Hemlock, $13.99 trade paper (110p) ISBN 978-1-952086-58-8Kusano brings the vibrant world of J-Pop into stunning clarity in their near-future debut novella. Rei must navigate the semidystopian world of Japanese pop idols as a solo act after her best friend and former duo member, Ririko, gets caught with a secret boyfriend despite a contractual obligation not to fall in love.
