The novel “Aurora” by Kim Stanley Robinson was published for the first time in 2015.

The Ship is approaching the Tau Ceti system, where the more than two thousand passengers plan to establish a new colony, following the plans begun by their ancestors some 160 years earlier. The leading candidate for colonization is the large moon of one of the system’s planets, which was named Aurora.

Freya is a teenager who sees what is intended to become her new home getting closer. She also sees the problems that, among other things, are progressively affecting the Ship’s biomes since her mother, the unofficial chief engineer, is called upon to solve all the Ship’s major problems.