The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal
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The Calculating Stars

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9/10/2019
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I was really impressed by this book. It deals with sexism and racism in a 1950's alt-history post-apocalyptic setting. It was tight, fast paced, and well-written with a marvelous female lead. I read this book on vacation and was listening to "Lucifer's Hammer" on the road, which has a similar apocalyptic scene. The books have some similarities, and a couple of times, I got the characters confused. But while that book is a disaster novel, this book is more focused on the social issues of the day, with the disaster acting as a backdrop. However, the disaster part of the book was one of the best I've ever read, being a small-scale narrative rather than trying to explain all the global details. Kowal won both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards for this.

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