The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Elma York has a PhD in physics, and her husband has one in engineering. They are enjoying a much-deserved weekend getaway in the Poconos in 1952 when a huge meteorite destroys Washington DC and much of the North American eastern seaboard. Experts fear the aftermath will create an extinction-level event, and this accelerates the race to the stars. Elma has a front row seat, but she wants more; she wants to go into space.
2018’s The Calculating Stars is the first novel of Mary Robinette Kowal’s LADY ASTRONAUT series.
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