Out now: AURORA!

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.

Now, we approach our new home.

AURORA.


As of today July 7 2015, Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel, Aurora, is out! (hardcover, ebook, audiobook)

The first two reviews are from none other than Gerry Canavan in the Los Angeles Review of Books: "The Warm Equations" -- along with reviewing Neal Stephenson's Seveneves -- and it's relatively as spoiler-free as possible...

Aurora traces the story of one of the
generation starships flung out from the solar system during the
Accelerando, Robinson’s alternative name for the prophesied
technological Singularity. In previous books these launches have always
been something of a dead end: those explorers journey (as he says in 2312) “beyond human time, beyond human reach” into “a vastness beyond comprehension,” outside history itself. [...] I think Aurora may well be Robinson’s best novel.

...and from Gary K. Wolfe for the Locus of July 2015.

Podcasting duo Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan also did an extensive interview with Stan for Coode Street here.

We are delighted to be able to present what is one of the first major
discussions about this extraordinary new novel, which we think will
prove to be one of the standout SF novels of 2015.

Stan also talked to the Verge ESP podcast, here.

More material -- and KSR tour! -- as it becomes available.

(banner image from Coode Street)

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Published on July 07, 2015 14:35
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message 1: by Henrik (new)

Henrik Mohr Hi Kim!

Thanks for the best hard sci-fi book I've read since The Black Could by Fred Hoyle!!

If/when they make a movie out of Aurora, which I hope someone will do eventually, I think Spaces by Nils Frahm would be the perfect background music for some of the deep space/ship scenes:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KGSPA...

And no, I'm not in any way affiliated with the artist ;)

I've bought The Years of Rice and Salt, which is no. 2/3 on my to-read list.

Keep up the fantastic work, can't wait to read your other books! :)

Kind regards,
Henrik


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