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Aurora
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bookshelves: read-2016, sword-and-laser, science-fiction, audio-book, author-male
Apr 21, 2016
bookshelves: read-2016, sword-and-laser, science-fiction, audio-book, author-male
Executive Summary: An interesting premise, but I found the execution uneven, and I'm not really sure the point of the ending. There were parts I really enjoyed, just not as many as I'd like.
Audiobook: Ali Ahn does an excellent job with this book, especially the parts of the ship. She definitely adds a little something extra that makes the audio a great option in my opinion.
Full Review
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of those authors whose been on my radar that I just never got around to. I'm not sure if this is the best book to do as his first or not. I found the writing to be quite polished. You can certainly tell he's been at it for awhile.
I also really like how he tells the story from the perspective of the ship. It's not done in the same way as Ancillary Justice, but it did add something to the story for me being told this way.
The book centers around a generation ship on it's way to colonize another system. It's probably considered hard sci-fi, but I'd put it somewhere between that and space opera. You get into the science a bit at times, but mostly it's about the issues facing a generation ship, and attempting to colonize an alien environment.
There were parts of the story I really enjoyed. I liked Freya acting as our camera as she explored the ship and the different cultures that lived there. I also really liked the middle parts dealing with the colonization stuff, and exploring a new world.
However, things kind of slowed down for me at times throughout, but especially towards the end. I've seen people say this book could have been ended at an earlier point, and get what they mean. I'm not sure if that would have better, or if there had simply been less time spent on the final arc of the book.
Overall, I liked this book and I'm glad I read it. I'll consider picking up another book by Mr. Robinson at some point, but I'm not in a rush to do so. I'd really like to read another book about a generation ship, but one that is more focused on that idea and ideally more space opera than hard sci-fi.
Audiobook: Ali Ahn does an excellent job with this book, especially the parts of the ship. She definitely adds a little something extra that makes the audio a great option in my opinion.
Full Review
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of those authors whose been on my radar that I just never got around to. I'm not sure if this is the best book to do as his first or not. I found the writing to be quite polished. You can certainly tell he's been at it for awhile.
I also really like how he tells the story from the perspective of the ship. It's not done in the same way as Ancillary Justice, but it did add something to the story for me being told this way.
The book centers around a generation ship on it's way to colonize another system. It's probably considered hard sci-fi, but I'd put it somewhere between that and space opera. You get into the science a bit at times, but mostly it's about the issues facing a generation ship, and attempting to colonize an alien environment.
There were parts of the story I really enjoyed. I liked Freya acting as our camera as she explored the ship and the different cultures that lived there. I also really liked the middle parts dealing with the colonization stuff, and exploring a new world.
However, things kind of slowed down for me at times throughout, but especially towards the end. I've seen people say this book could have been ended at an earlier point, and get what they mean. I'm not sure if that would have better, or if there had simply been less time spent on the final arc of the book.
Overall, I liked this book and I'm glad I read it. I'll consider picking up another book by Mr. Robinson at some point, but I'm not in a rush to do so. I'd really like to read another book about a generation ship, but one that is more focused on that idea and ideally more space opera than hard sci-fi.
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Reading Progress
April 21, 2016
– Shelved
April 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
to-read
April 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
read-2016
April 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
sword-and-laser
April 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
April 23, 2016
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Started Reading
April 23, 2016
– Shelved as:
audio-book
April 26, 2016
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82.0%
April 27, 2016
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100.0%
"There are parts of this book I really enjoyed, but there were parts I found slow or boring. And I'm not really sure the point of the last part. Proper review to come this weekend."
April 27, 2016
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Finished Reading
August 8, 2016
– Shelved as:
author-male
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May 01, 2016 03:49PM
The Red Mars trilogy has a lot of the same flaws. Overall a good series, but some parts that are pretty slow, especially the parts spent traveling across Mars in a rover.
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