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Connie Willis, like Stephen King, is a WRITER who chooses to work with genre materials, rather than a genre writer. Your pointed lack of reference to any sort of genre connection was refreshing and essentially correct. Willis is at the bottom an explorer in the vast ocean of possible human (and occasionmal et) relationships. She transcends genre in the same way that It, King's master work, does, by examining the lives of people who happen to be in a genre setting but are by no means genre characters. She is, quite simply, without equal when seen as a writer of genre futuristic fiction. Thanks for recognizing the one "sci-fi" writer that I can still bear reading.
