Aurora
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4.0 • 46 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson (Shaman) at the top of his game. Freya and her parents live aboard a starship that has traveled for generations and will soon reach Tau Ceti, a star about 12 light years from Earth's solar system. Freya's mother, Devi, is the de facto chief engineer, struggling to keep the ship's environment balanced until they reach a new world and, they hope, survive on it. But ecologies are delicate, resources are limited, and the laws of physics are immutable. Over the course of Freya's life, her community faces genuinely surprising struggles for survival, leading Freya to wonder whether it is too late to reconsider a question initially decided millions of miles away and centuries ago: should this ship have been launched in the first place? As always, Robinson is at his best when dealing with large populations, scientific questions, and logistics, and the very human characters are more than afterthoughts. Even an occasional lapse into preaching about the philosophical problems with space exploration can't mar this poignant story, which admirably stretches the limits of human imagination.
