![]() ![]() Howrey combines realistic science fiction with fine interior portraiture the result is mesmerizing. While they’re “away,” the people they leave behind-Helen’s daughter, Sergei’s son, Yoshi’s wife-also have roles to play (“proud, happy, and thrilled,” as the astronauts’ wives put it in Apollo 13), despite their mixed feelings about the long separation. It’s the command performance of a lifetime (“The day Helen stops being tested is the day no one needs her,” she realizes at one point). However, before they can set off for the red planet, they’re assigned a long (year and a half) simulation of the mission, to take place on Earth under the observation of Prime staff. When private company Prime announces that it plans to put people on Mars, these three people are its first choice for a crew. ![]() ![]() Helen, Yoshi, and Sergei are all hyper-competent professionals, astronauts and engineers who’ve been to space and acquired a taste for it. In Meg Howrey’s The Wanderers,* three astronauts don’t go into space. ![]()
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