![]() ![]() The novel does an excellent job through most of the narrative as a template for how an AI, or anyone else, might learn how to write a novel. Thus, Aurora tells the story of Freya and the rest of the ship’s arrival at Tau Ceti, and the ultimate return of some of its passengers back to Earth, primarily filtered through the ship AI’s attempt at constructing a narrative of those events. of the ship, a quantum computer who is on the verge of sentience, and is tasked by Devi to make sense of the story of the journey to the moon Aurora. And Devi is intimately connected to the A.I. ![]() ![]() She’s the daughter of Devi, the best engineer on the ship, a respected leader who is almost single-handedly ensuring the success of the mission of the ship in its final years of its long journey across interstellar space. (Note:This review atypically spoils a lot of the book as it is a virulent reaction to a lot of the elements in the book I could not otherwise discuss.)įreya is a young woman who lives on a generation starship headed toward Tau Ceti on a mission of colonization. In Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson writes what aspires to be the definitive colonization-by-generation-starship novel, with an emphasis and focus on the implausibility and folly of such a scheme. ![]()
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