The Calculating Stars

Finally, after years of returning most books unfinished to the library, I've found a book that I actually made efforts to sit down and read, and dragged around in my purse for spur of the moment opportunities.

I love the space race of the 50s and 60s, the Mercury 13, stories of the beginning of rocket science (some very weird), and the beginnings of our technology advances. Although I don't ever remember there being anything in my home state of Kansas that remotely resembled something that could be mistaken for rocket creation, launch sites, and mission control centers... just the Triton missile silos and the traveling warheads.

Around this were alot of subjects for contemplation; discrimination of sex and race, some insight to being Jewish after World War 2, and an earth-changing catastrophe.

I'm crossing my fingers the sequel is just as appealing.