Connie Willis’s Science Fiction : Doomsday Every Day (Paperback)

Introduction

PART I: Contagion

Chapter One: All This Has Happened Before, and All This Will Happen Again: Doomsday Book and Recurring Pandemics

Joelle L. Renstrom

Chapter Two: Flip Passes: Interpreting Agency and Contagion in Bellwether

Jill Marie Treftz

PART II: Individual and Collective Trauma

Chapter Three: Emergency Unpreparedness: Responses to Disaster in Connie Willis’s Passage Matthew Newcomb

Chapter Four: Taking it Personally: Private Engagement with Public Trauma from World War II to J.F.K.

Janet L. Bland

PART III: Incarnation and Embodiment

Chapter Five: "You Were Here All Along": Doomsday Book and the Bodies of Christ

Chad Schrock

Chapter Six: Christmas Every Day: Incarnational Theology in Connie Willis’s "Inn" and "Epiphany"

Erin Newcomb

PART IV: Intertextuality

Chapter Seven: Bell Speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book

William Tate

Chapter Eight: Finding Love (and Truth?) in the Midst of Chaos: The Influence of Dorothy L. Sayers’s Detective Fiction on To Say Nothing of the Dog

Christine A. Colon

PART V: Genre, Gender, and Xenophobia

Chapter Nine: The Mote in the Jester’s Eye: Aspects of Race and Gender in Connie Willis’s Light Short Fiction

Sylvia Kelso

Chapter Ten: "Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant": Rhetorical Humor in Connie Willis’s Short Fiction

Rosalyn Eves

PART VI: Humanist and Posthumanist Witness

Chapter Eleven: Messages in a Bottle: The Historian’s Ethic in Connie Willis’s Quantum Universe

Kathryn N. McDaniel

Chapter Twelve: Schrodinger’s Cathedrals: Humanist Memory and Posthumanist Sacramentality in Connie Willis’s Fiction

Carissa Turner Smith