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A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. Corey's NYT -best-selling Expanse series, Strange Dogs follows a family of colonists on Laconia where a new generation of humanity struggles with the profound changes that come with making a home on an alien world. Now a Prime Original series. Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach.

The fifth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan. A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed.

The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Corey's NYT -best-selling Expanse series, The Vital Abyss is the secret history of the cataclysmic events that occurred on Eros station, and the revelation of what came after Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.

The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room.

Enter a new frontier. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave". The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets.

Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Timmy was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you.

Unless the authorities got to you first. On a future Earth beset by overpopulation, pollution, and poverty, people do what they must to survive. The Churn follows a crime boss named Burton as his organization is threatened by a new private security force tasked with cleaning up the city.

When the police start cracking down, Burton and his footsoldiers become increasingly desperate to find a way out. As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer.

When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier.

Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity's reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it.

Governor Rittenaur has come to bring civilization and order to the far outpost and guarantee the wealth and power of the Empire. But Auberon already has its own history, a complex culture, and a criminal kingpin named Erich with very different plans. In a world of deceit, violence, and corruption, the greatest danger Rittenaur faces is love. The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders.

In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E.

More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates.

But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. By: Dennis E. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace?

It's enough to make a torturer want to run - if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country.

Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. By: Joe Abercrombie. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1, solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck.

Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late.

She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: That sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed. By: N. Logen Ninefingers might have only one more fight in him - but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. The newly appointed Laconian captain Santiago Singh is unable to manage his idealism and military discipline as the governor of Medina Station and its rebellious population.

A second warship is sent to challenge the coalition of Earth-Mars hard-won planets. It has lots of action, great character detailing and many memorable moments. The storyline is riveting and keeps evolving fast which keeps the readers engaged and interested in the plot. The audiobook also delivers on plot-advancement and adds the much-needed momentum which was missing in the earlier installment. The storyline is coherent and moves forward rapidly.

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Holden is still a hopeless do-gooder. Bobbie is still a total badass. Avasarala is still a master maneuverer. I loved how we got to fall back into the old conversations and routines like no time has passed at all. This time, Persepolis Rising includes the perspective of Governor Singh, a young and inexperienced officer tasked to bring the rebellious inhabitants of Medina Station into the fold of the Laconian Empire.

Grossly underqualified for the job he must do, Singh is a tragic figure who engenders feelings of both dislike and sympathy due to his duo roles as severe authoritarian in public versus the loving family man he is in private.

Believing wholeheartedly in the Laconian cause, he will become the ruthless soldier he needs to be if it means securing a better future for his young daughter. Corey have managed to fire me up once again. View all 5 comments. Calling time of death on The Expanse. This series is far too inconsistent.

Feb 28, Gary rated it really liked it. Thirty years after defeating the Free Navy and negotiating and end to the various conflicts between the belters and the inner planets, the crew of the Roci is still doing work for hire for the organization that spawned from the ashes of the OPA.

Hovering at retirement age, Jim and Naomi agree to sell the ship to Bobby so they can enjoy their golden years together, just in time for the known universe to go sideways and shit all over their plans. This is the lead-in novel to what purports to be the final act of the series, which is set to conclude at nine books. The best of the superb series. What a fabulous book. Powerful, spare, poignant, full of hard sci-fi at a blistering pace. More than any other Expanse book, the authors here investigate deep and dangerous human motivations, and the nature of the Roci as a family after almost 40 years together first book occurs AD, this book about AD.

The book also delves deeper than any previous book into the human attraction to demagogues. As usual with my reviews, please Wow. Thank you. The main characters, thirty years on in life from the horrors and destruction of the previous book, Babylon's Ashes Note: You must read the books in order The family has bonded completely now, and aged and mellowed in so many good ways.

Bobbie and Amos show amazing expressions of growth and power as they have aged. I would say that this is their book, more than any others. We see her challenges gaining and losing and regaining this.

We see her bonds and competition with Amos even more clearly than before. We see her surprising deeper bonding with Alex. The authors subtle touch make this truly wonderful. Naomi is still his touchstone, his guiding star, but his bond to Clarissa has only deepened over the years, and now he must prepare and accept things he cannot control.

Amos is, in this book, the Amos we hoped he would become, even though we knew there would still be ragged edges and conflicts inside him. But we also find his inner purpose, his view of himself in balancing the family, his admiration and awe for the others' strengths. Poignant and wonderful. A true heroine, and Holden knows it and respects her completely. She remains beautiful and brilliant and full of heart, and shines in many places in the book.

His flaws of "Truth, Justice and Humanity without compromise" are understood by Naomi most clearly, but also by the others.

Even as these flaws drag the family into pain and struggle, they know he is their guiding light. Their love for each other, and Holden's certainties are the glue that has captured them and bound them all these years in spite of their own flaws. They understand this. Only Holden sees clearly how the ego-driven plans of Duarte as good as some parts of his philosophy are combined with the power of the proto-molecule will end in apocalypse. The adventure on Ilus in Cibola Burn has left Holden with a clear vision of the apocalyptic power of the technologies man has only found, not earned.

He's had 30 years to grow his philosophy of government, humanity, power and coercion. In many ways, the authors have created a power-mad Hitler, but with far more subtlety and magnetism, a far more seductive "enforcement of good social behaviour for the betterment of all mankind" megalomania.

This is a fine balance, and Duarte's dialogues in the book often disarm you, and pull you into "the ends justify the means". As I read, I wondered how so many Germans could get pulled into the Nazi message in the s. How could a madman like Hitler be elected? The starvation and chaos of the Weimahr Republic and The Great Depression, the yearning for security and safety, the desire to be respected as a people are all well-understood I'm thankful America's own elected madman is mostly an ineffectual dunce Some answers might be found here - The Fuehrer Myth, How Hitler Won Over the German People Duarte's failing, his "testosterone failing", is to imagine that his vision could be forced upon humanity under any circumstances and end in the result he desired.

One thing I wonder - view spoiler [In his meeting with Singh's widow at the end of the book, does the "investigative report" show that Duarte had Singh executed? Or does it lie? There was not a single time in the entire book where I felt I was being manipulated by a false-characterisation.

Not bad! The plot, action, science and politics - The pace is extraordinary, the plot is incredibly well-conceived, the science reasonably hard and delicious, and the politics quite adequate. So many plot elements arise from previous books, even all the way back to Leviathan Wakes. If the authors conceived way back then of the main plot of this seventh book, I must say I'm in awe.

To place story elements envisaged in into the overall conception of the ten book series is truly extraordinary.

Not just about power-and signal-routing protocols. To take care of each other. In its best light, it was what made humanity human. But he also had the dark suspicion that it was a kind of bargaining. Look, universe, see how kind and gentle and nice I am? Alex said. Political opposition considered as fractal geometry. Notes: 2.

I do love the clean, efficient prose here Wow, it's sooooo good to be back in the Roci family again. I love this family. The authors have done an exceptional job of imagining a man and a political structure that people would believe in, to the point of casually sacrificing millions of humans.

It's hard to call it fascist, but it sure is scary. Why come kick the table over? Testosterone, greed. The ruin of humanity, the death of our species. I love them all. As I read, I now see the young TV series actors' faces inside this book, replacing my originally imagined older faces from the previous books Aged 30 years of course for this book Not that the job would force him to be both of those men but that he was capable of being both.

That all it would take is a bit more pressure, and Santiago Singh would be a man who loved his daughter with all his heart and who also ordered genocides. Normal, star-strewn space could feel like an infinite ocean, vast and glorious and uncaring. View all 12 comments. Apr 19, Veronique rated it really liked it Shelves: r , stars Thirty odd years have gone since the events of book 6! A new threat appears, one which needed the time to develop and flourish, and would you believe it - it is human!

Will we ever learn? Probably not I actually read history. View 1 comment. Mar 07, Mike rated it it was amazing Shelves: science-fiction , epics , space-opera , reviewed. It is tough enough to write a series to a seventh book let alone writing a good seventh book. Corey would take the story. Turns out they decided to boldly go thirty years into the future, which is a pretty gutsy move in my book.

On the one hand this choice allowed the colonization effort to be greatly advanced, the rogue Martian fleet to develop their own society, and for new institutions to grow in t It is tough enough to write a series to a seventh book let alone writing a good seventh book. On the one hand this choice allowed the colonization effort to be greatly advanced, the rogue Martian fleet to develop their own society, and for new institutions to grow in the Sol system.

On the other hand, though, that is a large chunk of time to get the reader up to date on. New characters, new alliances, new conspiracies. It helps that two of the POV chapters are from characters that are high up in their respective new organizations.

I would say that Corey pulls the transition off very well. The story itself is great, even if our beloved characters are thirty years older. They are still their same old selves: Did you read my briefing on Freehold? Given that there was such a large time jump and so many new players it is not surprising that this book, as excellent as it is, serves mostly as a set up for the subsequent books. There are lots to recommend it excitement, plot twists, revelations, terrifying proto-molecule developments but it is very clear that this book set the table for a delicious feast in the next few books.

If you've been with the series this long you will greatly enjoy this installment. This book contains all the aspects that fans have come to love. From the return of beloved characters to the ever-growing world-building, this sequel delivers it all.

After a year away from the series, it was so easy to fall back into this engrossing story. Ret 4. Returning to this universe felt incredibly nostalgic.

The elements of diversity were seamlessly woven into narrative of this inclusive story. The world building continued to be easy to understand, yet epic in scope.

As always, this space opera story was immersive and highly entertaining. One of the biggest reasons I keep coming back to the series is to spend more time with these characters.

All the characters in this book were well fleshed out, complex, and completely compelling. This book is told primarily from four distinct character viewpoints, which each providing a unique perspective into the larger story. Two of the viewpoints were familiar characters, while the other two were new perspectives. All the major beloved characters made appearances within the course of this novel. While I am always biased towards reading about established characters, I also enjoyed reading from both the new characters, which provided must needed viewpoints in the story.

This book is set a fair ways after the events in Babylon's Ashes and, therefore, plays heavily on the themes of change and aging. At this point in time, we see how not only the ship, but also the crew of the Rocinante, are growing older.

They are no longer naive and impulsive. Instead, through the passage of time, we see how the characters have grown and matured As the seventh book in a nine book series, Persepolis Rising faced the challenges of being a mid-series book. The authors needed to balance writing an exciting self-contained plot while continuing to build towards the final larger climax.

This story had to bridge the gap between the previous book and also setup the sequence of events that will lead to the ending of the series. These factor made this book feel more like a transitional book in places. Compared to previous books, the plotting of this book felt a bit slower.

The politics between the planets, and other organizations played a larger role in this novel. Toward the second half of the book, the narrative did pick up with more action. The ending of this book had some particularly exciting events that certainly pulled me into the story. Persepolis Rising laid the groundwork for an incredible finale in the last two books.

I highly recommend that any fan of The Expanse book series or TV show hurry up and catch up on this series as soon as possible. I just know that James S. Corey will deliver an epic end to this grand space opera. I requested this one from Orbit Books. View all 11 comments. Jul 27, Justine rated it really liked it Shelves: releases.

And so many twists and turns! I was surprised as often as I wasn't, and the level of tension made it an exhilarating read.

The events of this book take place roughly thirty years after the events of the Free Navy Conflict of the previous novel. While the trinity of stupidity that is the Mars-Belters-Earth troika manages to destroy itself and humanity along with it, a new power has been quietly rising. Through the gates comes the Laconian Empire.