The relentless moon

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Title :

The relentless moon / Mary Robinette Kowal.

Title:

The relentless moon

Author:

Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

Format:

Books

Series:

A Lady Astronaut novel

Lady Astronaut novels.

Physical Description:

542 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

ISBN:

9781250236951

9781250236968

Production / Publication Information:

New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2020.

General Note:

"A Tor book."

Summary:

Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes inhabitable.

Bibliography note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Language:

English

Genre:

Science fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Subject Term:

Women astronauts -- Fiction.

Space colonies -- Fiction.

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Material Type	Library	Call Number	Item Barcode	Location
Book	Searching... Chelmsford Public Library	SCI/FIC/KOWAL	31480011380471	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Andover - Memorial Hall Library	SF KOWAL	31330009267422	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Dracut - Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library	FIC/KOWAL	31482002960790	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Groton Public Library	SF KOWAL	37003701648678	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Lawrence Public Library	FIC KOW SCI	31549004803804	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Lowell - Pollard Memorial Library	SCI FIC KOWAL	31481005538363	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library	SF KOW	32124001936855	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Methuen - Nevins Memorial Library	SF KOW	31548003302453	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Middleton - Flint Public Library	F KOWAL	32126001744767	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Newburyport Public Library	FIC KOWAL M	32128003870210	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... North Andover - Stevens Memorial Library	S-F KOWAL	31478010153022	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Tewksbury Public Library	FICTION KOWAL	32132003202267	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Westford - J.V. Fletcher Library	F KOWAL (SF)	31990004899691	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel!
Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Series!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!

Mary Robinette Kowal continues her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Lady Astronaut series, following The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky , with The Relentless Moon .

The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The IAC's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable is being threatened.

Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Her friend and fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight and political skills to keep the program on track. But she is less happy that her husband, the Governor of Kansas, is considering a run for President.

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Hugo and Nebula Award--winner Kowal expands her Lady Astronaut alternate history series with this stellar third installment, set in the 1960s, a decade after the devastating meteor strike that led to the creation of the International Aerospace Coalition in The Calculating Stars. Nicole Wargin, an ambitious, driven, and passionate Air Force pilot turned Lady Astronaut, leaves her husband, Kansas governor Kenneth Wargin, on Earth to become one of the first inhabitants of a colony on the moon. As the head of the colony's security, Nicole works openly to establish a habitat for humanity on the moon, and covertly to counter the efforts of the "Earth First" terrorists, who are intent on sabotaging the IAC and humankind's expansion into space. Between lunar security crises and figuring out who she can trust among her fellow colonists, Nicole must also work through personal issues, including her struggle with anorexia and her now long-distance marriage. Kowal effortlessly blends espionage, spacefaring adventure, and social fiction, paying particular attention to the details of life as a female astronaut in the 1960s. This is hard science fiction at its most emotional, intimate, and insightful. Agent: Seth Fishman, the Gernert Company. (July)

Booklist Review

Sabotage threatens to shut down the Artemis lunar colony in the third installation in Kowal's award-winning Lady Astronaut series (after The Fated Sky, 2018). The Relentless Moon follows Nicole Wargin, one of the original Lady Astronauts and wife to the governor of Kansas. It's 1963, eleven years since the meteor strike that decimated the east coast of the United States. The national capital is moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and Nicole is finding that politics and space don't mix. Many think that too many valuable resources are being allocated to the lunar mission and not enough to helping those affected by the meteorite. When it's discovered that the International Aerospace Coalition may have been infiltrated by a terrorist group, Nicole is sent to the moon to find the culprit. But will she discover the truth before it's too late? Focusing on the politics and daily living of space, The Relentless Moon takes a few chapters before it really blasts off. Once it does, readers will want to buckle up for a ride, but should be aware of Wargin's frankly described fight with anorexia.

Library Journal Review

With his stories already nominated for Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy honors, debut novelist Rosenbaum (The Ant King and Other Stories) returns with The Unraveling, which dreams up a far-future, distant-galaxy, rigidly structured society where individuals have multiple bodies and staid-gendered Fift and bail-gendered bioengineer Shria wind up in the midst of an eyebrow-raising art spectacle. Salvatore's Relentless closes his "Generations" trilogy with Zaknafein reunited with son Drizzt Do'Urden and reconciled to life's unpredictability (100,000-copy first printing).