Book Review: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal [Kowal]

The Calculating Stars is an alternate history where Earth’s need to make it into space is hastened by the meteorite strike that changes Earth’s atmosphere. Elsa York had been a member of the Women’s Air Service Project during the Second World War and is now a computer for the space program where her husband is an engineer. I loved the fact that the author combined real things like the WASPs and the computers but also argued for women in space sooner than we actually made it.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Hidden Figures, by Margot Shetterly, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, by Fannie Flagg or Flygirl, by Sherri Smith.]

[ publisher’s official The Calculating Stars web page ] | [ official Mary Robinette Kowal web site ]

Recommended by Susan S.
Eiseley Branch Library

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