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Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennet O'Reilly works with monkey group 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 questions.

"Willis has written a story that is witty, thought-provoking, and a little too close to the bone to be considered a fantasy. Readers will chuckle knowingly over the picture of trendiness gone mad. At the same time they will find themselves learning quite a bit about chaos theory and scurrying to the encyclopedias to research the scientists whose discoverers are scattered throughout the text."

Kathleen Beck, Voya, August 1996

The clever pen of Connie Willis is put to scathingly funny effect in `Bellwether', a new short novel published in trade format. In a future society that seems all too like today, a researcher trying to determine the cause of fads runs into a brick wall until she joins forces with a chaos theorist trying to get funding for his own project. The answer lies right under their noses, but will the scientific method bring it to light? Wickedly skewering everything in sight, Ms. Willis gives us many an amusing moment as she makes us wonder if there just might be something to her theory after all.

Romantic Times, June/1996

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