![]() ![]() So I found the novel enjoyable and thought-provoking, and never slow-moving. ![]() I would distinguish the pace of the action, which was sometimes slow, from the pace of the invention (action, ideas, and style) which is always engrossing. The range of knowledge mobilised in this novel is encyclopaedic, but I never found the story dull. I have now begun reading RED MARS and I am already coming across many of the same concepts that AURORA develops in more concentrated form. I had never read any of Kim Stanley Robinson’s books before AURORA, and I think that it a good introduction to his work. Perhaps it should be called “speculative fiction” in the sense of half science fiction and half philo-fiction. Supposedly “hard-science” sf: hard for the accurate description of the constraints of space travel, but it also contains "soft-science" elements that add a lot of interest to the story. ![]() The narrator is excellent, and makes the book even more enjoyable. This is a very involving story, and very intelligent writing. ![]()
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