Aurora

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A full-time book nerd who works in publishing for her day job, Thea currently resides in Astoria, Queens with her partner and rambunctious cat. Perhaps the story would have been better served for the author to re-visit his earlier trilogy habit. Every step of the way, the worst case scenario is presented as the only possible outcome, and this is all built on the premise that the people who devised the means of sending people out to distant star systems are so blinded by selfish idealism that they wouldn't have accounted for such problems before embarking on such an enormous undertaking.

The Data Subject also has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent Supervisory Authority, i.Born into Evangelical trailer trash poverty, Aurora finds her way into an elite prep school where she’s drawn into a circle of girls who form a Surrealist coven.

Which would be okay if interesting things were happening, but possibly because I didn't care about the characters, I couldn't bring myself to care about what they were doing, either. I thought maybe KSR was attempting something interesting with narrative voice and plot–how does a limited colony integrate the cognitively disabled when everything is calculated, almost down to the last molecule? I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley with no promise of a favourable review. I'm just not sure how I can say how much I love the narrator without giving away a few secrets along the way, so I'm just going to forewarn you. A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.However, although Aurora can be read as a stand-alone novel, it gains through a knowledge of the previous books in the series. I tried to stay patient, though character and language are two components key to keeping me intrigued. NASA engineers are currently leading the way in developing the kind of sustainable living technology that can achieve such a goal.