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"Aurora" de Kim Stanley Robinson
Que livro espantoso! Brilhante, épico, inteligente e provocador! Este é, de longe, o melhor livro que li este ano e passa a ser um dos meus livros favoritos de sempre.
Apesar de ter lido o livro em Inglês (o livro é muito recente - publicado em 7 de Julho de 2015 - para ter uma tradução para Português; aliás não conheço nenhum livro de KSR que tenha sido traduzido para Português), vou deixar aqui os meus comentários em Português, para tentar entusiasmar a grande co ...more
Que livro espantoso! Brilhante, épico, inteligente e provocador! Este é, de longe, o melhor livro que li este ano e passa a ser um dos meus livros favoritos de sempre.
Apesar de ter lido o livro em Inglês (o livro é muito recente - publicado em 7 de Julho de 2015 - para ter uma tradução para Português; aliás não conheço nenhum livro de KSR que tenha sido traduzido para Português), vou deixar aqui os meus comentários em Português, para tentar entusiasmar a grande co ...more

AH man, KSR at his best. Very enjoyable hard sci-fi / space opera. Ark ship, colonisation, tons of fascinating science, as only KSR can do. Intricate balances of culture, biology, orbital mechanics and human engineering their way out of tight corners. I loved the main character Freya and especially loved the Ship (who made a really cool narrator for bits of it). Half way through i realized that no matter how madly it ends it would have been worth it. And the ending was nice, despite some reviewe
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Aurora is a strange beast. It's a weird mixture of hard and soft science. But it leans more on the hard, and honestly, that's the toughest to write. Because you have to balance accurate science with characters and places that people enjoy reading.
The characters were SO uninteresting. This seems mostly due to the narrator. I won't give anything away, but that choice of narrator almost guarantees a minimum of characterization. It was a gamble that didn't pay off.
The story is only mildly interest ...more
The characters were SO uninteresting. This seems mostly due to the narrator. I won't give anything away, but that choice of narrator almost guarantees a minimum of characterization. It was a gamble that didn't pay off.
The story is only mildly interest ...more

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