The fourth Lady Astronaut novel returns to Elma York on the first permanent Mars base, where a covered-up disaster and the hard work of building a fair society off-world test the colony — and her.
Why it’s here: The continuing arc of Kowal’s Lady Astronaut, whose protagonist ages from young pilot toward the 63-year-old astronaut of the series’ origin story — a long view of one woman’s life in science and space.
