{"id":360,"date":"2025-04-16T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=360"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:57:10","slug":"the-martian-contingency-by-mary-robinette-kowal-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"The Martian Contingency<\/i> by Mary Robinette Kowal (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheI have one friend in particular who tells me about good SF, and I am always laughably behind in picking up new authors to read.\u00a0 The original short story “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” was published in 2012 and the three prior books in the series were published in 2018 and 2020.\u00a0 I read them all in 2024 and this fourth book I read within a month of its release! (I also have read a standalone book not in this series by the author.)<\/p>\n

This series takes place as an alternate history where women were not originally disqualified as astronauts.\u00a0 The alternate timeline extends as the story does, with this book taking place in 1970.\u00a0 I really liked this latest entry and devoured the book in less than two days.\u00a0 I highly recommend it. If you haven’t read the series yet go back and start with the original short story<\/a>, which you can find free at what is now reactormag.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have one friend in particular who tells me about good SF, and I am always laughably behind in picking up new authors to read.\u00a0 The original short story “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” was published in 2012 and the three prior books in the series were published in 2018 and 2020.\u00a0 I read them … Continue reading “The Martian Contingency<\/i> by Mary Robinette Kowal (2025)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}