Aurora book kim stanley robinson6/20/2023 ![]() We see most of the story from the perspective of one family. Seven generations of people have been born and died on the ship since it launched, with the current human population being around two thousand. The ship has been travelling for 159 years and is roughly a decade out from reaching its target, a potentially habitable moon orbiting the fifth planet in the Tau Ceti star system, some 12 light years from Earth. ‘Aurora’ comes from the same vein of realistic space exploration stories, focusing in this case on the travails of the colonists on-board a generation starship heading to a nearby star in one of humanity’s earliest attempts at manned interstellar travel. For anyone who doesn’t already know his work, Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the most well-respected living authors of hard Science Fiction in the world, perhaps most famous for his detailed depiction of the process of colonising another planet in his award-winning ‘Mars’ trilogy (1992-1996). ![]()
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