The Road to Roswell

 
　　不相信外星生物存在的她，竟在一場婚禮上被外星人綁架！
 
　　Francie跑到羅斯威爾來當大學室友的伴娘，由於準新郎是幽浮迷，這場婚禮也以外星人為主題。她被夾在熱烈討論外星生物的賓客中，白眼實在翻到不能再翻了，這一肚子鳥氣還不是都為了證明新娘這個人生大事之錯誤。Francie是個無外星生物論者，認為那一切都是無稽之談。然而有一種巧合叫做莫非定律，越不相信，越容易遇見。是的，Francie被外星人綁架了，呃⋯⋯而且還是叢長得像風滾草，有一堆觸手的外星人。
 
　　遭到綁架的不只Francie一個人，還包括一位非常有魅力的騙子－Wade、穿梭各賭場吃免費自助餐的老太太、開著露營車的西部片影迷，以及羅斯威爾的特產—外星生物狂粉一名。隨著和外星人相處的時間變長，Francie也漸漸感受到「它」似乎沒有惡意，甚至需要地球人的援助… (文／博客來外文館)

＂When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding-complete with a true-believer bridegroom-she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one＂--]cProvided by publisher.

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, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Terra Incognita, The Best of Connie Willis, and A Lot Like Christmas. Connie Willis lives with her family, a bulldog, and a cat in Colorado. She has visited Roswell a number of times and never seen a single alien, except on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, magnets, and cookie jars. Connie is currently working on a new Oxford historians time travel novel set at Tintern Abbey, Westminster Bridge, and Oxford.