TY - BOOK AU - Kowal,Mary Robinette TI - Calculating stars T2 - A Lady astronaut novel SN - 9780765378385 AV - PS3611.O74948 C35 2018 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - TOR, Tom Doherty Associates KW - Women astronauts KW - Fiction KW - Space colonies KW - Science fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-431) N2 - On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process ER -