The novel “The Clockwork Rocket” by Greg Egan was published for the first time in 2011. It’s the first book of the Orthogonal trilogy.

Yalda lives on a farm but that environment is too limited for her curiosity. Luckily for her, her father had promised her mother to send her to school so Yalda can to get a education higher than her relatives’. Eventually, she even manages to become a university teacher but life isn’t easy for her.