The Martian Contingency

(Tor Books March 18th, 2025) Mary Robinette Kowal returns to Mars in this latest entry to the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Lady Astronaut series. “Kowal masters both science and historical accuracy in this alternate history adventure.”—Andy Weir, author of The Martian, on The Calculating Stars Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.—triggering an extinction-level global warming […]

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About Mary Robinette Kowal

Author, Puppeteer, Narrator

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut duology and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers.

She’s a member of the awardwinning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, several Year’s Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.

Her novel Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year. As a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), Mary Robinette has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures, and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. She records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi.

Mary Robinette lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters.

Events

TBR Con 2025 Virtual Panelist

  Mary Robinette will be at TBR Con 2025, a virtual and free event hosted by FanFiAddict.  Panel: Is Science Catching Up to What Was Once Sci-fi? Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 at 11AM -12:30PM EST (10AM-11:30AM CST, 9AM-10:30 MST, 8AM-9:30AM PST) The moderator for the panel is Neil Williams. Joining me on the panel are Malka Older, Wick […]

22 Jan

Atlanta Writers Club

  Mary Robinette will be speaking at the Atlanta Writers Club on March 15th in Atlanta GA. The talk will be an hour long followed by a Q&A and a book signing. To learn more visit their website.    

15 Mar

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