Cibola burn

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

Cibola burn

Author:

Corey, James S. A.

ISBN:

9780316217620

9780356504179

9780356504162

9780316334686

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Orbit, 2014.

Physical Description:

581 pages ; 25 cm

Series title(s):

Expanse ;

Number in series:

BK. 4.

Summary:

"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company which owns the official claim to the planet. Both sides will stop at nothing to defend what's theirs, but soon a terrible disease strikes and only Holden - with help from the ghostly Detective Miller - can find the cure"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Life on other planets -- Fiction.

Space warfare -- Fiction.

Genre:

Science fiction, American.

FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure.

FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera.

FICTION / Science Fiction / High Tech.

Science fiction.

Fiction.

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Summary

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. Now a Prime Original series.

HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES

Enter a new frontier.

" An empty apartment, a missing family, that's 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 humanity's 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.

The Expanse

Leviathan Wakes

Caliban's War

Abaddon's Gate

Cibola Burn

Nemesis Games

Babylon's Ashes

Persepolis Rising

Tiamat's Wrath

Leviathan Falls

Memory's Legion

The Expanse Short Fiction

Drive

The Butcher of Anderson Station

Gods of Risk

The Churn

The Vital Abyss

Strange Dogs

Auberon

The Sins of Our Fathers

Author Notes

James S.A. Corey is the pen name for a collaboration between Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. James is Daniel's middle name, Corey is Ty's middle name, and S.A. are Daniel's daughter's initials.

James' current project is a series of science fiction novels called The Expanse Series. They are also the authors of Honor Among Thieves: Star Wars (Empire and Rebellion).

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Interstellar gates, relics of a long-vanished civilization, offer access to a thousand star systems. Despite that bounty of planets, territory disputes still threaten the war refugees who fled to the safety of a world they call Ilus. Royal Charter Energy prefers to call it New Terra, and claims it under U.N. charter. Fearing the vast corporation's encroachment on their home, the colonists commit an act of terrorism that leads to a spiral of violence. Dispatched to rebuild the peace, spaceship captain James Holden is caught between two factions determined to win at any cost; worse, even as the local fauna turn on the humans, remnants of the force that exterminated an alien civilization are beginning to wake. Corey's splendid fourth Expanse novel (after Abaddon's Gate) blends adventure with uncommon decency. Even as hostile biochemistries vie with slumbering war machines for a chance to exterminate squabbling people, a spark of humor and hope suggests that despite ourselves, we might find a way to prevail. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

After the events of 2013's Abaddon's Gate, humanity has access to thousands of worlds outside our solar system, but that doesn't mean that the conflict between inner and outer worlders has ceased. On the lithium-rich planet of Ilus, a settlement established by a renegade ship of Belters puts them in direct opposition with an Earth-based corporation that was granted rights to the planet by the United Nations. The tension between the two groups has grown violent, and the UN sends James Holden and the crew of the -Rocinante to mediate the dispute. But the two groups will have bigger problems to face when a disease strikes settlers and company workers alike; in addition, the planetary activities seem to have awoken remnants of the protomolecule left behind on Ilus. VERDICT Combining an exploration of real human frailties with big sf ideas and exciting thriller action, Corey (pen name for authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) cements the series as must-read space opera. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.