Earth is long behind them. Generations have lived and died aboard the starship en route to a distant, habitable planet. Now, as they finally near their destination, the question is no longer Can they survive the journey?—it’s Should they have made it at all?
In Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson delivers a breathtaking vision of humanity’s first interstellar voyage—complete with dazzling science, profound philosophical questions, and the quiet heartbreak of a society shaped by both hope and confinement. As systems begin to fail and the dream of colonization unravels, survival may depend on rethinking everything.
A masterwork from one of sci-fi’s most brilliant voices, Aurora is as intimate as it is epic—a story not just of reaching the stars, but of what we bring with us when we go.
