mary robinette kowal

The Fated Sky is the second full novel in Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series (there are also a couple of shorts; one set before the first book and one after it). A small colony of mainly scientists and engineers has now been established on the moon and with the runaway climate, following the...

I bought this off the back of all the good reviews it seems to have acquired along with the slightly more dubious awards it has won. But not without some trepidation; it is an alternate history which is something I’m generally not keen on and it sounded like it has sexism and racism very much...