Aurora
Jul 2015 · Sold by Orbit
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From one of science fiction's most powerful voices comes Aurora, the incredible story of humankind's first voyage beyond the solar system.
"This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society." -Booklist
Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.
Now, we approach our new home.
AURORA.
"[Robinson is] a rare contemporary writer to earn a reputation on par with earlier masters such as Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke." -Chicago Tribune
"If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing." -io9
"[A] near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological." -NPR Books
"The Apollo 13 of interstellar travel." -SciFi
From one of science fiction's most powerful voices comes Aurora, the incredible story of humankind's first voyage beyond the solar system.
"This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society." -Booklist
Our voyage from Earth began g...
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106 reviews
Jephree Avalon
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July 12, 2015
I waited for this book for months. Super excited. But then reading it I just got upset. Pages and pages of a computer talking about math, the book isn't even about Aurora most of the time and it truly bothers me that they don't get to terraform Aurora. That these people being sent to a dead planet with water doesn't even make sense and you didn't know the planet didn't have vegatation until later on. Why does everything need to be dystopic?
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Jason Ragan
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January 26, 2016
I thought I was going to read one type of story, instead got another. There were some plot twists that changed the nature of the story rather dramatically. But some things were nicely depicted, including the sociology of the group. I've never been a fan of Robinson's narrative style but the worlds he brings are usually well thought out. Just a little disappointed because he promised a tapestry bigger than Mars but did not deliver that.
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Arthur Hagen
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September 22, 2015
From the Moses fable to revolution to surfing, this book has everything. Except good writing or a plot that makes half sense. Some feels like short stories and ideas that never got published, shoehorned into characters they don't fit. That this is by the same guy who wrote 2312 is hard to get.
About the author
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a ...
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