Mary Robinette Kowal, Author . Subterranean $25 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59606-267-2
Campbell Award–winner Kowal presents a broad spectrum of stories in her chapbook-slim first collection. The heartbreaking “Just Right,” in which a family struggles with a child's strange behavior, isn't speculative at all.
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Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2556-3
In Kowal's quasi-Regency fantasy debut, plain Miss Jane Ellsworth envies her sister's looks, while flighty Melody envies Jane's talent with magical glamour. Rude, mysterious Mr. Vincent, a brilliant glamour artist hired to create living murals in a...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2557-0
A honeymoon trip to the Continent threatens Jane and David Vincent’s relationship—and their lives—in the somewhat uneven sequel to Shades of Milk and Honey, set in a magic-tinged Regency era. The newlyweds travel to Belgium to compare techniques of...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3415-2
In Kowal’s charming third Austen-influenced magical Regency novel (after Glamour in Glass), spouses Lady Jane and Sir David Vincent, who create magical artwork called “glamour,” accept a commission in London that leads to political turmoil and...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3416-9
The espionage potential of magical illusions sets the stage for Kowal’s fourth alternate-Regency caper (after Without a Summer). Lady Jane and Sir David Vincent, both accomplished at the art of spinning strands of magic into the sounds and images...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $26.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7836-1
Kowal’s tense conclusion to her highly praised Glamourist Histories magical Regency series (following Valour and Vanity) sees happily married Sir David and Lady Jane Vincent caught up in the intrigues of Sir David’s manipulative family. When they...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Prime (prime-books.com), $15.95 ISBN 978-1-60701-456-0
Kowal’s short works are difficult to classify, often poignant or tragic, and always spectacularly written. These 19 tales vary widely. “The Bound Man” spans ages within a dramatic alternate world; “Chrysalis” examines a single segment of an alien...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor.com, $9.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8791-2
In this brief but captivating epistolary story, set in a future Pacific Northwest where technology records all events and has rendered both natural memory and storytelling superfluous, Kowal (Word Puppets) evokes a world of interconnectedness. In a...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7825-5
In this entrancing alternate history, Kowal (the Glamourist Histories series) introduces the Spirit Corps, a group that communicates with recently killed soldiers to gather important wartime information. It’s the summer of 1916, and American medium...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $15.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7838-5
Kowal’s outstanding prequel to her Hugo-winning novelette “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” shows the alternate history that created a mid-20th-century Mars colony. In 1952, mathematician and pilot Elma York is on vacation with her rocket scientist...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9894-9
Kowal continues her exquisite exploration of race and gender relations in an alternate 1961 that is still shockingly close to our own. The stunning second part of Kowal’s duology picks up 10 years after a meteor strikes Earth (depicted in The...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $30.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-250-23695-1
Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Kowal expands her Lady Astronaut alternate history series with this stellar third installment, set in the 1960s, a decade after the devastating meteor strike that led to the creation of the International Aerospace...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $19.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-82917-7
An engineering magnate gets swept into a murder investigation in this vibrant space mystery from Kowal (the Lady Astronaut series). Communications scion Tesla Crane and her new husband, retired detective Shal Steward, take their honeymoon on a...
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Mary Robinette Kowal. Tor, $18.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-23705-7
The tense fourth alternate history in Kowal’s Hugo Award–winning Lady Astronaut series (after The Relentless Moon) traces the dicey late 1960s Second Expedition to establish a human settlement on Mars. After 26 million people were killed by a 1952...
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Mary Robinette Kowal, illus. by Diana Mayo. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-25961-5
Molly, her mother, and baby brother Luke have moved to the moon. But following the rocket-ship ride, their underground moon module is no speculative paradise: each child could bring only one toy—a stuffed lamb for Molly, blocks for Luke—and while...
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Edited by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law, and Susan Forest. Laksa, $35 (582p) ISBN 978-1-988140-47-6
The European Astrobiology Institute follows up its 2020 Strangest of All anthology with a gratifyingly diverse selection of 27 stories of alien life, each paired with an essay that evaluates, contextualizes, or responds to the scientific ideas...
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