The Calculating Stars
Book description
A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts to colonize space, as well as an unprecedented opportunity for a much larger share…
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This is somewhat science fiction, but more of an alternate historical fiction novel. This is the first in the Lady Astronaut series. It starts off with a bang, literally, when a meteorite hits Earth in 1952. This meteorite destroys much of the east coast and sets off a ticking time bomb where Earth will no longer be habitable in a matter of decades. Now there is a full effort to colonize space so humans can find another home. Women who were once thought not able to become astronauts are now able to vie for spots in the Astronaut Corps along…
From Paige's list on scrappy space adventures.
A fresh approach, a strong character who is still open and vulnerable. This multiple-award-winning alternate history of women astronauts is set in a very realistic 1950s, with telling scenes and reflections about the treatment of Blacks and women. After a meteor strikes the Earth and warms the atmosphere, there’s a similar resonance re the urgency of global warming. This novel is at the adult edge of Young Adult, with some sex scenes and a certain glorification of drinking—both also very 1950s, especially among test pilots and astronauts. (Full disclosure: my own father was a test pilot who crashed in the…
From Sharman's list on historical YA books with fantastical history.
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