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Fire Watch

First edition (publ. Bluejay Books) Cover art by Thomas Kidd
Author	Connie Willis
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Bluejay Books
Publication date	February 1, 1984

Fire Watch is a book of short stories by Connie Willis, first published in 1984, that touches on time travel, nuclear war, the end of the world, and cornball humour.

The title story, "Fire Watch", is about a time-travelling historian who goes back to the Blitz in London. He's miffed because he spent years preparing to travel with St. Paul and gets sent to St. Paul's Cathedral in London, instead. This model of time travel also features in Willis's subsequent novels Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog and Blackout/All Clear, set in the same continuity.

• "Fire Watch"
• "Service for the Burial of the Dead"
• "Lost and Found"
• "All My Darling Daughters"
• "The Father of the Bride"
• "A Letter from the Clearys"
• "The Sidon in the Mirror"
• "And Come from Miles Around"
• "Daisy, in the Sun"
• "Mail Order Clone"
• "Samaritan"
• "Blued Moon"

This was Connie Willis's first collection.

David Pringle rated Fire Watch three stars out of four and described Willis as a "talented new writer".^[1]

• A review

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