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The Relentless Moon

Lady Astronaut, Book 3

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The Relentless Moon

By: Mary Robinette Kowal
Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
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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.

©2020 Mary Robinette Kowal (P)2020 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Political Science Fiction Women's Fiction

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This was my favourite of the series. Loved the setting on both moon and earth, liked the tension and pacing too. The slightly alternate timeline setting is just so interesting.

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I cannot express how happy I am to have started this series on a whim.

one of the best series I've ever read

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No Elma? True but yet this is so good, suspenseful, funny and the audio version of a page turner. I really enjoy Robinette Kowal as a narrator too. She really does a great job bringing the story to life.

Mary Robinette Kowal doesn't disappoint

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What a great book and awesome series. I was just as interested in the thanks and historical notes at the end.

Great story, good ending, well read

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a story set in an alternative universe, but eerily familiar. An exciting and pressing who-dun-it takes place on the moon carried by a multi- dimensional cast of well-developed characters

best science fiction I have read in a long time

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