The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)

by Mary Robinette Kowal

It’s hard to convince people that catastrophic weather changes are coming on a nice day.”

The threshold is not the question. There will always be Befores and Afters. The question is: what do you do after you cross that threshold?”

Someone had brought gin, and of course that meant we had to experiment with other cocktail variations. For science. Chemistry is a very important part of rocketry.