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 Universe, The Spare Man, and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers. She’s a member of the award-winning 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 The Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year. Additionally, she us a USA TODAY bestselling author.

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.

As an audiobook narrator, she records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi.

Mary Robinette lives in Denver with her husband Robert, their dog Guppy, their “talking” cat Elsie, and a dozen manual typewriters.

Events

Elevengeddon Meet and Greet at Poisoned Pen

Join Mary Robinette Kowal, James Rollins, Jonathan Maberry, Maxym M. Martineau, Clint Hall, Michael A. Stackpole, and Ryan Dalton at an informal meet and greet at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ on June 5 at 7:00 PM MST. Learn more here. To help keep this program free, the bookstore asks that you consider […]

5 Jun

Phoenix Fan Fusion

Mary Robinette Kowal will be a guest at Phoenix Fan Fusion, June 6-8 in Phoenix, AZ. Here’s her schedule: Friday, June 6 PANEL: Keeping the Science in Science Fiction (3 PM MST) How does getting the science right affect a story’s premise? When should science bend to accommodate the story? Sci-fi authors discuss where science […]

6 Jun

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