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'The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch . . .
A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem–that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.
NOBODY PANIC.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'Australian authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s 2019 young adult space adventure Aurora Rising features several unsettling representations of plants. These do not just serve to create suspense but also to address questions concerning the relationship between humanity and nature. Approaching the plant horror elements in the novel from a postcolonial ecoGothic perspective enables engagement with the underlying anthropocentric bias of Aurora Rising and its entanglements with imperialist ideologies. Based on selected close readings, this chapter argues that the novel eventually does not critique exploitative (neo-)colonial-expansionist ways of thinking but perpetuates them by pitting two imperial powers (humans vs aliens) against each other. This fight leaves other living beings caught in the crossfire, reducing nature in the novel to a mere battleground against which a Cold War-like quest for dominance takes place.' (Publication abstract)
Review : Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
23464932
2020
single work
review
'Following their bestselling trilogy The Illuminae Files, Australian powerhouses Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff turn the world upside down in their newest series, The Aurora Cycle. Here, they bring us ‘not the heroes we wanted, just the ones we could find’.' (Introduction)
Best Books of 2019
Angela Crocombe
(presenter),
Leanne Hall
(presenter),
2019
18804805
2019
single work
podcast
interview
'In the third episode of the Readings Kids Podcast, Leanne and Angela do a whistle-stop tour of their favourite books of the past year. This episode also includes a bonus interview with YA author Will Kostakis about his new fantasy book, Monuments.'
Source: Soundcloud.
Review : Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
23464932
2020
single work
review
'Following their bestselling trilogy The Illuminae Files, Australian powerhouses Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff turn the world upside down in their newest series, The Aurora Cycle. Here, they bring us ‘not the heroes we wanted, just the ones we could find’.' (Introduction)
Best Books of 2019
Angela Crocombe
(presenter),
Leanne Hall
(presenter),
2019
18804805
2019
single work
podcast
interview
'In the third episode of the Readings Kids Podcast, Leanne and Angela do a whistle-stop tour of their favourite books of the past year. This episode also includes a bonus interview with YA author Will Kostakis about his new fantasy book, Monuments.'
Source: Soundcloud.
'Australian authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s 2019 young adult space adventure Aurora Rising features several unsettling representations of plants. These do not just serve to create suspense but also to address questions concerning the relationship between humanity and nature. Approaching the plant horror elements in the novel from a postcolonial ecoGothic perspective enables engagement with the underlying anthropocentric bias of Aurora Rising and its entanglements with imperialist ideologies. Based on selected close readings, this chapter argues that the novel eventually does not critique exploitative (neo-)colonial-expansionist ways of thinking but perpetuates them by pitting two imperial powers (humans vs aliens) against each other. This fight leaves other living beings caught in the crossfire, reducing nature in the novel to a mere battleground against which a Cold War-like quest for dominance takes place.' (Publication abstract)
