

"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." Robinson is an acknowledged sf master-his Mars trilogy and his stand-alone novel 2312 (2012) were multiple award winners and nominees-and this latest novel is sure to be a big hit with devoted fans of old-school science fiction." "This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society. poignant story, which admirably stretches the limits of human imagination." "This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game. " near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological." "Humanity's first trip to another star is incredibly ambitious, impeccably planned and executed on a grand scale in Aurora." "Aurora may 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." "If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing."

" a rare contemporary writer to earn a reputation on par with earlier masters such as Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. "The thrilling creation of plausible future technology and the grandness of imagination.magnificent."
