Caliban's War
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4.6 • 2K Ratings
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Publisher Description
With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.
The second book in the New York Times bestselling 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. Now a Prime Original series.
We are not alone. 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 . . .
Hugo Award Winner for Best Series
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Corey (a joint pseudonym for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) returns to the politically charged future solar system setting of Leviathan Wakes for a sprawling space opera thriller. Eighteen months have passed since the now defunct corporation Protogen tried with horrifying results to harness an alien molecule with the power to rearrange living and inanimate matter. The planet Venus is now infected with the molecule, which may be controlled by an extra solar system intelligence. The shaky d tente among Mars, Earth, and the Outer Planets Alliance shatters after aliens attack Earth and Mars forces on Ganymede, making it look like Earth was the aggressor. Capt. James Holden, lately of the OPA, joins up with a botanist on Ganymede whose missing toddler might be the key to this new incident, while U.N. diplomat Chrisjen Avasarala and Martian soldier Bobbie Draper try desperately to avoid interplanetary war. This breakneck tale will have readers itching for book three.
Customer Reviews
Better than the first
Perhaps it was the lack of a character like Miller and the focus on Holden’s crew for the most part but this one just appealed to me a lot more than the first book. At first Avasaral‘s story took me out of the book and bored me, but she grew on me and became a great character. Definitely a great sequel.
Awesome!!
Amos is the MVP of this story for me! I thoroughly enjoyed his relationship with Prax. This book was just as awesome as the first and the ending absolutely floored me!!
Great
Another awesome adventure in the Expanse universe. I love the hard sci fi feel these books bring. There’s no warp drive or light speed and space travel has serious consequences. This book picks up our favored crew along with some key players in Bobbie and Avasarala both playing key parts and driving a lot of the story. I’m also fascinated with the political edge added in with OPA, Mars and the UN and seeing it through a UN reps eyes. The OPA isn’t a big players in this novel but I’d be surprised if they didn’t have a bigger influence in future books. Highly recommend