*AN INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program, about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. She is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, easygoing even when the stakes are high; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As they become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love–this time among the stars.

テイラー・ジェンキンス・リードは、激動の時代に個の情熱を刻む名手です。本作は80年代の宇宙開発を舞台に、知的好奇心と愛の境界を壮大に描写。ジョアンの歩みは、宇宙という鏡を通じて自己を問い直す痛切な探求に満ちており、その内省的な筆致は読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 映像版ではシャトルの圧倒的な迫力が補完されていますが、原作は言葉にできない心の機微を深く掘り下げます。視覚的昂揚と小説の重層的な心理描写が響き合うことで、限界に挑む人間の崇高さがより際立つのです。両メディアを味わう体験は、星々の彼方にある真実を鮮明に照らし出すでしょう。