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Distress Call

by Connie Willis

Author spotlight

Published in Dec. 2013 (Issue 15) | 77 words
© 1981 by Connie Willis

At the request of the author’s representatives, this story has been removed from our online archive. If you’d like to read it, you can still find it in the ebook edition of the Dec. 2013 issue of Nightmare. We apologize for the inconvenience.

—John Joseph Adams
Editor/Publisher
Nightmare Magazine

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Connie Willis

willisFew authors have enjoyed as much success as Connie Willis. A prolific novelist and short story writer, Willis has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for her fiction. She is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and in 2011 was named a SFWA Grand Master. She lives in Colorado with her family.