Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky once said, "The soil is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." Kim Stanley Robinson takes this idea as the premise of his current novel "Aurora, and "which chronicles a 200-year space voyage outside of our solar system. For Robinson,contemplating the journey was both technical and emotional. Several generations would live and die on the spaceship. Robinson says the story turned into a "prison novel." He talks with Steve Paulson approximately his vision for science fiction and for humanity.
Source: wnyc.org