48 Comments on “Things We’ve Learned About Mary Robinette Kowal Today”

1. Time Traveler…or Secret Immortal.

2. I vote Highlander.

3. Uncanny

4. Could be! Makes you believe in reincarnation.

5. Wait a minute- isn’t she you? Just how many people is she?

6. @Pam, I think MRK is only Scalzi on occasion. Presumably she’s Jane Austen more of the time.

7. That is freakishly similar.

8. I hear the Weeping Angels got her. DON’T BLINK, MRK!

9. Ms Austen’s forensic representation is exactly how she’s always looked in my head. Neat.

10. .
    I, for one, welcome our new Mary Robinette Kowal overlords. Um, maybe Overladies?

11. Time Lady.

12. Sounds the beginnings of promising cosplay.

13. Good Lord. When I saw the top picture, at first I thought it was MRK dressed up as Jane Austen.

14. So… She, Keaneu, and Nicholas Cage are all immortals?

15. That’s amazing! Or, rather, she is amazing :).

16. Excuse me while I pick my jaw up from the floor.

17. I vote Highlander.

    Why, that’s just silly! She’s obviously some sort of daywalking vampire.

18. No, wait. I thought she was Pat Rothfuss.

19. Does she sparkle in the sun?

20. I clicked the link expecting one of those “squint-and-you’ll-see-it-if-you-wish-really-hard” things, but wow! That likeness is eerie! Are we sure the researchers didn’t just give up, copy her face, and call it a day?

21. I think whoever did the reconstruction of Austen just got stuck and said, “Fuck it. Mary Robinette Kowal writes Austen-eque novels; let’s make Austen look Kowal-esque..”

22. Interesting. I just read the somewhat more detailed account in The Guardian. The artist seems to have taken Cassandra Austen’s portrait, eyewitness accounts, and pictures of Austen’s collateral descendents to produce this waxwork. It is, in short, as good a guess as to her appearance as we are likely to get– short of digging up Austen’s skeleton in Winchester Cathedral and giving her skull the same treatment that Richard III’s remains recently received.

    That would be pretty ghoulish, though. And probably futile– there likely IS no skeleton there, since MRK and Jane Austen are one and the same person.

23. Nanomachines.

    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/99/99816507ac383fc9e953fe6c16d6de629b0c2d223166193cb3b7e68e7ffa900d.jpg

24. Huh. And I’m sure it’s *TOTALLY* a coincidence that she puts a Doctor Who “easter egg” in all her novels.

25. It’s all just a coincidence. And my father totally does not own a DeLorean.

26. MRK (or should I say Jane?), your denials are suspiciously vehement and specific.

27. Does this mean we can start bugging her to finish Sanditon?

28. Wow. I…am duly impressed.

    And this reminds me that I NEED “Shadows Beneath” worse than a heroin junkie needs a hit in mid-withdrawal.

    ‘Scuse me while I run and get my wallet and get on Amazon.

29. I’m voting for Jane Austen for the 2014 Novelette Hugo!

30. Note that she continues to ignore the “daywalking vampire” and “painting in the attic” theories.

31. Wait – can she claim royalties?

32. “She may in fact be Jane Austen.”

    Didn’t we already know this? I kinda thought it was a given.

33. @Phonenician – how do you think she affords the beautiful dresses?

34. Suddenly somewhat more worried about “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”. I say!

35. “Does she sparkle in the sun?”
    To steal a line from a comment thread over on Tor.com: Vampires should not sparkle… unless you douse them in white phosphorus

36. Wow, that model is good enough to make it into the uncanny valley.

37. So similar that it is a bit disconcerting. And both sets of novels are great.

38. “Does she sparkle in the sun?”
    To steal a line from a comment thread over on Tor.com: Vampires should not sparkle… unless you douse them in white phosphorus

    Now that Charlie Stross has released “The Rhesus Chart”, you can get to see whether vampires sparkle in the Laundryverse or not…

    If I could figure out how to set a hidden spoiler, I’d put the answer (and there is a definitive answer in the book) here…

39. This plot twist was surprising, yet inevitable …

40. Oh my god. That is mind-blowing.

41. Keep her away from any Mark Twain doppelgangers or there might be trouble.

42. The resemblance is absolutely uncanny!

43. There can be only one!

44. If I could, I would post the side by side I just did… its’ super uncanny. I emailed it to you John, so you could consider posting it.

45. Aunti Laura:

    I haven’t mostly because I don’t know what the rights situation is for the Jane Austen picture — I have to see if I can legally post it.

46. Who is Jane Austin posing as nowadays?

47. Apart from the fact that the resemblance is downright spooky, reincartation has not been scientifically disproved . . . .
    BTW, has anybody heard/read what MRK has to say on the resemblance?

48. @ WOL

    Yes, as she posted in this very thread:

    http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/09/things-weve-learned-about-mary-robinette-kowal-today/#comment-716939