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| Trade paperback, 381 pages Published 2018 Acquired and read August 2019 |
The Fated Sky continues the story begun in The Calculating Stars, of Elma "Lady Astronaut" York, and her mission to get into space. When the book opens, she's making regular runs to the lunar colony... but her real goal is to go on humanity's first trip to Mars, which is what occupies the majority of the book.
It's enjoyable stuff. I like those kind of space problem-solving stories; this is Apollo 13 or The Martian, but with more human drama because they're all cooped up together for so long. My biggest issue is that it feels a little tension-free at time, just because you know how a novel like this has to be structured, and it doesn't really throw any big surprises at you, just little ones. I think I probably liked the first one more, but this one had some great moments here and there.
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