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thewayneKowal's Lady Astronaut series is, simply put, awesome. IMHO. The first book is The Calculating Stars, and it begins with a literal bang: a meteorite smacks into the ocean off the eastern seaboard of the USA. The resulting tidal wave and flooding completely destroys Washington, DC and tons of other areas.
The heroine of the story is a calculator, a woman who calculates (she later gets her hand on the first computers!). And she starts doing math, and realizes that this impact is going to invoke climate change on the scale of a nuclear winter. Her calculations are verified (gotta check, even if she is a genius) and thus the American Space Program begins - in 1952!
Excellent read, I found it difficult to put down and burned through all three books in very little time. And it found serious appreciation: "The Lady Astronaut Universe is Apollo-era science fiction that sprang to life with Mary Robinette Kowal's Hugo-award winning novelette "The Lady Astronaut of Mars." The first novel in the series, The Calculating Stars, is one of only 18 books to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards."
The series is currently a trilogy of novels plus some short stories. This book, expected July '25, is an additional nine stories (or more, depending on how far the Kickstarter goes!) and is also sort of a 'get excitement going' for the next novel, due March or May next year.
The initial goal of $30,000 was exceeded in hours, they've almost doubled it with over a thousand backers.
$10 will get you the PDF of the book, more will get you more (how profound!) up to an including a weekend in Space Camp!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mary-robinette/silent-spaces
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The heroine of the story is a calculator, a woman who calculates (she later gets her hand on the first computers!). And she starts doing math, and realizes that this impact is going to invoke climate change on the scale of a nuclear winter. Her calculations are verified (gotta check, even if she is a genius) and thus the American Space Program begins - in 1952!
Excellent read, I found it difficult to put down and burned through all three books in very little time. And it found serious appreciation: "The Lady Astronaut Universe is Apollo-era science fiction that sprang to life with Mary Robinette Kowal's Hugo-award winning novelette "The Lady Astronaut of Mars." The first novel in the series, The Calculating Stars, is one of only 18 books to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards."
The series is currently a trilogy of novels plus some short stories. This book, expected July '25, is an additional nine stories (or more, depending on how far the Kickstarter goes!) and is also sort of a 'get excitement going' for the next novel, due March or May next year.
The initial goal of $30,000 was exceeded in hours, they've almost doubled it with over a thousand backers.
$10 will get you the PDF of the book, more will get you more (how profound!) up to an including a weekend in Space Camp!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mary-robinette/silent-spaces
EDIT: fixed URL
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Date: 2024-06-28 05:10 am (UTC)I'm guessing /maybe/ her publisher only wants novels and doesn't want to mess with the short stories, but that's pure conjecture. And she wants her babies to fly free.