The Relentless Moon: A Lady Astronaut Novel
by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel!
Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Series!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!
Mary Robinette Kowal continues her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Lady Astronaut series, following The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.
The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The IAC's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable is being threatened.
Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Her friend and fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight and political skills to keep the program on track. But she is less happy that her husband, the Governor of Kansas, is considering a run for President.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781250236968
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Published Date
- July 14, 2020
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 544
- Physical Info
- 1.5 in H x 8 in L x 5.3 in W (0.9 lb)
The series and its short stories are an alternative history of a calamity on Earth and the need to try to move humanity into space. Love the sci fi details. And the character development is great - makes you care.
This has been great alternative fiction, which I need given how awful the truth is here right now! Wouldn’t mind going to the moon myself!
I was so disappointed by this book. It's practically an homage to the notion that terrorists "win" by occupying our attention and instilling constant fear: the majority of this book consists of multiple, detailed attempts at sabotaging the space program, and it became extremely tiresome. I also didn't particularly like or connect with Nicole the way I had with Elma, who was much more interesting due to being Jewish and reckoning with her own prejudice and her place in racism. Even though I didn't miss all the sexual allusions to rocket launching, I lost interest in learning who the saboteur(s) were and ended up skimming a lot of it. I think Kowal is a great writer but I didn't care for the substance of this book.
As a sci fi fan, as a woman, as a reader and more I can’t get enough of this writer’s Lady Astronauts. Now I have to wait till next year for the next so maybe I will re-read the books again.
As a group, the Lady Astronaut series is without parallel.Spoiler alert: the fourth book this series comes out in 2025.....
