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Cibola Burn

by James S. A. Corey

A new frontier under pressure

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Awards & Recognition

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    New York Times bestselling series

    The metadata describes The Expanse as a New York Times bestselling series; Cibola Burn is identified as its four...

AlbakiReads Editorial

A new frontier under pressure

On Ilus, the opening of new worlds turns colonization into a contest over who gets to settle—and govern—them. Independent settlers face a powerful corporate colony, while violence against scientists threatens to widen the conflict beyond the planet. James Holden and the Rocinante crew arrive with a mandate to make peace, but the mission is entangled with clues about the vanished civilization that once inhabited this world. The book brings political conflict and an older planetary mystery together within the larger Expanse series, making Ilus both a contested home and a place marked by an unresolved past.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following the Expanse series, of which this is the fourth book.
  • Science-fiction readers interested in frontier colonization, corporate power, and conflict over settlement.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining political tensions with the mystery of an ancient civilization.

Themes

Colonization and settlementCorporate power and political conflictThe legacy of a vanished civilization

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Book overview

With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.

The fourth book in the New York Times 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.


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.

"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


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