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The Calculating Stars
- A Lady Astronaut Novel
- Narrateur(s): Mary Robinette Kowal
- Durée: 11 h et 41 min
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Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning Lady Astronaut of Mars.
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs.
This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process.
Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too.
Elma’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
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- Babak
- 2019-09-08
disappointing!
I got this book because it was advertised as the winner of the Hugo award. I expected a sci-fi, which this book is certainly not.
The book starts with a thrilling story of meteorites hitting the earth and changing the atmosphere of the earth, but drifts off to a lousy and boring story of a woman mathematician who aspires to become an astronaut and had to fight her way up in the context of the 1950's society. The book fails badly to be even remotely feminist though. The story is incoherent, haphazardly put together, full of annoying characters and annoying conversations and awkward sex scenes. It was a drag to finish this book and the narrator's annoying voice did not help either.
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- Wilson Shane
- 2020-08-29
Wow. Mary is amazing at both writing and acting.
This book had me in tears more than once. To say this book helped give me empathy for the environment that those who are subject to prejudice would be an understatement. Not only are the characters amazingly developed, but Mary's acting was phenomenal. movie often don't come close to the emotion she can carry on a single word.
and the icing on the cake was the believable world and real physics. just the right about of detail to keep engineers like me keen, but also easy enough to explain without being condescending.
this book makes me want to go back and remove a star from all my previous reviews.
amazing
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- 101mystic
- 2018-09-19
Do You Remember?
There are a lot of sour-faced people out there who don't follow Mary Robinette Kowal on her twitter or on Writing Excuses claiming bad science and bad history, I assure you that you are wrong and she has done her research and that it's a wonderfully researched and character-driven world. Strong female characters and a diverse cast, it is a wonderful change of pace. I loved every page of it and loved that Elma has anxiety because it made me feel so connected with her.
Maybe this book isn't for you, but damn it all it was everything for me.
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- Robert
- 2018-07-27
Ignore the reviews ..
This is a weak story with weak science read badly. Some of the “headline’ readings and news quotes are painful on the ears and very, very amateurish. I have not returned a book in quite a while, but this rubbish is on its way back.
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- Blythe
- 2019-07-13
Easy reading alternate history of space program
In an alternate version of Earth's history, a meteorite strikes the USA in 1952, obliterating Washington and most of the US government. Pilot/mathematician Elma and her rocket scientist husband Nathaniel York escape immediate death by a combination of coincidence and intelligence, and make it to safety at a military base where their expertise leads them into an advisory position to the new acting president (former minister of agriculture). As Elma calculates the climate impact from the meteorite will be an initial cooling and then an escalating greenhouse effect that will be so severe the oceans will start to boil, both push for a desperate escalation of a space program to establish a colony on the moon before humanity is wiped out entirely.
In this alternate history, the story follows Elma and Nathaniel as Earth struggles to establish a moon colony on a vastly earlier timeline than ours, in an America where segregation is still very present, women are still in the "Mad Men" style roles of homemakers and decorations, yet are also the "Hidden Figures" style computers who are essential to spaceflight before actual electronic computers reliably exist. As a former WASP pilot, Elma struggles for the inclusion of women in the astronautics program.
I had an extremely low opinion of Kowal's first "Glamourist" book but decided to give this one a try as it's a completely different genre, and I enjoyed it a lot more. Part of this may be due to picking this one up as an audiobook - if she made as many terrible spelling choices, I wouldn't notice in audiobook form - but mainly as an American author I think the characters and setting of this book are just much more within her ability to write well (while pseudo Austin-esque last-century British characters are clearly NOT). The main character was enjoyable and, as a woman in a STEM field myself, it's always a joy to see a smart and capable heroine. Even though she seems to make some particularly stupid decisions, it was possible to frame those as a side effect of the era and attitudes towards women of the time.
The other characters were likeable enough but did seem rather stereotypical or tokenistic. Nathaniel is apparently the perfect feminist enlightened and supportive husband in every possible way, which seems more than a bit improbable given the era. The characters of other races and nationalities were good to have, but didn't really do much more for the plot than representing their race and/or nationality. The fact she's Jewish was brought up repeatedly but ultimately didn't seem to have any meaning or impact, even when she meets Wernher von Braun in person. While Kowal was clearly trying to bring up the topics of race and ethnicity and discrimination, it's done with a very shallow touch that doesn't really have any impact on anything. Elma is also a heroine with every possible advantage imaginable so that everything works out perfectly for her - rich family, perfect supportive husband, brilliant mind, brother who coincidentally happens to have exactly the right skills and job to help with her climate modelling, military father who protected her in her WASP days, etc etc. So yes, everything's just a bit easy for our heroine all the way through.
It's more of a joyful romp down alternate history while eating popcorn than a gripping novel of actual hardship, but read it eating a candy bar and it's still a fun story of an alternate history that might have been.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-04-02
it's really nice to have the author narrating
Ms Kowal is an excellent author and narrator, and it's especially nice to have her reading her own story - she clearly knows every beat and voice inside and out, and did an excellent job personifying her characters. Also, it's just a good story with believable adversaries and ultimately very human characters.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2022-05-03
Such a refreshing change
It so nice to have pleasant story with good characters and healthy relationships for a change. I loved the short story at the end of MRK's "Word Puppets" short fiction collection (amazing as well btw) and the prequel novel did not dissappoint. I'm looking forward to the next 2 in the series, right after I give John Cleaver a bit of my attention.
p.s. I howled at the "Tayler, Wells, and Sanderson" call out. Very nice of MRK to include the gang at some point, especially without immediately killing them off 😅
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-11
This was hard to rate properly
This was a well-written book. The characters are interesting and engaging, the narration is spot on, and the experience of prejudice based on race, sex, and mental illness was very believably described. There is not a lot of science fiction per se in the story but I note that it is the first of a larger trilogy so I expect that will expand later on.
My difficulty in rating it (and finishing it) is purely personal. I work in mental health. I read for escapism. I do not need to be reminded of the bleak helplessness of some people’s lives, of just how awful people can be to each other, and how unfair the world can be to those who have no power to protect themselves.
So even though I could not finish it, I would also highly recommend it to anybody who does not have my particular relationship with the world.
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- Hayley
- 2021-01-27
Seveneves in the 50's
really a fantastic tale that pounds home a lot of sad but true suffragette and racism problems from the past. really looking forward to part 2
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- Thea
- 2020-09-17
science, strong female characters, smart & sexy!
I've read and/or listened to this book about 6 times now, and never get tired of it. Mary Robinette has clearly researched space travel extensively, and delivers a wide cast of layered characters to take us on this adventure. Having an award-winning author who is also a talented narrator brings this book to life in a way nobody else could. My next credit is going towards book 2!
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