Bellwether

Name: Bellwether
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Connie Willis
ISBN: 9781433246289

Author: Connie Willis

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 02/05/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Pop culture, chaos theory, and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of Doomsday Book. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkeygroup behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questionswith the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.

About Connie Willis

Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for her fiction; Blackout and All Clear-a novel in two parts, and Doomsday Book won both. Her other works include Crosstalk, Passage, Lincoln's Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Remake, Uncharted Territory, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Fire Watch, The Best of Connie Willis, and A Lot Like Christmas. Willis lives with her family in Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on December 16, 2018

Bellwether is one of Connie Willis' non-SF satirical (even farcical at times) comedies. It took me a couple of reads, about 10 years apart, to really appreciate it. Here’s my evolving take on this unique novel: The bellwether sheep, who leads the flock Bellwether Read #1, sometime around 2005: 3 sta......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

Baaaaaaaa! I'm caught in a horrible quandary. On the one hand, this is a purely wonderful and madcap whirlwind of farcical trendsetting, and I mean that most literally, in that it's ABOUT the madcap whirlwind of farcical trendsetting, and yet for all its humor, its chaos, its insight into human and a......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Cat on September 17, 2024

A 50s style romantic comedy? A science fiction romantic comedy? A fantasy realist romantic comedy? Yes. Bellwether is frustrating in the best way something can be frustrating. It tangles you in the knots (fairy-knots?) of its endless digressions while cleverly building up a design that is both insightfu......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on June 08, 2020

This is a romantic comedy with a big idea, which makes it still a SF work in my view, even without overtly SF elements. It was published in 1996 and was Nebula and Locus award nominee. I read is as a part of monthly reading for June 2020 at Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels group. The title, Bellwet......more

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on September 01, 2016

*2.5 stars* Underwhelming from Connie Willis, one of my long-time favorite authors. This book is less sci-fi (in fact, I didn't even shelve it as such), and more realistic fiction or speculative fiction, or even romantic comedy. It's really hard to describe this book. It is sort of a rambling narrati......more