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Welcome to the OT for The Expanse series of novels by James S. A. Corey! This is a separate thread from the OT for the live-action adaptation airing on Syfy Channel for us book readers.
If you're a TV show watcher wandering into here, be aware this thread will have spoilers for the book series up until Babylon's Ashes, the latest release. Publisher blurbs for the books in this OP will be UNMARKED (except for Persepolis Rising, which will be spoiler tagged until the book releases).
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About the Author
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Main Books in The Expanse:
Leviathan Wakes [June 15, 2011]
Caliban's War [June 26, 2012]
Abaddon's Gate [June 4, 2013]
Cibola Burn [June 17, 2014]
Nemesis Games [June 2, 2015]
Babylon's Ashes [December 6, 2016]
Persepolis Rising [December 5, 2017]
Book 8 [TBA 2018]
Book 9 [TBA 2019]
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The Expanse Novellas and Short Stories [eBooks unless otherwise specified]:
The Butcher of Anderson Station [October 17, 2011]
Gods of Risk [September 15, 2012]
The Churn [April 29, 2014]
Drive [July 9, 2015]
A prequel short story that can be read for free here.
The Vital Abyss [November 15, 2015]
Strange Dogs [July 18, 2017]
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If you're into them, all novels and novellas have been released as audio books. Jefferson Mays is the narrator for all novels (except Cibola Burn) and the novella The Vital Abyss. Erik Davies is the narrator for Cibola Burn and the first two novellas that were released (Gods of Risk and The Churn).
Official sites:
http://www.jamessacorey.com/
If you need a quick recap of any of the first five books, this will get you covered. (courtesy of lightus)
If you're a TV show watcher wandering into here, be aware this thread will have spoilers for the book series up until Babylon's Ashes, the latest release. Publisher blurbs for the books in this OP will be UNMARKED (except for Persepolis Rising, which will be spoiler tagged until the book releases).
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About the Author
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Main Books in The Expanse:
Leviathan Wakes [June 15, 2011]
Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.
Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.
Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations - and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.
Caliban's War [June 26, 2012]
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.
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
Abaddon's Gate [June 4, 2013]
For generations, the Sol 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 space beyond.
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. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.
Cibola Burn [June 17, 2014]
An empty apartment, a missing family, thats creepy. 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 humanitys home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.
Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth.
James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.
And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.
Nemesis Games [June 2, 2015]
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. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.
And as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.
Babylon's Ashes [December 6, 2016]
A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.
The Free Navy a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.
James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.
But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny, and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinantes problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.
Persepolis Rising [December 5, 2017]
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.
In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.
New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity -- and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever.
Book 8 [TBA 2018]
Book 9 [TBA 2019]
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The Expanse Novellas and Short Stories [eBooks unless otherwise specified]:
The Butcher of Anderson Station [October 17, 2011]
Gods of Risk [September 15, 2012]
The Churn [April 29, 2014]
Drive [July 9, 2015]
A prequel short story that can be read for free here.
The Vital Abyss [November 15, 2015]
Strange Dogs [July 18, 2017]
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If you're into them, all novels and novellas have been released as audio books. Jefferson Mays is the narrator for all novels (except Cibola Burn) and the novella The Vital Abyss. Erik Davies is the narrator for Cibola Burn and the first two novellas that were released (Gods of Risk and The Churn).
Official sites:
http://www.jamessacorey.com/
If you need a quick recap of any of the first five books, this will get you covered. (courtesy of lightus)
