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This was a really good book!
It's a prequel to a novelette available for free online, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, when the protagonist of the series, Elma York, is an old woman.
The Calculating Stars takes place in Elma's younger days. The basic premise: in the 1950's, after a major meteorite impact, humanity makes a rather more concerted effort to colonize space than in our history because it suddenly seems kinda urgent to get off-planet. Elma, a pilot, wants to be one of the first astronauts, despite the rampant sexism of the era working against her.
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It's a prequel to a novelette available for free online, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, when the protagonist of the series, Elma York, is an old woman.
The Calculating Stars takes place in Elma's younger days. The basic premise: in the 1950's, after a major meteorite impact, humanity makes a rather more concerted effort to colonize space than in our history because it suddenly seems kinda urgent to get off-planet. Elma, a pilot, wants to be one of the first astronauts, despite the rampant sexism of the era working against her.
( Read more... )
