Book #75 of 2022: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #3) I’m still enjoying this alternate-history sci-fi series about the ramifications of a natural disaster accelerating the space program as humanity in the mid-twentieth century seeks a way to get most of the population off-planet, but I consider this third volume to …
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Book #240 of 2020: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #2) This alternative history sequel furthers the accelerated timeline for space travel after the natural disaster of the original novel, with most of its new plot concerning a 1960s first voyage to Mars. That’s fun to see play out via Apollo-level technology, …
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Book #94 of 2019: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #1) I really like this alternate history novel, in which a natural disaster in 1952 accelerates the timeline of space travel and a female pilot and mathematician struggles to break the glass ceiling of the new rocket program. The first quarter or …
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