Mary Robinette Kowal

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2009
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Glamourist Histories

1 - Shades of Milk and Honey (Aug-2010)
2 - Glamour in Glass (Apr-2012)
3 - Without a Summer (Apr-2013)

Lady Astronaut

0.5 - The Lady Astronaut of Mars (May-2014)
1 - The Calculating Stars (Jul-2018)
2 - The Fated Sky (Aug-2018)
3 - The Relentless Moon (Jul-2020)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Scenting the Dark

    These things await you: Love and hope in the aftermath of a very personal environmental apocalypse. Fear that comes in being trapped in your own body, enslaved by your own faulty synapses. Dread in a cure that works in unexpected ways. Discovery of w...

  • First Flight

    The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award. The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is...

  • Shades of Milk and Honey

    Glamourist Histories - 1

    The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer: Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate ...

  • The Hugo Award Showcase

    Each year, members of the World Science Fiction Convention vote for the science fiction and fantasy works they love the most: the Hugo Awards. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, you can find these treasured gems within a single volume. Th...

  • The Hugo Award Showcase, 2010 Volume

    Each year, members of the World Science Fiction Convention vote for the science fiction and fantasy works they love the most: the Hugo Awards. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, you can find these treasured gems within a single volume. Th...

  • For Want of a Nail

    "For Want of a Nail" is the 2011 Hugo-nominated story by award-winning author, Mary Robinette Kowal. This science-fiction short story explores the complex choices that an AI and her wrangler must make to solve a seemingly simple technical problem.Als...

  • Glamour in Glass

    Glamourist Histories - 2

    Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented...

  • Without a Summer

    Glamourist Histories - 3

    Up-and-coming fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal enchanted fans with award-winning short stories and beloved novels featuring Regency pair Jane and Vincent Ellsworth. In Without a Summer the master glamourists return home, but in a world where magic is r...

  • Valour and Vanity

    Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic -- known here as glamour -- is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the ...



  • The Lady Astronaut of Mars

    Lady Astronaut - 0.5

    Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronau...

  • Of Noble Family

    Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overw...

  • The Bound Man

    The Bound Man by Mary Robinette Kowal Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publ...

  • Word Puppets

    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 co...

  • The Escapement of Blackledge

    When the Duke of Blackledge comes of age, there must be a party even if he is a reclusive inventor of automatons. No one expected that the most appealing young lady would be a thief who was about to steal more than his heart.For fans of the Glamouris...

  • Forest of Memory

    Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people’s lives have value, after all. But when he...

  • Skilled Artifice

    Weddings, baptisms, and a birth make up a recipe for drama in the second installment of Whitehall, an episodic royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue, new from Serial Box Publishing. Weddings and births are usually causes for celebrati...

  • Divine Passion

    A queen makes another kind of debut in the sixth installment of Whitehall, an episodic royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue, new from Serial Box Publishing. When it comes to the theater, sometimes the audience holds more drama than t...

  • Ghost Talkers

    Ghost Talkers: a new novel from beloved fantasy author Mary Robinette Kowal featuring the mysterious spirit corps and their heroic work in World War I. Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Capta...

  • A Fire in the Heavens

    On a tidally locked world, Katin is aboard a ship fleeing from religious persecution in her homeland. Her people worship the seven-sisters, a group of dieties that resides in the night sky and are visible as a tight cluster of stars. This explora...



  • The Calculating Stars

    Lady Astronaut - 1

    On a cold spring night in 1952, a meteorite falls to earth and destroys much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, including Washington D.C. The Meteor, as it is popularly known, decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate c...

  • The Fated Sky

    Lady Astronaut - 2

    Mary Robinette Kowal continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually ...

  • Articulated Restraint

    Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And sometimes, handling a test run that has turned deadly serious. Mary Robinette Kowal visits an off-stage incident in her The Calculating Stars series in thi...

  • The Relentless Moon

    Lady Astronaut - 3

    Mary Robinette Kowal continues her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Lady Astronaut series, following The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon. The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor str...

  • The Long List Anthology Volume 6

    This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballo...

  • The Spare Man

    Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man.A 2023 Hugo Award Finalist!A 2022 Locus Magazine...

  • Molly on the Moon

    Award-winning science fiction author Mary Robinette Kowal consulted with a NASA astronaut to craft her first picture book story, accurately describing how living on the moon differs from life on Earth. Beautifully illustrated by Diana Mayo, Molly on ...

  • Life Beyond Us

    How would first contact--on earth, in space, on another planet--transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecogni...

  • The Martian Contingency

    The fourth and final title in Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series!“Kowal masters both science and historical accuracy in this alternate history adventure.” -- Andy Weir, author of The Martian, on The Calculating StarsYears after a mete...

  • The Long List Anthology Volume 4

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    This is the fourth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ball...



Award-Winning Books by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Calculating Stars
2018 Nebula Award -- Novel
2019 Hugo Award -- Novel
2019 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Without a Summer
2013 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Robinette Kowal has published 29 books.

The next book by Mary Robinette Kowal, The Martian Contingency, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Mary Robinette Kowal, Scenting the Dark, was published in December 2009.

Yes. Mary Robinette Kowal has 2 series.
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