Aurora [Paperback]

From one of science fiction's most powerful voices,Auroratells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.

Kim Stanley Robinson is aNew York Timesbestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, andLocusawards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimedForty Signs of Rain,The Years of Rice and Saltand2312. In 2008, he was named a Hero of the Environment byTimemagazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California. A rousing tribute to the human spirit.
San Francisco Chronicle The thrilling creation of plausible future technology and the grandness of imagination...magnificent.
Sunday Times [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 IfInterstellarleft you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing.
io9 Auroramay 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 Humanity's first trip to another star is incredibly ambitious, impeccably planned and execulă#