Description
Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars"
About the Author
Mary Robinette Kowal is the 2008 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, a multiple Hugo winner, and a frequent finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards. A professional puppeteer and voice actor, she spent five years touring nationally with puppet theatres. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and nine manual typewriters.
Awards
Winner of Hugo Award (Novel) 2019.
Book Information
ISBN 9780765378385
Author Mary Robinette Kowal
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Tor Books
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 368g
Dimensions(mm) 209mm * 136mm * 30mm
Reviews
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The author can't seem to decide what the main premise is.
I have to admit I struggled to keep up my interest while reading this. It's a good book, and nicely written, but for me, it just divided my attention too much. I love the idea of the main premise, I thought it held so much potential, but the further I read the more it felt like that main story took a back seat. An overpowering amount of social commentary gradually overshadows the driving events. There's nothing wrong with anything in this book, it just feels like it should have been two separate novels. To my mind, the end of the world should have held more importance, but that initial storyline becomes more of a back story to sexism and male versus female hierarchies. Of course, those are important issues in their own right and should command the main focus, which baffles me even more as to why the author would confuse readers with just what this book is supposed to be about. A story about Armageddon surely should be fast-paced and terrifying, while a story about women's struggles against a male-chauvinist world should be meandering and thought-provoking. Trying to do both of those things at the same time is never going to work, at least in my opinion.
