![]() He has won all the major genre awards, and The Atlantic says that he is “the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing.” His Mars Trilogy is a contemporary masterpiece. Kim Stanley Robinson has become one of the most reliable, scientifically robust, and impressive modern science-fiction authors. You know the reading experience has been worthwhile when you feel you’ve learned something, either factually or conceptually and Aurora offers both types of learning. In an effort to carve out more reading time for myself, I invested in the latest Kindle model, to remove every last disincentive from reading. This was my second attempt to read Aurora. So it’s been a joy to ravenously consume the latest offering by Kim Stanley Robinson, an epic tale of interstellar travel. As I’ve aged, fewer books can draw me in so completely. You know that feeling –sneaking minutes on the bus, in the toilet, in bed, in between work tasks– anything to get that next little hit of sweet narrative. ![]() It’s been a while since I’ve been able to totally immerse myself in a novel. ![]()
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