How the spouse is dealt with didn't work at all and Tesla is always looking to him for validation. Tesla has a service dog that is not actually used correctly to do its job but always seems to be off-duty to be petted. Ditto for the romance elements when there is a murder investigation going on. I got tired of all of the focus on drinking. The police force on board is so stupid that they all came across as villainous caricatures and botch everything to further the plot. Her PTSD and pain seem to fluctuate in direct relation to what is needed in the storyline and her internal computer is real convenient. Tesla wants to care about the poor but once her secret identity is blown she throws her name, money, and attitude around like crazy. Sadly, I think what the author was going for fell spectacularly flat. And I absolutely loved the author's notes behind the novel. I enjoyed how the future dealt with gender and identity. I liked the concept of Tesla dealing with her lawyer in space and having to account for the time lag. I liked that Tesla's spouse, the detective, is a suspect and is locked up leaving her to solve the crime and save him. I loved that there was an extra dead body but everyone is supposedly accounted for.
I enjoyed the setting of a luxury cruise liner in space. The longer version is that the individual elements didn't work when mixed together.įor example, I liked that the main character, Tesla, suffers from both chronic pain and PTSD. The short version is that privilege and money solve everything in the novel. Mary Robinette lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters.Īhoy there me mateys! I love this author's work and yet this was a complete miss for me. She records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. Her novel Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year.Īs 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. 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. She’s a member of the award-winning 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. Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut Universe and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers.
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