Word Puppets, Mary Robinette Kowal
Word Puppets, Mary Robinette Kowal
1 Rating(s)
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Word Puppets

Author: Mary Robinette Kowal

Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2021

Synopsis

Celebrated as the author of five acclaimed historical fantasy novels in the Glamourist series, Mary Robinette Kowal is also well known as an award-winning author of short science fiction and fantasy. Her stories encompass a wide range of themes, a covey of indelible characters, and settings that span from Earth's past to its near and far futures as well as even farther futures beyond. Alternative history, fairy tales, adventure, fables, science fiction (both hard and soft), fantasy (both epic and cozy)—nothing is beyond the reach of her unique talent. Word Puppets—the first comprehensive collection of Kowal's extraordinary fiction—includes her two Hugo-winning stories, a Hugo nominee, an original story set in the world of "The Lady Astronaut of Mars," and fourteen other show-stopping tales.

About Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut series, the Glamourist Histories series, and Ghost Talkers. She's a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, and has been a finalist for the Hugo, 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.

As a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), Mary Robinette has performed for LazyTown, 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 Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi.

Mary lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Walrus on 2022-06-07 18:40:13

The stories are wonderful. But what a remarkable narrator! You know how important narration is if you have ever heard a good read spoiled by a bad audio narration. Mary Kowal could make you pay attention to the instructions for a tax form.

Goodreads review by Sunny on January 28, 2024

3.5 because some of the stories weren’t as engrossing for me. So many of them were so excellent and imaginative and tightly rendered though!......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on September 01, 2019

Talk about a fascinating author! Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Hugo-winning novel The Calculating Stars (one of my all-time faves) as well as other works. She's also a highly gifted audiobook narrator (narrating, among other books, the October Daye series and other works by Seanan Mc......more

Goodreads review by Marjolein (UrlPhantomhive) on February 02, 2016

Read all my reviews on [URL not allowed] I've written down my thoughts as I was reading this short story collection. Now that I'm finished I'm looking back at a great collection of short stories. There wasn't really a story I hated, most were good to very good and some really stoo......more

Goodreads review by Trike on February 06, 2017

This is a superb collection. According to publishers and authors, I am that rarest breed of readers, the kind who buys short story collections. I loves me some short story action. Even though many of these stories are available for free at Kowal's website ([URL not allowed]) a......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on January 16, 2016

Received to review via Netgalley Word Puppets is a collection of short stories written by Mary Robinette Kowal, arranged — if we can trust the alleged Patrick Rothfuss’ introduction — in the order they were written. I always think that’s a fascinating way to read an author’s work, because you get to......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List