The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)

by Mary Robinette Kowal

We loved Bubbles, but oh, he could be such an engineer sometimes. We had a saying: Engineers caused problems. Computers solved them.

“That’s nice.” Which is Southern for “fuck that.”

Women surrounded me like a bank of clouds. One minute, clear skies; next, zero visibility except for a flurry of white as the pages were whipped away.