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Josh Simmons

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Technicolor geek. Slow reader. Main social presence: @josh@josh.tel / josh.tel/@josh

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finished reading The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal (Book two of the Lady Astronaut series)

Mary Robinette Kowal: The Fated Sky (Paperback, 2019, Rebellion Publishing) No rating

The Fated Sky continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars …

The way this book weaves together the science, the humanity, and with them familiar cultural baggage, it's like going on an adventure without this sense that it's a form of escapism or "could never happen." There's definitely something to be said for reading sci-fi written by people other than white men. I'm looking forward to starting the next book in the trilogy!

An aside, I may never shake the experience of the chapter when they used "the bag." My goodness.