She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s. Remember, this is the second of FOUR Book Club Reads this year, we will be voting in July for our Young Adult Read September 1, so head over to the Cannonball Read Book Chat to tell me your suggestions since I believe in the power of crowdsourcing.Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. Or you can just tell us how you feel about the book.
How do you interpret the perceived differences between the religion of the past and that practiced in the future? What does that lend or take away from the story? Kivrin is an admirable heroine, which is a change from the contemporary popularity of unreliable narrators.What elements of craft stood out to you, for better or worse? Willis spent five years in the writing of this book and it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards.What is Willis trying to tell us about compassion and suffering through Kivrin, Dunworthy, and Father Roche?.What meaning do they add to the narrative? Bells are a constant in the book, both in 2054 and the 1300s.What are your impressions of how historians are going about the study of history in 2054? How do you feel about the addition of the scientific method?.
Here are our topics to begin our conversation: The guidelines above are in effect there too. There are also some additional topics that I’ll be putting up over at our Facebook Group, Cannonball Read Book Chat, throughout the course of the afternoon if you feel like chatting there as well.
Please reference the topic number you are responding to (if you are) so other Book Clubbers can hunt up the topics they want to discuss with you.The goal around here is to have a conversation, so do try to keep the thoughts flowing and give your fellow readers something to respond to. Since we’re anticipating lots of conversation, please try your best to reply directly to each other, that way they are alerted and can keep discussing!.Let’s dig in!īut first, let’s start with a few ground rules: I’ve been looking forward to having this discussion since I finished the book. It looks like lots of you have read this book and are ready to chat about it with your fellow readers. Welcome to our June Book Discussion of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
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