Interstellar Dreams: Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Famed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson is back with Aurora, a cautionary tale about just how difficult interstellar travel may be.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there space fans it's Matt with a special invitation for you Tuesday
0:05.0	March 8th at 7 p.m. Pacific time that's when I'll host a planetary radio live
0:10.7	webcast that we're calling all these worlds, our expanding solar system.
0:16.3	My guess at KPCC's Southern California Public Radio will be The Planet Nine Guys from
0:21.5	Caltech, Mike Pluto Killer Brown and Constance. the by Bill Nye the Science Guy. The show is sold out but will be streaming live
0:34.7	video from both planetary.org and KPCC.org. I hope you'll join us. Again it
0:41.5	begins at 7 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday March 8th here is
0:46.2	this week's show Kim Stanley Robinson and
0:49.6	Interstellar Dreams this week on planetary radio.
0:55.0	Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
1:02.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, ready this time to
1:05.2	make some of you a bit crazy. Kim Stanley Robinson published Aurora last year. It is a sweeping story of
1:13.4	interstellar pioneers and an instructive fable
1:16.9	illustrating in sometimes tragic detail
1:19.7	just how hard it will be to reach the stars.
1:23.4	Bill Nye is all in for space, but he questions whether what's needed
1:27.9	should be called a Renaissance.
1:30.1	We begin with the senior editor for the Planetary Society, Emily Lockwollup.
1:35.2	Emily, we've at least mentioned in passing a few times in the past that you're working on a book
1:40.6	and you have an update about that. It's a part of a February 26 blog entry
1:45.8	that offers much more but tell us what's the status.
1:48.9	When I sat down to write this book
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