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James holden expanse1/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. 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. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. " An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. James holden expanse series#HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES Enter a new frontier. Original article on the Book "Originally published in hardcover by Orbit: June 2014"-Title page verso.īook Synopsis The fourth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. "Everything we built has been pointing towards a moment at the end of book nine - and I'm looking forward to having all the dominoes that we've set up do their thing."Įmail Sarah Lewin at or follow her Follow us, Facebook and Google+. ![]() "Everything we have been promising since the first book, and we set up in the third book, and we pushed forward in the fifth book, and we created the structures for in the sixth book, they're all the things we need to have in place to draw the story to a close in books seven, eight and nine," Abraham added. "We always talk about this series in terms of spanning the time between late Apollo 13 and early Buck Rogers, and we're now edging into the parts of science fiction that are more exotic and more science fictional and wilder," Abraham said. When asked what they're looking forward to sharing with readers in the long term, both authors said "the ending." The series will ultimately span nine books, and so the creators are nearing the home stretch and have to plot carefully to make sure everything leads up to a final, planned moment. "We wrote all of this before the election, so it wasn't even pointed," Abraham said. Throughout the story, readers will see Holden try to communicate what it's like in distant parts of the solar system during the everyday times, rather than solely during crisis, to try and create human connections among the different populations. But the idea of what it is they need to know has changed radically." He comes to this one with the idea that, yes, you just tell people what they need to know, and they'll make the right decisions. "We've been tearing him down and complicating him and having him grow more and more morally - not even gray, but baroque. They'll make the right decisions, because people are basically good,'" Abraham said. "In the first book, was all about, 'Give people the information and let them make their decisions. And he keeps doing that, but takes a … subtler tack. Unlike Prax, Holden has taken a very active role throughout the series, leaking information and trying to effect change across the solar system. "That's something that came up several times in the book, the way that people have effects on each other and never know, never get to find out what the effect of their work was." "Prax has this little line that goes through this that shows you part of the story that nobody else is seeing and informs the part of the war and the connections in it that no one person has their eyes on all the time," Abraham said. The authors also revisit Prax, the chief botanist on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, who searched for his daughter in the second novel, "Caliban's War." Abraham said that Prax proved one of the most difficult to write because of the way his story wove in with everyone else's. … And I think the end of her story is one of the things that's going to surprise the fans, too, where that all ends up." The pirates have only ever been bad guys. Unlike anyone that's been a point-of-view character before, she's a hard-core OPA freedom fighter. "Michio Pa is a character we've never written before, unlike any character we've written before," Franck said. Pa features in the third book in the series, "Abaddon's Gate," as well as the novella "The Vital Abyss." But although readers have seen her before, there's never been a character viewpoint quite like hers, the authors said. "That's not something we've done before, and it's probably not a thing we're really likely to do again, but it was cool for this one," Abraham said.Īmong those viewpoints is a familiar character: Michio Pa, a member of the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), which purports to be a government for the people of the asteroid belt. ![]()
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