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One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Connie Willis

Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.

Connie Willis

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

Connie Willis

Connie Willis

Connie Willis

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Born: December 31, 1945 (age 78)

Bio: Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fictionAll Clear. 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.

Known for:

Doomsday Book (1992)
Blackout/All Clear (2010)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997)
Lincoln's Dreams (1987)
Bellwether (1996)

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