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Mary Robinette Kowal

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Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut Universe 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 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.

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Series

Glamourist Histories


A Fantasy series (2010 - 2015)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Regency romance shaped by magical etiquette
  • Married protagonists outwitting danger together
  • Drawing room drama under national unrest

Lady Astronaut


A Science Fiction series (2014 - 2025)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Alternate-history space race after a world-shifting meteor strike
  • Women clawing their way into astronaut roles
  • High-stakes missions driven by math, engineering, and survival

Standalone Fiction

First Flight

For Want of a Nail

Word Puppets

Word Puppets

Short story collection

Forest of Memory

The Escapement of Blackledge

Ghost Talkers

The Original

Molly on the Moon

The Spare Man

In the Moon's House

Little Stacks of Science Fiction

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