Mary Robinette Kowal: The Fated Sky (Paperback, 2018, Tom Doherty Associates Book)
trade paperback, 384 páginas
Idioma English
Publicado el 2 de Agosto de 2018 por Tom Doherty Associates Book.
The Fated Sky continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly to Earth.
But humanity must get a foothold on Mars. The first exploratory mission is being planned, and none of the women astronauts is on the crew list. The International Aerospace Coalition has grave reservations about sending their "Lady Astronauts" on such a dangerous mission. The problem with that is the need for midjourney navigation calculations. The new electronic computational machines are not reliable and not easily programmed. It might be okay for a backup, but there will have to be a human computer on board. And all the computers are women.
This description comes from the publisher. The Fated Sky …
The Fated Sky continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly to Earth.
But humanity must get a foothold on Mars. The first exploratory mission is being planned, and none of the women astronauts is on the crew list. The International Aerospace Coalition has grave reservations about sending their "Lady Astronauts" on such a dangerous mission. The problem with that is the need for midjourney navigation calculations. The new electronic computational machines are not reliable and not easily programmed. It might be okay for a backup, but there will have to be a human computer on board. And all the computers are women.
This description comes from the publisher. The Fated Sky is the second book in the Lady Astronaut series, the first of which is The Calculating Sky.
I'm enjoying this series a lot, it is refreshing and written with a lot of nuance.
Something I love from the first book and this one is the way Elma becomes conscious of her privilege and how she grows a lot as a person by acknowledging her needs and being loyal to herself rather than to what she thinks other people expect from her.
