Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora is a big book, and while I enjoyed it, it was nowhere near my favorite among his works. I think Doctorow is a better judge of it than I, though. His words (example: "This is a novel that turns much of sf on its ear") make me appreciate the book much more, especially its place in the distant-space-travel subgenre within science fiction.
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I have Robinson's Mars trilogy to read in my SF pile. Have you read it? So sorry to hear you've suffered a loss of a friend.
Yes, the Mars books are definitely worth reading -- I tend to skim the very science-oriented parts, but I've read them probably three times.
My friend was a woman just about exactly my age... she had a pulmonary embolism.
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