Leviathan Falls
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4.7 • 1.4K 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 biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series.
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred 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.
In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.
As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win. But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat.
"Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin
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
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In the stunning final installment of the Expanse science fiction saga, the long war is coming to an end, but the struggle to save humanity has just begun. Underground fighters have struck a fatal blow against the interplanetary empire ruled by the ruthless Winston Duarte, bringing countless planets closer to freedom. But the falling regime still has some teeth, and a different and almost incomprehensible foe has emerged, threatening to wipe out loyalists and rebels alike. In the epic conclusion to James S. A. Corey’s Hugo Award–winning series, the tension and action are explosive, with massive battles, intergalactic politics, and a scientific mission racing against time to understand this new enemy. If you like nonstop action, read the thought-provoking space opera behind the hit TV series The Expanse.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, writing as Corey, stick the landing in their spectacular ninth and final Expanse space opera (after Tiamat's Wrath), set in a future where humanity has begun to expand beyond the solar system. For decades, human communities on a number of planets have been subject to the rule of the Laconian Empire—but its ruler, Winston Duarte, is no longer in control after a failed experiment that he'd hoped would grant him immortality, but instead changed him into something other than human. Meanwhile, the extraterrestrial threat to mankind remains, heightened by the discovery that the ancient alien intelligences that created the ring gates that enable intergalactic travel were themselves wiped out by something even more powerful. Reluctant hero James Holden is again committed to doing whatever he can to protect and unite humanity, aided by his crew on the Rocinante, who each face painful choices on the way to the gut-punching conclusion. Multiple perspectives—including that of a ruthless antagonist—create empathy with each member of the scrappy cast without ever slowing the pace or oversimplifying the interstellar intrigue. This fully satisfying resolution renders the entire series an all-time genre classic.
Customer Reviews
Great and only got better
I loved the series and wish they had finished the TV shows as well. The Expanse really made the characters real and invited you to stay in that universe and I’m sad it is done, but was surprised and loved what happened with Amos. Somehow, and I think it is just the feeling that I got from Farscape, the original Star Wars.
The Last Novel in the Expanse Series (#9)
“Leviathan Falls” is the ninth and final novel in the Expanse Series by “James S. A. Corey.” This novel concludes the main storyline, although there is a novella set after this one. It has been a long journey with this story and these characters, but this novel does wrap up everything in an appropriate manner. I think the Dedication to the novel says it best:
“Nine books later and you’re still here, so this one’s for you.”
This novel is set after the fall of the Laconian Empire, and while this force has fallen it is by no means powerless. It’s High Counsel emerges from his stupor, and sets off on an unknown mission of his own. Meanwhile, mankind goes about its own messy and unpredictable business. The crew of the Rocinante are lying low, because they have a new crew member, the High Counsel’s daughter. Amos is and is not quite himself after having been killed, and subsequently “repaired” with alien technology. Linda and James are just happy to be alive and be together again. Alex finds out he’s a grandfather, and is very moved by this news.
Unfortunately, there’s a bigger threat to humanity than just itself. The alien forces from outside the universe are stirring. They killed the protomolecule builders, and now they are coming for mankind. Can humanity put aside its differences and face this extinction-level threat?
The Expanse ends much as it began, and the title of the first and last books is a tribute to this. The ending is bittersweet, but satisfying and completely appropriate for the characters and for the narrative. There’s even a hopeful epilogue, just to end things on a brighter note. It’s been a good series, and I realize I put off reading the last novel because I didn’t want it to end. It’s been a good story though, and I enjoyed it a lot.
Awesome
Great wrap for the best sci-fi story in history