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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)

Mary Robinette Kowal

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Jul 11, 2019 Crowinator rated it really liked it

Shelves: feel-good-fic, 2019-reads, alt-history, school-hard-special-skills-sector, genre-historical, genre-science-fiction, adult, ra-those-bookclub-people, ra-sff-for-the-nongenre-person, favorites-2019

Actual rating: 4.5 stars

I loved this but wow, I cannot read a book or see a movie about space without reaffirming how I never, ever, ever want to be an astronaut or go to space. Ever. I will just die on this planet, thanks.

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Feb 29, 2020 Rebecca rated it really liked it

Shelves: bookclub-read, 2020-read-harder

Read Harder: Natural Disaster & Climate Change

This book was chosen for one of my bookclubs and fits nicely with these two Read Harder challenge tasks, as the premise is that an enormous meteorite decimates the East Coast DC area which then leads to cataclysmic climate change and a need to establish colonies off planet. I also found it a thrilling read, which was nice because the last couple of non-audio books I’ve read haven’t been as engaging. This was just the right book to pull me out of a bi ...more

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Nov 01, 2019 Emily rated it liked it

ok, so here's this, i think this 4 star review might needs to be lowered, since i literally cannot remember what happened at the end of the book, i put myself back on hold since i was sure i didnt finish it since like nothing happened... oddly paced out, my biggest question i think is what is up with stetsons wife we have to wait until the next book to find out? i don't know... maybe we found out? I think this is an issue with all of Kowal's writing, i find it charming but totally forgetable, i ...more

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Apr 22, 2019 Alison rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This was fun. Much less of a focus on the apocalypse itself - the precipitating event (meteor strike) is covered quickly and not in depth, as it’s not the focus. The focus is on the preparations to get off of Earth, which will become uninhabitable. Lots of interesting cultural and social dynamics at play.

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