Robinson takes a blowtorch to the idea of interstellar travel - not just the material concerns, which take up the majority of the book, but the idea itself, the idealism that fuels it. The humans soon face famine and experiment with an untested form of cryogenic freezing, which is largely successful.

This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society. Freya’s rapport with the people becomes all the more important when things go wrong, and as a group, all of them must face the harsh reality and decide on the best course of action to ensure their own survival. Now, I try really hard NOT to compare an authors books to each other (unless it’s a series), each story is thier own world. During its long life, Ship has seen fifteen thousand humans (and even more animals, and many, many more bacterial and microbrial life forms) live and die in its rings, spires, and biomes.Inspired by Greek mythology, described as “remarkable” by MOJO and “heavenly” by NME, the album landed at No.

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.In the year 2545, a starship crafted by human hands began its voyage from the Solar System to nearby star, Tau Ceti, just 14 light years away.