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Review

Praise for The Fated Sky“An immersive world that will stay with the reader well past the final page.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review“The Lady Astronaut series might be set in an alternate past, but they’re cutting-edge SF novels that speak volumes about the present.”―The Verge “Tantalizing.”–Locus“An alternative look at the midcentury space race led by an intelligent, well-meaning, but flawed heroine.”―Booklist“From dangers on Earth from wild protestors, to the dangers of a three-year trip to Mars, the tale is an exciting, yet well-researched tale. Excellent.”―Philadelphia Weekly“This is by no means just for Sci Fi lovers.”―Caroline Bookbinder“This was a fabulous sequel.”―Marzie Reads Praise for The Calculating Stars“This is what NASA never had, a heroine with attitude.”―The Wall Street Journal“In The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal imagines an alternate history of spaceflight that reminds me of everything I loved about Hidden Figures.”―Cady Coleman, Astronaut“Readers will thrill to the story of this “lady astronaut” and eagerly anticipate the promised sequels.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Kowal’s book was revelatory for me, because here is a version of history where men eventually, finally, listen to women.”―Tor.com“A fine balance of integrating historical accuracy―including mid-twentieth-century sexism, racism, and technology―with speculative storytelling.”―Booklist“Readers will be hooked.”―Library Journal“An engrossing alternate history with a unique point of view, The Fated Sky dramatically demonstrates the technical problems with going to Mars―but the technical problems are the not the only ones. Never backing down from vital issues of race and gender, The Fated Sky confronts the human issues of space travel in a United States made increasingly desperate by a massive meteor strike. Plausible, convincing, and ultimately moving.”―Nancy Kress, author of the Hugo Award-winning "Yesterday's Kin"

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About the Author

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the historical fantasy novels Ghost Talkers and the five books in The Glamourist Histories series. She is also a multiple Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov’s. Mary, a professional puppeteer, lives in Chicago with her husband Robert and over a dozen manual typewriters.

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Product details

Series: Lady Astronaut (Book 2)

Paperback: 384 pages

Publisher: Tor Books (August 21, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 076539894X

ISBN-13: 978-0765398949

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.7 out of 5 stars

50 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#30,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I really wanted to like this two-book set, but it's...just...weird.The setup is promising: Imagine a universe in which Dewey does defeat Truman, helping accelerate the fledgling space program; and a good thing too, because a meteor hits the Eastern Seaboard and wipes out virtually all of the government, creating a massive greenhouse effect that will render the planet uninhabitable within decades. Time to colonize space!...but that's about it with the setup, because the series quickly devolves into an Ozzie-and-Harriet "housewife in space" first-person narrative. The author doesn't seem to know what to do with the main character, so she loads the character with all sorts of "character": She's a WASP pilot from WWII (though none of that expertise really shows up once she's in space); oh, and she's Jewish; oh, and a specific Jewish sect; and her husband is absolutely perfect; and they have PG sex virtually every chapter; and she suffers from debilitating anxiety for which the cure is incessant recitation of prime numbers. Bless her heart!Even in alternate-universe world, this character wouldn't be qualified for space. But oh, she make a killer Chocolate Chess Pie when she's in the kitchen of the rocket headed off to Mars!Even this nonsense might warrant a complete read-through if the alternate universe concept wasn't simply abandoned for the Peyton Place narrative. Just one example: The book mentions Eisenhower as a rare survivor after the meteor wipes out millions, including virtually all of the government, in 1952. So, he's alive and kicking. Within three chapters, he's forgotten and never brought up again, even though in our universe, he was a two-term president and with his military chops, he most certainly would have been at the apex of power in the alternate universe. The author was apparently too busy giving us yaw/pitch/roll coordinates every other chapter.Some of the narrative moves the plot forward, and the two-book series ends with the heroine on Mars. And that's it. Lots of blissful ignorance once the author establishes that Earth is doomed; there is no way even in this alternate universe that tiny footholds on the moon and Mars are going to save humanity.Instead, it's mostly a series about how wonderful it would have been if women had been allowed into NASA in the 50s. Kind of a vanity "what if" thought exercise committed to paper in a fiction form. You may find it mildly interesting.

Mary Robinette Kowal pulls off some amazing feats in this, the second half of The Lady Astronaut. For one thing, she's created an enormously sympathetic character who manages to unwittingly alienate most of her acquaintenances through simple and human mistakes. She has also created an alternate history in which, plausibly, humans have established a lunar colony and are launching an expedition to Mars--in 1961. Remarkably, she does this without any hand waving or magical new technology. The members of the Mars expedition are calculating maneuvers by hand!As someone who lived through 1961 (well before Koval was born) I was constantly amazed at her attention to detail, whether it's in Elma York's kitchen, the painfully difficult math, or racial and social tension. It's all seamlessly woven into the story and never trips up the narrative. There were a couple of things that brought me up short, thinking "not in '61" but, yes, you could have a copy of Stranger in a Strange Land on board your ship to Mars.As long-time SF readers, some of us may have become jaded by countless tales of interstellar empires, but The Fated Sky is a reminder that getting into space is hard and it's magical.

Gotta love a book with a bibliography! (I know, I know - it is the librarian in me! And, yes, Calculating Stars had a bibliography too!)Fated Sky has the same gritty realism as Calculating Stars had. The second book is focused on getting to Mars, not just getting to the Moon.Fortunately, the author had a lot of resources to call upon when writing this book.She was able to get extensive personal help from two actual NASA astronauts in particular: Kjell Lindgren and Cady Coleman. Also Ms. Kowal was able to adapt an actual transcript from Apollo 8 for one of her spacecrafts. (All of the above is why the book felt so realistic.)The people dynamics were just as spot on.Ms. Kowal has a mixed crew (not only black, white, Asian but also men AND women). Plus, after the Meteor and conditions kept getting worse on Earth, there were more and more "Earth First" protesters who wanted the space program cancelled and all of its funds spent on more Earthly matters.Yes, it is Alternate History but it was still the 1950's and the 1960's so there were racial tensions as well as sexual tensions (paternalistic attitudes towards women, such as assigning laundry and cleaning tasks primarily to the women astronauts, etc.)Plus, politics rears its ugly head.In our timeline we had the United States and the U.S.S.R. running competing space programs. In the alternate timeline, it is an international effort but South Africa still had both Apartheid and was contributing heavily towards the space budget. So, yes, there is a white South African astronaut in the crew.Highly recommended!

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