Chaucer’s Books will host acclaimed screenwriter and Santa Barbara resident David Koepp for an in-store launch of his new book AURORA on Tuesday, June 7 at 6 p.m. Koepp, who is also a director, is the ninth top grossing screenwriter in all of film (JURASSIC PARK, JURASSIC PARK: THE LOST WORLD, CARLITO’S WAY, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, PANIC ROOM, WAR OF THE WORLDS, ANGELS AND DEMONS, and the recent HBO film KIMI among others).

AURORA: A NOVEL

“Forget a good night’s sleep. Aurora is epic, but personal and poignant, horrifying and darkly funny, and flat-out suspenseful.”—Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Find You First

From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family.

In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.

Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.

Across the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother, Thom. A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security.

But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckonings—which not everyone will survive . . .

Aurora is suspenseful storytelling—both large scale and small—at its finest.

Praise For…

“Forget a good night’s sleep. Aurora is epic, but personal and poignant, horrifying and darkly funny, and flat-out suspenseful.”
— Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Find You First

“With Aurora, David Koepp has firmly staked his ground as one of the best thriller writers working today. Come for the mind-blowing concept of a massive geomagnetic storm that wipes out nearly every power grid on Earth, stay for why this book truly soars—characters you’ll love, breakneck-pacing, and the question we’re all wrestling with in these wild, modern times: what happens when life slips out of our control?”
— Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion

“David Koepp’s Aurora contains two great narratives on a collision course. When, where and how they collide will you keep you turning pages right up to The End.”
— Brian De Palma

“There’s a reason David Koepp is the most successful screenwriter of all time. It’s because he’s one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Aurora is up there with his best: scary, funny, and thought provoking. Buy it immediately.”
— Scott Frank, writer and director of The Queen’s Gambit

About the Author

David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter who’s written more than two dozen feature films in a wide variety of genres, including the first two Jurassic Park films, Death Becomes Her, Carlito’s Way, The Paper, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, Panic Room, War of the Worlds, Angels and Demons, Inferno, and Kimi. Some of the films he’s both written and directed are Stir of Echoes, Secret Window, Ghost Town, and Premium Rush, the latter two co-written with John Kamps. Koepp is also the author of the novel Cold Storage.

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