Mary Robinette Kowal visited Left Bank Books here locally to promote this fourth novel in the series. I read my signed copy with much excitement. Astronaut Dr. Elma York is in a leadership role on the second Mars expedition. Most of the international crew are couples with professional skills to continue developing the habitat on the surface of Mars. The series of novels is alternative history beginning just after WWII. The events of this book take place in 1970. Kowal is great at details about what it would be like living in space in orbit or on the surface of Mars. The crew works really well together, but Dr. York begins to realize that something very wrong happened on the first Mars expedition. This past problem leads to a current problem in the technologically complex system of a Martian habitat.
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal (2014) 33 pages
This short story is the first thing Kowal wrote in this universe, featuring Dr. Elma York. Chronologically is takes place decades after the events of book four with Elma and her husband already longtime residents of Mars. It is a sad story as Elma's husband Nathaniel has diminishing health from a nerve disorder. I read it on Hoopla after The Martian Contingency.
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