Aurora Audiobook

Quotes

• "[A] heart-warming, provocative tale.”

  — Scientific American

• “[A] compelling plot, with its near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological and with its (mostly) endearing cast of characters…and the absolutely delightful and radically essential ship computer itself.”

  — NPR

• "Aurora…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

• “This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game…admirably stretches the limits of human imagination.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A compelling…argument against those who still dream of an interstellar manifest destiny.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “This is hard SF the way it’s mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society.”

  — Booklist

• “Ali Ahn narrates the many dense and fascinating passages with the clipped and dispassionate tone of a computer—a style that makes complete sense since the story’s main character is ‘The Ship’s’ computer…Sci-fi at its best.”

  — AudioFile

• 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

• 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

• Robinson's extraordinary completeness of vision results in a magnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which social and biological changes keep pace with technological developments.

  — Publishers Weekly on 2312

• In his vibrant, often moving new novel, 2312, Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. [...] Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, 2312 is a treasured gift to fans of passionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page.

  — LA Times

• Inherently epic stuff... expect interplanetary strife, conspiracies, more big ideas than most SF authors pack into a trilogy... [yet] this is ultimately in so many respects a book about Earth... a wise and wondrous novel

  — SFX on 2312