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Supplemental material for Writing Excuses — A Fire in the Heavens

NOTE: This is a post revived from the archives. This material was previously available prior to the page becoming unavailable — but now it’s back! You can read the novelette, A Fire in the Heavens, here. For Writing Excuses, we are demonstrating our process by actually working through some stories from brainstorming, through outlining, to the story

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Physics World Reviews “A Little Wisdom”

“My favourite story in the collection though is undoubtedly Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Little Wisdom”, a lovely and sweet story that highlights the many ways in which AI could truly benefit humankind, while also realistically pointing out some potential issues. The slice-of-life story follows an elderly art historian and her robot support dog (she suffers

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My Favorite Bit: Mary Robinette Kowal and Alyshondra Meacham talk about THE FATED SKY

Yay! New book! The Fated Sky released today and while normally on My Favorite Bit, we have the author talk, I decided to invite my assistant and first reader, Alyshondra, to talk about her favorite bit. My thinking is that it will give you a little bit of an insight into how a first reader

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Tor.com – Five Really Cool Things I Learned at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab

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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Paired covers for The Calculating Stars, showing a group of women on a blue field, and The Fated Sky, which has a lone astronaut against a red sky.

THE CALCULATING STARS and THE FATED SKY available for pre-order!

The Lady Astronaut books are now available for pre-order! The Calculating Stars The Fated Sky If you pre-order through these links, which will take you to Mary’s favorite local bookstore, a SIGNED and personalized copy will arrive at your house on release day! These books are prequels to Mary’s Hugo-award winning story The Lady Astronaut

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The London Branch

Thank heavens — you received my postcard. I was worried that it would fall into the wrong hands. I thought you were clever, though, and I was right. Here — I have a secret for you. It’s a scene that got deleted from Ghost Talkers.  Be careful and watch the auras around you. I’m sure there’s

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