The Calculating Stars

About “The Calculating Stars”

A 2018 novel by Mary Robinette Kowal. On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite destroys much of the U.S. east coast including Washington, DC, setting off a climate cataclysm that will render Earth inhospitable, much as it did for the dinosaurs. Elma York, a WASP pilot and mathematician, joins the International Aerospace Coalition's moon program as a computer and begins to push for women to become astronauts as well.