New York 2140

A rousing tribute to the human spirit. San Francisco Chronicle on Aurora If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing. io9 on Aurora Aurora may well be Robinson's best novel...breaks us out of our well-ingrained, supremely well-rehearsed habits of apocalypse - and lets us see the option of a different future than permanent, hopeless standoff. Los Angeles Review of Books on Aurora [A] heart-warming, provocative tale. Scientific American on Aurora 2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solar system in ways no one has envisioned before. Whether comparing the compositions of Beethoven to those of skylarks and warblers, or describing a life-threatening sunrise on Mercury, Robinson fills 2312 with joy and exuberance, danger and fear, and the steadily mounting suspense of a mystery that spans the planets. This is the finest novel yet from the author who gave us the Mars Trilogy and GALILEO'S DREAM. An amazing accomplishment. Robert Crais In his vibrant, often moving new novel, 2312, Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. [...] Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, 2312 is a treasured gift to fans of passionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page. LA Times Massively enjoyable --The Washington Post New York 2140 truly is a document of hope as much as dread. --Los Angeles Review of Books In this both heartening and dismaying vision of a peri-apocalyptic world, human greed (of course) is the villain, to which the only counteragent is the tenacity and resolve of the human spirit. --Financial Times The tale is one of adventure, intrigue, relationships, and market forces.... The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read. --Booklist A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding, written with a cleareyed love for the city's past, present, and future. --Kirkus Robinson has established himself as the great humanist of speculative fiction. --Village Voice The thriller Robinson unspools in that flooded city is gripping on its own merits. But it's the radical imagination of the book that makes it so hard to put down. --Business Insider As much a critique of contemporary capitalism, social mores and timeless human foibles, this energetic, multi-layered narrative is also a model of visionary worldbuilding. --RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!) An exploration of human resilience in the face of extreme pressure...starkly beautiful and fundamentally optimistic visions of technological and social change in the face of some of the worst devastation we might bring upon ourselves. -- The Conversation Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation. --Guardian Relevant and essential. --Bloomberg Businessweek New York may be underwater, but it's better than ever. --The New Yorker 2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solar system in ways no one has envisioned before. Whether comparing the compositions of Beethoven to those of skylarks and warblers, or describing a life-threatening sunrise on Mercury, Robinson fills 2312 with joy and exuberance, danger and fear, and the steadily mounting suspense of a mystery that spans the planets. This is the finest novel yet from the author who gave us the Mars Trilogy and Galileo's Dream. An amazing accomplishment. --Robert Crais This is hard SF the way it's meant to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society. Robinson is an acknowledged SF master-his Mars trilogy and his stand-alone novel 2312 (2012) were multiple award winners and nominees-and this latest novel is sure to be a big hit with devoted fans of old-school science fiction. --Booklist on Aurora p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Calibri; color: #323333; -webkit-text-stroke: #323333} span.s1 {font-kerning: none; color: #000000; background-color: #fffefe; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #000000} span.s2 {font-kerning: none} Robinson is a guarded optimist who wants readers to imagine both the possibilities of utopian change and the difficulties of achieving it. --Science on New York 2140 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The tale is one of adventure, intrigue, relationships, and market forces.... The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} --Booklist on New York 2140 -Aurora may well be Robinson's best novel...breaks us out of our well-ingrained, supremely well-rehearsed habits of apocalypse - and lets us see the option of a different future than permanent, hopeless standoff.---Los Angeles Review of Books on Aurora Inherently epic stuff... expect interplanetary strife, conspiracies, more big ideas than most SF authors pack into a trilogy... [yet] this is ultimately in so many respects a book about Earth... a wise and wondrous novel --SFX on 2312 In his vibrant, often moving new novel, 2312, Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. [...] Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, 2312 is a treasured gift to fans of passionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page. --LA Times Robinson's extraordinary completeness of vision results in a magnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which social and biological changes keep pace with technological developments. --Publishers Weekly on 2312 Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is, exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game. --Iain M. Banks on 2312 This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society. Robinson is an acknowledged sf master-his Mars trilogy and his stand-alone novel 2312 (2012) were multiple award winners and nominees-and this latest novel is sure to be a big hit with devoted fans of old-school science fiction. --Booklist on Aurora This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson at the top of his game... [A] poignant story, which admirably stretches the limits of human imagination. --Publishers Weekly on Aurora [A] heart-warming, provocative tale. --Scientific American on Aurora [A] near-perfect marriage of the technical and the psychological. --NPR Books on Aurora Humanity's first trip to another star is incredibly ambitious, impeccably planned and executed on a grand scale in Aurora. --SPACE.com on Aurora Aurora may well be Robinson's best novel...breaks us out of our well-ingrained, supremely well-rehearsed habits of apocalypse - and lets us see the option of a different future than permanent, hopeless standoff. --Los Angeles Review of Books on Aurora If Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that longing. --io9 on Aurora [Robinson is] a rare contemporary writer to earn a reputation on par with earlier masters such as Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke. --Chicago Tribune on Aurora The thrilling creation of plausible future technology and the grandness of imagination...magnificent. --Sunday Times on Aurora A rousing tribute to the human spirit. --San Francisco Chronicle on Aurora [A] heart-warming, provocative tale. Scientific American on Aurora A rousing tribute to the human spirit. San Francisco Chronicle on Aurora