A review by erichart
Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson

4.0

Robinson applies the attention to technical and scientific detail he's showed in his Mars trilogy to the problem of sending a generation starship to colonize other worlds. Main character Freya and the ship's AI provide enough humanity to keep the novel from being the dry technical exercise it could have been in the hands of a lesser author. I could have done with more resolution to some strands of the plot, not everything is fully answered. As any novel of ideas should, the ending leaves plenty to discuss and analyze, as Robinson shifts from the theme of exploration to wider, more wide-ranging environmental issues of life on our own planet and the place of intelligent species in the universe.