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[ID: Martha Wells reading from a book, with robots - mechanical contraptions slightly smaller than most cats, with huge treads - surrounding her, positioned to look like they’re listening attentively. Text reads “Martha Wells reading to the search and rescue robots at the TEES (Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Station) Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR).”]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate this photo from Martha Wells’s website (Your picture was not posted)

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mrkinch:

mrkinch:

Whoever rec’d me Martha Well’s Wheel of the Infinite: I think I know who but prefer not to look like an idiot, so please remind me? It was great! Thank you!

ETA: I checked my messages (I have so few, I forget!) and it was in fact @bomberqueen17, so thank you! More recs perhaps?

 I am not in fact very widely read, of late, beyond Martha Wells, but I do recommend her entire back catalogue. I am so glad you enjoyed it! She is active on Tumblr and Livejournal, by the way– @marthawells, on here. Marvellously fannish, and continuously active! 

[Aside note, since reblogs are the way to do this: to anyone else reading this conversation, remember that post that kept going by with people saying “why don’t more prophecies involve grannies?” and I thought, you know, Wheel of the Infinite features a Chosen One who is a woman old enough to have an adult son, though if he has his own children they’re not mentioned in the book, and is an excellent example both of yes, how great that is as a trope subversion, and alas, how commercially unsuccessful. Yes, authors should write more books about older women fulfilling prophecies instead of pimply insecure teens, but nobody buys them, that’s the sad truth. So go buy this one, which is now an ebook to which I don’t have the link but surely Google does.]