She advocates for feminism and for women of color with admirable.admirableness, but Elma never really addresses her own privilege. Her supposed flaw of discomfort with public speaking is apparently not too obvious to anyone but her, as she's lauded by other characters for how well she does it. Elma is an obvious genius, ethical to a fault, and sets records at everything she attempts. The Apollo-era technology is well-researched and well-presented and always feels organic-more organic than the characters. Elma fights the sexism and racism of the era as well as her own personal anxieties. Earth may have just decades to live, and both men and women will need to go into space for humanity to survive. The Meteor, as it comes to be known, destroys Washington, D.C., and most of the East Coast, leaving the survivors to scramble to fill leadership gaps and address the sudden winter brought on by the impact and the devastating greenhouse effect that will follow. Elma is a physicist, pilot, and human computer she and her engineer husband, Nathaniel, both work for NASA's predecessor agency. In the 1950s, the world nearly ends, first due to a strike from what Elma York will always remind people was a meteor ite and then through the resulting climate change. Veteran historical fantasist Kowal ( Ghost Talkers, 2016, etc.) tackles an alternate history of the space race, in which a catastrophe necessitates an earlier reach for the stars-and the confrontation of gender barriers.
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