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"[A] heart-warming, provocative tale.”
— Scientific American
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“[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
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"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
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“This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game…admirably stretches the limits of human imagination.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“A compelling…argument against those who still dream of an interstellar manifest destiny.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“This is hard SF the way it’s mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society.”
— Booklist
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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