The Fated Sky comes out in T-20 days! Preorder it here, and be with us on liftoff! Here’s where you can find Mary this August. August 1 Firefly Fiber Arts Summer Book Event – Chicago, Illinois August 7 Online Patreon Writing Date August 9-11 #NASASocial: Parker Solar Probe Launch – Cape Canaveral, Florida August 12 […]
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Jason Denzel is joining us today to talk about his novel Mystic Dragon. Here’s the publisher’s description: Seven years have passed since lowborn Pomella AnDone became an unlikely Mystic’s apprentice. Though she has achieved much in a short time, as a rare celestial event approaches, Pomella feels the burden of being a Mystic more than ever.
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With the challenges surrounding WorldCon 2018’s programming, I offered to bring in a small team to help reimagine the schedule. That team was chosen to address a range of identities, marginalizations, and key stakeholders. Together, we’ve spent the past 48 hours diving into this huge, complicated beast. One note we would like to add here
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Jay Schiffman is joining us today to talk about his debut novel Game of the Gods. Here’s the publisher’s description: Max Cone wants to be an ordinary citizen of the Federacy and leave war and politics behind. He wants the leaders of the world to leave him alone. But he’s too good a military commander, and
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Wendy Nikel is joining us today to talk about her novel The Grandmother Paradox. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Dr. Wells, the head of the Place in Time Travel Agency, learns that someone’s trying to track down the ancestors of his star employee, there are few people he can turn to without revealing her secrets. But
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A friend of mine was listening to the audiobook of Calculating Stars and said that usually when he listens to audiobooks narrated by friends, he’s like, “Oh good, my friend is going to tell me a story.” Listening to Calculating Stars, he said, “There’s this other woman, Elma, and I’m totally invested in her and there was nothing of
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TJ Berry is joining us today with her book Space Unicorn Blues. Here’s the publisher’s description: A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut. Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery,
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Theodora Goss is joining us today with her novel European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature’s mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl
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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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Lauren James is joining us today to discuss her novel The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. Here’s the publisher’s description: The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space. But she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents’ tragic deaths left her alone on theInfinity, a spaceship speeding
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by Mary Robinette Kowal HUMANITY’S SUCCESS ON MARS BRADBURY BASE, Sep 19, 1973 — WITH fireworks and music, with games and speeches, the success of humanity’s settlement on Mars is scheduled to be celebrated at Bradbury Base tonight. Bradbury Base, which was established in 1953 with an initial population of four, is now a thriving
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I’m joining you today to talk about my novel The Calculating Stars. Here’s the publisher’s description: On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the
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This is Mary, holding a d20 that has FLOWN IN SPACE, given to her by Kjell Lindgren, astronaut. T-6 hours until The Calculating Stars launches! Will you be with us on liftoff? Here’s the link to Mary’s local bookshop, and the Universal Book Link. Did you know there is YARN based on Mary’s books? Firefly Fibers
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[tminus t=”3-7-2018 00:00:00″ omitweeks=”true” id=”calculating-stars”/] While you wait, don’t forget that you can join the Lady Astronaut Club.
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Rebecca Roanhorse is joining us today to talk about her novel Trail of Lightning. Here’s the publisher’s description: While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie
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