Aurora (Paperback)
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Published: 07/04/2016
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'What a saga! Scifi with honest, complex humanity, physics, biology, sociology' - Tom Hanks

'Aurora is a magnificent piece of writing, certainly Robinson's best novel since his mighty Mars trilogy, perhaps his best ever' - Guardian

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.

Now, we approach our destination.

A new home.

Aurora.

Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.

'An accessible novel packed with big ideas, wonders, jeopardy and, at the end, a real emotional punch' SFX

'Aurora is Robinson's best book yet . . . Heart-wrenching, provocative' Scientific American

'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats' Sunday Times

Novels by Kim Stanley Robinson:

Icehenge
The Memory of Whiteness
A Short, Sharp Shock
Antarctica
The Years of Rice and Salt
Galileo's Dream
2312
Shaman
Aurora
New York 2140
Red Moon

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356500485
Number of pages: 512
Weight: 340 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 38 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A rousing tribute to the human spirit. - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

[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

Humanity's first trip to another star is incredibly ambitious, impeccably planned and executed on a grand scale in Aurora. - SPACE.COM

This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society. Robinson is an acknowledged sf master-his Mars trilogy and his stand-alone novel 2312 (2012) were multiple award winners and nominees-and this latest novel is sure to be a big hit with devoted fans of old-school science fiction. - BOOKLIST

A magnificent piece of writing . . . perhaps his best ever - Guardian

Another masterpiece of future-building from Robinson . . . compelling drama - Financial Times

The kind of speculation that he is quite brilliant at . . . Magnificent - Sunday Times

An accessible novel packed with big ideas, wonders, jeopardy and, at the end, a real emotional punch - SFX

Aurora is Robinson's best book yet . . . Heart-wrenching, provocative - Scientific American

The best book I read in 2015 - Cory Doctorow

This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game - Publishers Weekly - starred review

If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing - io9.com

Robinson creates an absolutely convincing population of generations yielding to generations . . . [A] near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological - NPR Books

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“"Life finds a way...."”

There's been a number of themes in Robinson's work that it feels like he's been honing ovethe years but if there's one that's always stuck out to me it's his unshakeable faith in life,... More

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