Connie Willis has joined the illustrious caller of Ursula K. LeGuin and Isaac Asimov — she ’s the writer is the 2011 success of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award . The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America salute this honor annually for lifetime accomplishment in science fiction and fantasy , at the Nebula ceremony in May .
As the author of fifteen novel ( from The Doomsday Book to All Clear ) and numerous scant account , Willis is both prolific and beloved . Her statementis characteristically wizardly :
Being named a Nebula Grand Master is an unimaginable honor – quite literally . When I begin write science fable as a teenager , my grown end was to actually sell a story . My greatest castles - in - the - melodic line fantasy was to someday get ahead a Nebula Award . If you ’d evidence that adolescent girlfriend that she ’d someday end up a Nebula Grand Master , with her identify linked to those of the author she worship , demigod like Jack Williamson , Ray Bradbury , Joe Haldeman , and Robert A. Heinlein , she ’d NEVER have believe it .
This latest honor should also go nicely with her seven Nebulas and eleven Hugos . Click throughfor appreciations of her study from John Scalzi , Joe Haldeman , and others .
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