Best Novel, 2019

The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal (opens in a new tab)

432 pages · First published by Tor Books

A meteorite destroys Washington in 1952 and sets off runaway warming, so the space programme becomes a matter of survival. A mathematician and pilot fights to be allowed to fly.

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