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The spare man

"Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetar...

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Main Author: Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Tor, 2022.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Honeymoons > Fiction.
Rich people > Fiction.
Interplanetary voyages > Fiction.
Husbands > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Science fiction.
Summary: "Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim"--
Item Description: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Physical Description: 357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781250829153
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Author Notes: Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning alternate history novel, The Calculating Stars , the first book in the Lady Astronaut series, which continues with The Martian Contingency . She is also the author of The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo Awards, the Nebula, and Locus Awards. Her stories appear in Asimov's , Uncanny , and several Year's Best anthologies. Mary Robinette has also worked as a professional puppeteer, is a member of the Award-winning podcast Writing Excuses , and performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and Neal Stephenson. She lives in Tennessee with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters.

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