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Author Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, admits that she was first drawn to the concept of time travel out of a desire to go back and fix her own mistakes. Now she loves using it to allow her characters to experience history. She reads from her novel, Blackout, in which she sends time travelers back to World War II.

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