Fiction

It's a follow-up to "The Calculating Stars". The set-up is that the East Coast of the U.S. is almost completely destroyed in 1952 by a meteor strike in the Chesapeake Bay, which pushes the Space Program into fast forward, as scientists realize that the long-term after-effects will kill most life on Earth. Initially there's a meteor winter that lasts for five or so years, then a greenhouse effect takes hold and will make the planet uninhabitable in time, although the time frame is never quite specified.

The narrator of both books is a woman with a PhD in math, married to the chief engineer of the space program. The issues of racism and sexism are very much front and center in the books. She wrote the first one before "Hidden Figures" was published, but the author knew about those women.

On a personal note, I keep a book list and read 117 books last year.