CONNIE WILLIS AT BOOKWORKS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 — 6:00-7:30 PM
Connie Willis, Colorado award-winning author, will read from the time-travel novel she currently is working on – and sign the trade paperback edition of The Road To Roswell: A Novel 6:00-7:30 pm Tuesday, Nov 26, at Albuquerque’s Bookworks.
Roswell Storyline: When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. Odder still, her abductor is far from what the popular media have led her to expect, with a body like a tumbleweed and a mass of lightning-fast tentacles. Nor is Francie the only victim of the alien’s abduction spree. Before long, he has acquired a charming con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for old Westerns, and a UFO-chasing nutjob who is thoroughly convinced the alien intends to probe them and/or take over the planet. But the more Francie gets to know the alien, the more convinced she becomes that he’s not an invader. That he’s in trouble and she has to help him. Only she doesn’t know how—or even what the trouble is.
Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for her fiction; Blackout and All Clear—a novel in two parts—and Doomsday Book won both. Her other works include Crosstalk, Passage, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Terra Incognita, The Best of Connie Willis, and A Lot Like Christmas. Willis lives with her family, a bulldog, and a cat in Colorado. She has visited Roswell a number of times but has never seen a single alien, except on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, magnets, and cookie jars. Connie Willis is currently working on a new Oxford historians time-travel novel set at Tintern Abbey, Westminster Bridge, and Oxford.