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science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, superhero, utopian and dystopian, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic and alternate history fiction in literature.
The Calculating Stars 2018 Best Novel winner of a Nebula, Hugo and Locus (best Best Science Fiction Novel)
The Lady Astronaut of Mars 2014 Winner, Hugo Award for Best Novelette. The Relentless Moon nominated for the 2021 Hugo Awards for Best Novel. The Martian Contingency
1950's USA with the same technology, social mores and prejudices as real world 1950's
Shortly after President Thomas Dewey leads the United States to victory in the space race in 1952, a meteorite strikes Chesapeake Bay, obliterating most of the Eastern Seaboard. In the aftermath, mathematician and former WASP pilot Elma York calculates that the resulting climate change will make the planet uninhabitable within 50 years. This threat accelerates efforts to colonize space and leads to Elma joining the International Aerospace Coalition in its attempt to reach, first the Moon, then Mars.
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. Read More...
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Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Harrison was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended William G. Enloe High School, and studied at East Carolina University. She graduated with a degree in Art Education with a minor in theater, and began work as a professional puppeteer in 1989.
She has performed for the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Productions, and her own production company, Other Hand Productions. She also worked in Iceland on the children's television show LazyTown for two seasons. She was recently accepted as a participant in a Sesame Puppetry Workshop.
Mary Robinette Kowal was the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo nominee for her story “Evil Robot Monkey.” Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year's Best anthologies. She is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010), the fantasy novel that Jane Austen might have written. Read More...
Martha Wells
Multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus award winning author Martha Wells is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has published a number of fantasy novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on fantasy and science fiction subjects. Her novels have been translated into twelve languages.
Of the seven books in the Murderbot series, three of them have won Hugos with the overall series winning the 2021 Hugo. Her other series, Ile-Rien is a Sword and Sorcery fantasy and The Books of the Raksura is a Science Fiction Colonization that includes shapechangers. Read More...
Science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen—though often you only wish that it could.
–Arthur C. Clarke , The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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