Unabridged Audiobook
Simply excellent!
Headlines: Unusual Feminist scientists Legacy Take them to the stars, before evil comes and kills them all. Honestly, it's rather hard to describe this story but it was a rather brilliant series starter taking my love of sci-fi and combining it with a thriller. It was mostly set in the period of 1940's with Mia and her mother but it had a retrospective view over the 99 previous generations of women and their daugthers with the sole purpose of getting the human civilisation to the stars. These women weren't exactly human. This was a sometimes gory, banter-ish story that gripped me to my headphones mostly over one weekend. At first, I had to go with the flow but I found my nerd-feet rather quickly and began to understand the facets of these women. They were excellent mathematicians and they were obsessed with rockets. Men were an important part of their lives but only to a point. I loved how feminist this story felt but at the same time, I'm not saying that how the men were sometimes treated was okay but it was an interesting upside down perspective for that historical era. There were ecological undertones to the story too which didn't quite get explained in this installment but I'm hoping for more embelishment on the next book. This curious tale bought my allegiance to the series before half way through and I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series. I can't recommend the audio enough. It was a multi-cast narration with multiple POVs (but not too many). You even get some Slyvain Neuvel at the end with background research should your nerd-dom need that. Thank you to Penguin Audio for the review copy
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