AURORA

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.

Robinson's 2312, with its complexity and challenging conceptual framework, served as a fitting reimagining of Clarke's 2001 for our time. Robinson explores our future in space from a different angle in AURORA, and brings to it some far-reaching ideas, but roots them in a storyline filled with real people wrestling with their hopes, fears, and dreams. He brings the classic SF concept of a multi-generational starship to new life, using the best science of our day and projecting it into the future, in practical terms, with fascinating — even startling — results. The spaceship is a grand metaphor for the Earth we live on; its workings and fate, lovingly detailed, provide a provocative glimpse into our own condition. With a new TV series for his Mars trilogy in the works, Robinson's take on the future is getting some well-deserved exposure.

AURORA
Deutsch von Jakob Schmidt
[PB Heyne 11/16]