Kamas Kirian's Reviews > The Lady Astronaut of Mars

The whole time I was reading this my mind kept screaming at me "the timeline makes no sense". I think this story was supposed to evoke the golden age of Science Fiction, but it fell flat for me. Had it actually been written in the '30's or '40's it might have worked. Punch card computers, a Kansas space program after DC gets obliterated by an asteroid, full colonies established on both Mars and Venus, and worrying about the political will to continue such programs two or at most three decades later? When stars are just a fairy tale to the children of earth because of all the dust still in the atmosphere? The timing just didn't add up to me and kept me from really buying into this story. It did make me feel sad for Nathanial and Elma, but that's about it. I have no idea how this won a Hugo.

The eBook was formatted well with no obvious errors.