![]() ![]() When throwing up barriers for Elma to face on her road toward becoming an astronaut, Kowal did not gloss over the intersectionality of this issue. The Calculating Stars focuses on the effort of women as computers at this time, and how the space program would have failed without these incredible ladies. If the promise of Lady Astronauts (or Astronettes, if you like) is not enough to get you to pick up this book, perhaps the wide array of diversity in this novel will. It is glaringly obvious that Kowal did a mass amount of research, not just from the reference page in the back of her book, but by the ease with which she writes about the finer points of space launches and training tactics in the 50s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elma is determined to save the world, even if that means she must colonize the moon herself.Ī beautiful blend of historical fiction and science fiction, The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is the first book in a currently growing series that explores the concept of women becoming astronauts and colonizing the moon in the 50s. Humanity is now in a desperate race against time to start colonizing the moon before environmental affects from the meteorite cause the Earth to become uninhabitable. Barely escaping with their lives, Elma and Nathanial fly west and get jobs at the newly founded International Aerospace Coalition. That is, until the early hours of a morning in 1952 when a meteorite hits Washington, D.C., wiping out the entire east coast. ![]()
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