alternate history

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor, 2018)

★★★☆☆

A novel of alternate history, beginning with a 1952 meteorite strike that rapidly warms the earth, ultimately exploring sexism and racism in the context of Apollo-era space exploration. One of the few books that the staff of The Bookstore unanimously like. Pretty flawless: I enjoyed it and thought it delivered on everything it was trying to do, but didn’t connect with it more strongly than that.