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This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Mary Robinette Kowal, author of Silent Spaces.
\nAbout Silent Spaces: Silent Spaces: Tales from the Lady Astronauts is a collection of 9 short stories in the Lady Astronaut Series written by Mary Robinette Kowal, including one written just for this collection.
\nWith this campaign the book will be available in print for the first time in English as a Softcover, and a Limited Edition Signed and Numbered Hardcover!
\nAbout Mary Robinette Kowal: Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut duology and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers.
\nShe\u2019s 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\u2019s, several Year\u2019s Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.
\nHer 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.
\nThis week\u2019s picks:
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\n* Mary Robinette: Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
\n* Tracy: Born a Crime, Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
\n* Patrick: Angel’s Horn AT-3600L turntable
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\nLinks:
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\n* Mary Robinette Kowal on Instagram
\n* Tracy Townsend on the network formerly known as Twitter
\n* Patrick Hester on the network formerly known as Twitter
\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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\n\xa9 2024 Patrick Hester