A review by jacksontibet
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

4.0

Kim Stanley Robinson seems to get it in the way most don't: the Earth is it. Ever since homo sapiens started spreading totalitarian agriculture like a swarm of locusts we've been on a collision course with our own extinction. So it's fresh air to read a sci fi book that doesn't worship at the altar of some misconstrued idea that humans are supposed to leave the planet to find/embrace our destiny or some silly nonsense. And in fact, Robinson's thesis is the opposite: we, like every other species, are wholly dependent on our mother for survival.