These “warp-drives” enable space-exploration, colonisation and warfare to become simply galactic expansions of what humans did on the Earth. Science fiction traditionally overcomes the inherent boredom of long distance space travel by inventing faster-than-light technologies. So I will endeavor to do exactly the same in this brief review, limiting my comments to mostly arguing that this is an excellent novel which is somewhat of a return to form for Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction after the disappointing and confusing 2312. One of the surprising things I found while reading Aurora, is that all the reviews I had read managed to not give away the central plot twist to the whole novel. These reviews were first published in his blog, Resolute Reader. Martin Empson is the author of Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History. Three novels by Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora is monumental and Shaman is a great evocation of the past, but New York 2140 understates both the climate crisis and the solutions needed
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