Harry Turtledove has an entire series based on the South winning the Civil War unofficially called The Southern Victory Series.

The most popular one is of Germany winning World War II as in Phillip K.

Kowal does a phenomenal job with her narration.It seems a lot of alternate history science fiction novels revolve around a major turning point in history. I also highly recommend this book in audio format if you like audiobooks. Overall, I really enjoyed The Calculating Stars, and highly recommend it to people who enjoy the following: I didn’t have too much of an issue with it, but I do know a couple of people who found them a bit much. The one thing I will warn people about with this book is that the sex scenes contain a lot of rocketry innuendos. Kowal does a particularly good job with building deep intricate relationships between the different characters. The main character suffers from anxiety, and I really loved the way the author described her realising this and coming with ways to deal with it. The characters were really well written throughout the story. There are also frequent mentions of the struggles PoCs and, more specifically, WoCs face in being accepted in the workforce.

Sexism is extremely common, and she is constantly fighting to have women pilots admitted to the space program and trained as astronauts. The story follows Dr Elma York, a former WASP pilot and a mathematician as she and her husband work for International Aerospace Coalition in the attempts to set up a colony in space.Įlma is faced with all of the challenges of society in the 50s. In response to the climate cataclysm, everyone started looking up to the stars to escape the Earth before it becomes unliveable. In the 1950s, a meteorite hit the Earth, causing mass devastation to East Coast of the US and ongoing climate change issues. The characters’ voices and emotions are all unique and added an extra layer to the story. Her performance really blew my expectations out of the park. As a big fan of the Writing Excuses podcast, I was already somewhat familiar with the author and already knew that she was a good audiobook narrator. The Calculating Stars was an absolutely amazing book.

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