Aurora kim stanley robinson review5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() This essay is a follow-up to a review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel Aurora by Gregory Benford, which critically examines the case that Robinson makes in the book that ‘no starship voyage will work’ (Chapter 7) – at least if crewed by humans. ‘Ever since they put us in this can, it’s been a case of get everything right or else everyone is dead. ![]() Stephen Baxter does such a good job of introducing the issues and the authors of the essay below that I’ll leave that to him, but I do want to note that Baxter’s novel Ultima is just out (Roc, 2015) taking the interstellar tale begun in 2014’s Proxima in expansive new directions.īy Stephen Baxter, James Benford and Joseph Miller The issues it explores are a touchstone for the widening debate about our future among the stars, if indeed there is to be one. And a good thing, too, for this tale of a human expedition to Tau Ceti is turning out to be one of the most controversial books of the summer. I haven’t yet read Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel Aurora (Orbit, 2015), though it’s waiting on my Kindle. ![]()
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