Connie Willis was Author Guest of Honor at LACON IV, this year's Worldcon held in Anaheim, CA. Her GOH speech was such a hit that we asked her if we could reprint it here for anyone who missed it the first time around. (Note: Connie gave it to us in "the format I usually use for my speeches, which is a little different from my stories." and we've tried to preserve that here. Really.)

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