Let's make this birthday one to remember.

79 years old (Born on December 31, 1945)

Happy Birthday, Connie Willis! May your celebrations be timeless—though hopefully without any unintended side trips to the Middle Ages or Victorian England. Your brilliant storytelling has taken us through history and back again, earning you well-deserved Hugo Awards for masterpieces like "Blackout/All Clear," "Doomsday Book," and of course, everyone's favorite comedic romp with cats (and dogs), "To Say Nothing of the Dog."

Here's wishing that this year brings fewer paradoxes but plenty more laughter-filled adventures. Thank you for making time travel seem both thrillingly possible and hilariously complicated—we wouldn't have it any other way! Have a fantastic birthday filled with joy—and absolutely no temporal anomalies.