The Martian Contingency
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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 other panel members have yet to be announced but check back here for […]
COSine 2025 as a Panelist
Mary Robinette will be a panelist at COSine 2025 in Colorado Springs, CO from January 24th-26th. You can register to attend the con and find out more details here. Schedule Friday 5-6pm: Main Events Being Cruel to Your Characters You love your characters and want them to live their best lives. But there isn’t a […]
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