Book description
A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling, and moving narrative
Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominatedā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked The Falling Sky as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Scottish astronomer and novelist Pippa Goldschmidt mixes astronomy and fiction in her novel.Ā The book provides insight into the way that astronomy is carried out now in modern, remote, mountain-top observatories and in space (I can vouch for its verisimilitude).Ā Jeanette is a young, lonely, junior researcher working in a university department dominated by male egos and incompetents.Ā She puts academic politics and unsatisfactory affairs aside and travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile for her research, making an unexpected discovery that throws her into conflict with her colleagues. Like her love life, her scientific life spirals out of herā¦
From Paul's list on with fictional female astronomers.
If you love The Falling Sky...
The Rosewood Penny
2023 Queer Indie Award Nominee!
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictiveā¦
Want books like The Falling Sky?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Falling Sky.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,343
readers submitted
so far, will you?
š If you like The Falling Sky, you might also like...
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman
Kate from Jules et JimĀ meets I Love Dick.
A young woman filmmakerās journey of self-discovery, set against a backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, we follow Ana Fried as she faces the ultimateā¦
Malcolm Before X
Malcolm Before X is about finding a way to continue moving forward after everything has been taken from you. While in prison, Malcolm Little discovered the power of reading and found a way to transform his character and become a better man. This half-biography focuses on that transformation, especially hisā¦
