With a prickling feeling along his scalp, Radi stopped and looked back at Deza. She smiled at him. Surely she hadn’t really been talking to the ghost of Akida all this time. Surely this voice he was hearing was only an aberration brought on by adrenalin. Once the excitement was over, the voice would fade to what it really was, his boyhood memory of the great man.
—I wouldn’t count on that,—the voice said.—Anyway, what are you griping about? Edvar could have given you a pet mbuzi, too. Then where would you be?—
Cynthia Felice & Connie Willis
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Also By Connie Willis
Novels
Lincoln’s Dream (1987)
The Doomsday Book (1992)
Uncharted Territory (1994)
Remake (1994)
Bellwether (1996)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997)
Passage (2001)
With Cynthia Felice
Water Witch (1982)
Light Raid (1989)
Promised Land (1997)
Collections
Fire Watch (1985)
Impossible Things (1993)
Even the Queen: And Other Short Stories (1998)
The Miracle of Christmas (1999)
The Winds of Marble Arch: And Other Stories (2007)
Dedication
To Ed Bryant and the Colorado Milfordians, without whom this book would have been full of stunning gaffs, and other stunning gaffes.
Connie Willis (1945 – )
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1945. Having earned a BA in English and elementary education from the University of North Colorado, she spent a brief stint in the late 1960s working as a teacher, until she left to raise her first child. During this period she began writing SF, with her first publication, ‘The Secret of Santa Titicaca’, appearing in Worlds of Fantasy in 1971. Willis is a highly decorated author and has won, among other accolades, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards for work of all lengths: short stories, novellas, novelettes and novels alike. She was recently named an SFWA Grand Master. Willis currently lives in Greeley, Colorado with her family.
Cynthia Felice (1942 – )
Cynthia Felice, who grew up in Chicago, is an American SF writer. She was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1979 after the publication of her first novel, Godsfire, in 1978. Felice has co-authored three novels with Connie Willis: Water Witch (1982), Light Raid (1989) and Promised Land (1997).
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