RECOMMENDED: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is $2.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B grade:
Even though at first I found this book to be slow going, I came to appreciate it for its intersectional feminism and its unabashed adoration of all the science and math that goes into making space flight possible.
RECOMMENDED: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is $2.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B grade:
Even though at first I found this book to be slow going, I came to appreciate it for its intersectional feminism and its unabashed adoration of all the science and math that goes into making space flight possible.
RECOMMENDED: Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster is 99c! This is a steampunk romance, to which Elyse gave an A+ grade:
McMaster’s London Steampunk series is everything I want in a steampunk world–richly imagined, gritty and dark, and full of hot heroes and hot sex. Also, the hero is a cockney-accented, leather-clad, bad-boy vampire, so if Spike from Buffy gave you tingles? Yeah, go buy this book.
It’s Links time, everyone! Let’s all settle in for some stuff around the internet. I’m currently en route to NYC for RWA, like many of the romance community. I’ll have my name badge on and if you see me walking around, do say hello. My resting bitch face is genetic, though admittedly being in New York makes me grumpy. … The Ripped Bodice has announced they’ll be starting The Ripped Bodice Awards for Excellence in … Continue reading Links: Cats, Space, & More
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is $2.99! I have a feeling this is on sale because of the Apollo 11 anniversary. Carrie read this one and gave it a B grade:
Even though at first I found this book to be slow going, I came to appreciate it for its intersectional feminism and its unabashed adoration of all the science and math that goes into making space flight possible.
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is $2.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which are all Goodreads Choice Award winners and finalists. Carrie read this one and gave it a B grade:
Even though at first I found this book to be slow going, I came to appreciate it for its intersectional feminism and its unabashed adoration of all the science and math that goes into making space flight possible.
The Fated Sky is the second book in the Lady Astronaut duology, an alternate history book in which America’s space program is drastically sped up and expanded due to an extinction level event that will make Earth uninhabitable in approximately fifty years. In the first book, The Calculating Stars, pilot and computer Elma York became an astronaut and flew to the moon. In this book, she heads to Mars, where scientists hope to establish a long … Continue reading The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
The main thing you need to know about The Calculating Stars is that it has a slow pace. The other thing you need to know is that it is feminist and nerdy. This alternate-history novel by Mary Robinette Kowal tells a story of women who worked as computers for the US Space Program and who fight to become astronauts. Much of what happens in the book happened in real life (see: Hidden Figures and The Mercury 13). … Continue reading The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Mary Robinette Kowal fan. She’s gracious in person and challenging, inspiring, and funny in print, and she does puppetry and hand sews Regency dresses, so I’d be disposed to follow her around like a puppy even if she never wrote a word of fiction. As it happens, she also writes great fiction, and her Regency fantasy series Glamourist Histories is delightful (you can read my reviews for that … Continue reading Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
