Aurora

I waited for this book for months. Super excited. But then reading it I just got upset. Pages and pages of a computer talking about math, the book isn't even about Aurora most of the time and it truly bothers me that they don't get to terraform Aurora. That these people being sent to a dead planet with water doesn't even make sense and you didn't know the planet didn't have vegatation until later on. Why does everything need to be dystopic?

I thought I was going to read one type of story, instead got another. There were some plot twists that changed the nature of the story rather dramatically. But some things were nicely depicted, including the sociology of the group. I've never been a fan of Robinson's narrative style but the worlds he brings are usually well thought out. Just a little disappointed because he promised a tapestry bigger than Mars but did not deliver that.

From the Moses fable to revolution to surfing, this book has everything. Except good writing or a plot that makes half sense. Some feels like short stories and ideas that never got published, shoehorned into characters they don't fit. That this is by the same guy who wrote 2312 is hard to get.