Word Puppets

Celebrated as the author of the five acclaimed historical fantasy novels of 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 covey of indelible characters, and settings that span from Earth’s past to its near and far futures as well as even farther futures beyond. Alternative history, fairy tales, adventure, fables, science fiction (both hard and soft), fantasy (both epic and cozy)—nothing is beyond the reach of her unique talent. WORD PUPPETS—the first comprehensive collection of Kowal’s extraordinary fiction—includes her two Hugo-winning stories, a Hugo nominee, an original story set in the world of “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” and fourteen other show-stopping tales.

Table of Contents

* "The Bound Man"

* "Chrysalis"

* "Rampion"

* "At the Edge of Dying"

* "Clockwork Chickadee"

* "Body Language"

* "Waiting for Rain"

* "First Flight"

* "Evil Robot Monkey"

* "The Consciousness Problem"

* "For Solo Cello, op. 12"

* "For Want of a Nail"

* "The Shocking Affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland"

* "Salt of the Earth"

* "American Changeling"

* "The White Phoenix Feather"

* "We Interrupt This Broadcast"

* "Rockets Red" (A brand new story in the Lady Astronaut universe)

* "The Lady Astronaut of Mars"