![]() ![]() On board are ~2100 humans who are the seventh, and final, generation of an eventual settlement expedition that will land and live on Aurora. Well, in reality it didn’t go wrong but at the same time Aurora certainly didn’t meet my expectations nor the praise heaped on it by the writer of the article referenced (I wish I could find it again).Īurora is Kim Stanley Robinson’s melancholic and ambitious tale about a generational seed ship on its final leg of a 160 year journey to an Earth analog planet which is actually a moon of a larger planet orbiting the star Tau Ceti, 11.9 light years from Earth. At the time I was partially through Seveneves and found it a brilliant piece of speculative fiction. I picked it up after reading an article that opined if there were two science fiction books you read in 2015 they had to be Seveneves and Aurora. ![]() Full disclosure: Aurora is the first Kim Stanley Robinson book that I’ve read. ![]()
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