Aurora
On sale
7th April 2016
Price: £9.99
John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 2016
Genre
‘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
‘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
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Reviews
[Robinson is] a rare contemporary writer to earn a reputation on par with earlier masters such as Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke.
Aurora is Robinson's best book yet . . . Heart-wrenching, provocative
Humanity's first trip to another star is incredibly ambitious, impeccably planned and executed on a grand scale in Aurora.
This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game
The kind of speculation that he is quite brilliant at . . . Magnificent
Another masterpiece of future-building from Robinson . . . compelling drama
If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing
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.
The best book I read in 2015
A magnificent piece of writing . . . perhaps his best ever
A rousing tribute to the human spirit.
An accessible novel packed with big ideas, wonders, jeopardy and, at the end, a real emotional punch
Robinson creates an absolutely convincing population of generations yielding to generations . . . [A] near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological