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Caliban's War (The Expanse) Paperback – June 26, 2012

by James S. A. Corey (Author)

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Book 2 of 8 in the Expanse Series

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The second novel in James S. A. Corey's SF New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television 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 . . .

Caliban's War is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Leviathan Wakes.

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"This breakneck tale will have readers itching for book three."―Publishers Weekly

"Caliban's War is even better than Leviathan Wakes. It's old-fashioned space opera, the kind of SF that I cut my teeth on, a real page-turner set in a vividly imagined solar system... superlatively written."―George R.R. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones

"A worthy sequel to Leviathan's Wake. Compelling characters and a plot that combines political intrigue with military sf create a memorable story that begs for film adaptation."―Library Journal

"Tense and thrilling"―SciFi Now

About the Author

James S.A. Corey is the pen name of fantasy author Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. They both live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Find out more about this series at www.the-expanse.com.

Series: The Expanse (Book 2)
Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Orbit; First Edition edition (June 26, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316129060
ISBN-13: 978-0316129060
ASIN: 0316129062
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.6 x 9.2 inches
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- #286 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #376 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Science Fiction

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Nikolas P. Robinson

Somehow The Series Keeps Getting Better

April 5, 2016

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Since Amazon is inexplicably tethering Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate together where reviews are concerned as if they are different formats of the same book, I am just going to post the two of them together here.

Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (really Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) picks up not altogether too long after the final, captivating events of Leviathan Wakes and it smoothly carries on with the story of the relatively near-future narrative that is The Expanse.
The absence of Miller from the story is made up for in large part by a Holden who has become more like the detective than he would have thought possible judging by how harshly he had criticised Miller's methodology and personality during the first novel. This internally conflicted characteristic makes Holden a more interesting and substantial protagonist than he was in the first book though it does produce some difficulties on board the Rocinante.
Fans of the television show would be gratified to see Chrisjen Avasarala finally making her appearance in the literary version of The Expanse. Though she is more vulgar in the book than in SyFy's adaptation, the core of the character is there...a ruthless and often cold political force to be reckoned with who manages to compartmentalize her personal and professional lives with impressive skill.
The new characters added into the narrative are well-developed and easily as interesting as those from the first novel, which is something I hope they can keep up through the additional books in this series (including the ones as yet unwritten).
It says something about the intense and dangerous nature of the events unfolding in this book that an alien biological machine terraforming Venus according to entirely unknown programming takes a backseat in the minds of the characters and that same dismissal carries over to the reader...at least until the end, when it can no longer be ignored.
I am very much looking forward to reading the next installment after the way this one ends and I am even more so looking forward to seeing how the television adaptation will tackle things as the events of this book make it onto the screen during either the latter portion of season two or the beginning of season three depending on how they put everything together.

Abaddon's Gate takes The Expanse series through the first tentative steps toward becoming a full-fledged, interstellar space opera. From this point on in the series, humanity will no longer be confined to the solar system we're all too familiar with and the surrounding void between our local system and other stars.
This is, surprisingly, the first time religion really gets brought into the books...and there is quite a bit of it, as well there should be. This is a series of novels that is largely predicated on first contact, and that would damn well shake up religious thought all over the world. Not only are we dealing with first contact, but first contact with an unknown species that was around billions of years before we came down from the trees and who have the ability to manipulate matter and energy in ways we have only ever imagined possible. We stumbled upon something truly alien to us, waiting out at the edges of our solar system and disastrously attempted to weaponize it because, of course we would...we're notoriously short-sighted and impulsive when it comes to thinking up ways to kill one another in real life and the odds of that changing over the hundreds of years separating us from the fictional future of The Expanse are pretty slim...and if none of this had an impact on us as far as theology is concerned, these books would require far too much suspension of disbelief.
By the time Abaddon's Gate starts off, there is a giant ring structure (assembled on Venus by an alien intelligence before lifting from that planet's surface) between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, looming there and just waiting for us to cross the threshold...and it stands to reason that Holden would be one of the first to cross over into somewhere truly awe inspiring in what it represents.
Along with the novelty of having a religious perspective tossed into the mix we get a whole new cast of characters to populate the narrative since Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are the only major ones carried over from the previous novels into this one...and none of them feel like throwaway bit parts, which is something the authors have excelled at so far through the series.
This third volume of the series answers a number of questions that have been collecting since the first novel, but it certainly adds just as many new ones that will hopefully be just as exciting to answer in reading what follows.

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It was quite easy to fall back in with the crew of the Rocinante. Truth be told I missed them.

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Man, it feels good to be back. Been a little over six months since I finished the first book if I remember correctly, but I fell right back into it and felt right at home. There's a feeling I got while reading Leviathan Wakes that is somewhat hard to describe, but the best I can explain it is that it just felt real. The characters have this sense of reality and purpose to them. Their actions have weight. They have their own desires and quirks, their own attitudes and senses of humor.. and so it was quite easy to fall back in with the crew of the Rocinante. Truth be told I missed them.

I knew from the first book, however, that those characters are worthy of praise. So I must also mention how much I enjoyed the new ones. Prax, Bobbie, Avasarala (I mean who doesn't love a badass grandmother with a potty mouth?). All just wonderful. My only (very minor) complaint would be that at times, especially nearing the end, the pace of the book felt somewhat skewed. It almost felt as if it was moving too fast. Which is admittedly an odd complaint, typically a complaint would come from a slower pace. I'm thinking the slow build of my previous read (The Way of Kings) affected my pacing meter a little bit. However, as I said, it was a very minor complaint. And I nearly forgot all about it after that excellent ending. I'm a major sucker for a good ending. Especially one of the cliff hanger variety that raises super interesting questions for the series moving forward, as this one did. Major props to Daniel and Ty for creating another gripping installment.

So, another five stars for The Expanse. Simply put it's the best space drama that I know about. And hopefully I'll soon know more like it because this series rocks. For now though.. book 3!

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No cardboard cutouts need apply, real people with their backs against the wall fighting for their lives

July 21, 2018

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Book 1 of this series,Leviathon Wakes,saw Captain James Holden and his crew struggle against the odds to help civilization survive the invasion of a ancient protomolecule sent from a far off civilization. Their world is set in our solar system a few centuries in the future,while highly developed with colonies scattered throughout the system they have not yet developed interstellar travel. Three main factions,Earth,Mars, and the Outer Planets(including the asteroid belt, various moons, and other heavenly bodies) compete for power. A fragile peace between all three was broken in the scramble to control the invasive technology of the protomolecule and by book's end it seemed that the good guys and girls had barely managed to stuff the genie back inside its bottle. As Caliban's War opens we realize no such luck. A weaponized version of the protomolecule has reignited the system wide war and once more Holden and his crew have the good/bad luck to be in the middle with a chance to do something about it. We have lost a character or two from book 1 but they are more than replaced by the debut of three quite appealing new players. As usual James S. A. Corey's strength is in drawing fully fleshed,believable characters that are easy to root for(or against as the case may be). Book 1 was released in 2011 and the ninth full length episode,Tiamat's Wrath,is due out by the end of 2018 with one more book scheduled after that to finish off the series. The Expanse series is arguably the most influential release in space opera of this decade and has been flattered in its world building by being widely copied in the genre. Book 2 is just as delightful as book 1 and is some of the better space opera I've had the pleasure of reading.

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