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By Kim Stanley Robinson

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$29.00 CAD

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  1. Hardcover $26.00 $29.00 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
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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.

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

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.

Now, we approach our new home.

AURORA.

Genre:

  • "A rousing tribute to the human spirit."
    San Francisco Chronicle on Aurora
  • "The thrilling creation of plausible future technology and the grandness of imagination...magnificent."
    Sunday Times on 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 on Aurora
  • "If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing."
    io9 on Aurora
  • "Aurora may well be Robinson's best novel...breaks us out of our well-ingrained, supremely well-rehearsed habits of apocalypse - and lets us see the option of a different future than permanent, hopeless standoff."
    Los Angeles Review of Books on Aurora
  • "Humanity's first trip to another star is incredibly ambitious, impeccably planned and executed on a grand scale in Aurora."
    SPACE.com on Aurora
  • "The Apollo 13 of interstellar travel."
    SciFi
  • "[A] near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological."
    NPR Books on Aurora
  • "[A] heart-warming, provocative tale."
    Scientific American on Aurora
  • "This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game... [A] poignant story, which admirably stretches the limits of human imagination."
    Publishers Weekly on Aurora
  • "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 on Aurora
  • "Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is, exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game."
    Iain M. Banks on 2312

On Sale
Jul 7, 2015
Page Count
480 pages
Publisher
Orbit
ISBN-13
9780316098106

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Kim Stanley Robinson

About the Author

Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed 2312, Shaman, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He traveled in Antarctica twice, courtesy of the US National Science Foundation. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.

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