And now, of course, we've got five planets there that we know of. Robinson: Of course, Alpha Centauri is close, but we know that its star is a little bit weird for us, and then Barnard's Star - very intriguing - often gets mentioned, and then Tau Ceti just because it's a solar analogue and it's nearby. : Why did you choose Tau Ceti as the destination star system? Try to take all the parameters and all the difficulties involved as seriously as I could and see what kind of story I got. So I thought it would make a good story to test out that thought and write down everything that I thought would happen as a sort of realism. It's a little questionable, why we want to do it. I think there's a certain craziness in it, or pointlessness - the point seems to be religious, and having to do with species immortality or something like that. I don't think people will try it until they are really feeling quite competent in the solar system, and then it will become kind of a religious act. "Aurora" is a story that I wanted to tell to kind of test out that thought. In "2312", I began to make the case that although the solar system is in our neighborhood, so to speak, and we can definitely visit it and set up scientific stations all over the solar system, that going to the stars - the new data about what we are as bodies (our bodies are biomes) - made me begin to question the starship project, begin to worry that the stars are simply too far away, even the closest ones. It's often seen as kind of a desperate act. Kim Stanley Robinson: More than once, there's been a group that headed off to the stars, and they disappear out of the story. Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the new sci-fi novel "Aurora." (Image credit: SFXFuture Publishing, Ltd.
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