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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.
Notes
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Aurora Rising was tenth in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction with 14,457 votes.
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- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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“Something Here Is Completely, Horribly, Unnaturally Wrong” : Uncanny Vegetation in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s Aurora Rising
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 207-226)'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)
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Review : Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
23464932
2020
single work
review
— Review of Aurora Rising 2019 single work novel ; Aurora Burning 2020 single work novel'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)
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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.
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[Review] Aurora Rising
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 121 2019;
— Review of Aurora Rising 2019 single work novel
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[Review] Aurora Rising
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 121 2019;
— Review of Aurora Rising 2019 single work novel -
y
Review : Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
23464932
2020
single work
review
— Review of Aurora Rising 2019 single work novel ; Aurora Burning 2020 single work novel'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)
-
y
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.
-
“Something Here Is Completely, Horribly, Unnaturally Wrong” : Uncanny Vegetation in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s Aurora Rising
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 207-226)'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)
Awards
- 2022 nominated Sakura Medal (Japan) — English High School Books
- 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2020 shortlisted Indie Awards — Young Adult
- 2019 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Novel
- 2019 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Novel
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