Among other tales of interest in this first collection are Daisy, in the Sun (November 1979 Galileo 1991 chap), 'A Letter from the Clearys' (July 1982 Asimov's), which won a Nebula, 'The Sidon in the Mirror' (April 1983 Asimov's) and the comic 'Blued Moon' (January 1984 Asimov's). Most of her best work of the 1980s was in short-story form her first book, Fire Watch (coll 19 chap) (for this story see below), assembled a remarkable range of tales, mostly from the 1980s, 'All My Darling Daughters' – published as an original in Fire Watch because its language and theme were still unacceptable in the US magazine market of 1980 – is a significantly harsh tale of alienation and Sex set in a boarding school in an L5 orbit, where the male students rape small animals (apparently products of Genetic Engineering) which have vagina-like organs, making them scream in pain and the female protagonist tries to make sense of her hyperbolic adolescence in terms strongly reminiscent of J D Salinger (1919-2010).

She began publishing sf with 'Santa Titicaca' for Worlds of Fantasy (Winter 1970/1971 #3), but appeared only intermittently in the field until the early 1980s, when she became a full-time author, winning several awards almost immediately. Working name of US teacher and author Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (1945- ).

Fire Watch by Connie Willis