I read both The Calculating Stars and its sequel The Fated Sky this month and loved them. Congratulations! It also won the Nebula and Locus awards. J.The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal just won the 2019 Hugo award for best novel.
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (1977). 
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973). 
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (1972). The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969). The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny (1966) Here Gather the Stars (aka: Way Station) by Clifford D. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1959). They'd Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (1955). The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1953). James Nicoll praised Kowal for being willing to include historically accurate racial and gender issues. Publishers Weekly considered it "outstanding," with Elma's personal life "provid(ing) a captivating human center to the apocalyptic background." The Calculating Stars won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. The threat accelerates efforts to colonize space and leads to Elma joining the International Aerospace Coalition in its attempt to reach the Moon and then Mars. In the aftermath, the mathematician and former Women Airforce Service Pilots pilot Elma York calculates that the resulting climate change will make the planet uninhabitable within 50 years. Shortly after President Thomas Dewey leads the United States to victory in the space race in 1952, a meteorite strikes the Chesapeake Bay, obliterating most of the Eastern Seaboard. It is the first book in the " Lady Astronaut" series and is a prequel to the 2012 short story " The Lady Astronaut of Mars". The book was published by Tor Books on July 3, 2018. 
The Calculating Stars is a science fiction novel by American writer Mary Robinette Kowal.
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