Earlier this year, I had a lovely time at the 2025 Gaithersburg Book Festival. The entirety of my talk (mostly on The Martian Contingency, sci-fi, and storytelling) and conversation with Mariko Hewer, was filmed and is now available for you to watch. You may watch the entire recording for free here.
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Once a quarter Mary Robinette hosts a Book Club for her Patreon members and brings in the author of the book or short story we read together to chat with. She’s delighted that she got to bring in Liza Palmer e to talk about her book “Family Reservations”. Below you’ll find the first 27 minutes
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Once a quarter Mary Robinette hosts a Book Club for her Patreon members and brings in the author of the book or short story we read together to chat with. She’s delighted that she got to bring in Alexis Devine to talk about her book “I Am Bunny” and her journey of learning a shared
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Once a quarter I have a book club for my Patreon members. This quarter we read “Starter Villain” by John Scalzi. My cat, Elsie, was one of the inspirations for the cats in the book so Elsie joined us for the interview (and mostly just took advantage of me being occupied by a screen and
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Last week I sat down with Fonda Lee for my Patreon Book Club and talked all about Untethered Sky, Fonda’s latest novella. We had an amazing time talking about Falconry, Rocs, and other underused creatures from Mythology. For the Patreon members, we chatted for an hour, giving them a chance to chime in with their
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Once a quarter I host a Book Club for my Patreon members and I bring in the author of the book or short story we read together to chat with. I’m delighted that I got to bring in my good friend, Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher), for this month’s book club. I’m posting a fifteen-minute
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To settle on Mars, one of the big needs for effective space colonization will for HVAC. In this episode of interviewing experts, I talk to Kipp Bradford about how to creating and break HVAC on Mars. Over the past decade, Kipp has distinguished himself as a prolific high-tech innovator. With a penchant for creating new
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I talked to Dr. Thomas Wagner, who works for NASA, as part of my research for a new science fiction novel set on Mars. The fourth Lady Astronaut novel, The Martian Contingency, takes place on Mars about ten seconds after the end of Fated Sky. Of course something goes wrong, because it’s a novel, and
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Tobias Buckell is joining us with It’s All Just a Draft, a curated collection of essays. Here’s the publisher’s description: How much does the average author make? How long should my book be? Should I outline my book? New York Times Bestselling author and World Fantasy Award winner Tobias Buckell started blogging about his path to
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Tim Pratt is joining us today to talk about his novel The Forbidden Stars, the conclusion of this Axiom trilogy. Here’s the publisher’s description: The ancient alien gods are waking up, and there’s only one spaceship crew ready to stop them, in this dazzling space opera sequel to The Wrong Stars and The Dreaming Stars. Aliens known as
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You might have missed this post on Tor.com about my research trip to NASA. Come check it out (there is much squeeing)! Here’s a teaser: It’s like this… An astronaut asks if you want to spend the day at work with him. You say, “Yes.” More specifically, it was like this. Kjell Lindgren, a NASA
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I have a post at the Tor/Forge site today about The Calculating Stars and Hidden Figures and internalized bias, go check it out! Here’s a teaser: As mainstream culture becomes increasingly vocal about the politics of gender, it makes me aware of all of the damaging narrative that I’ve internalized and which
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I’ll mention that at about the one minute mark, my laughter is a little maniacal. I think my mask slipped. Early in November, at the World Fantasy Convention, I interviewed a few authors. Below is my interview with Mary Robinette Kowal, my final one from that weekend. Mary spoke of everything from modeling naked, to
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Waylines is a new online magazine with fiction, reviews, and interviews. I stopped by to answer some questions for them. Our featured author for issue 3 is Mary Robinette Kowal, a Campbell and Hugo award winning author, who has just released the third book in her Glamourist History series, Without a Summer. When she’s not
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On Friday April 5th, Free Book Friday will give away five signed copies of Without a Summer. That’s tomorrow. You have until midnight Eastern, to enter. They also have an interview with me with questions such as… 1) When you got that first phone call announcing you had sold a novel, how did you react? How did
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