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Cibola Burn

by James S. A. Corey

A contested colony on a newly opened frontier

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A contested colony on a newly opened frontier

In this fourth Expanse novel, the opening of new worlds turns colonization into a struggle over who gets to settle and govern them. On Ilus, independent settlers face the power of a corporate-backed colony, while violence and the dangers of an unfamiliar world complicate efforts to establish a foothold. James Holden and the Rocinante crew are sent to mediate, but the conflict carries implications beyond the colony. Alongside the political and human dispute, the book raises a larger mystery: what happened to the civilization that once occupied Ilus, and what destroyed it?

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers following the Expanse series and its continuing cast and setting.
  • For science-fiction readers interested in colonization, competing claims to power, and conflict on a new world.
  • For readers who enjoy a human political dispute paired with questions about an ancient alien civilization.

Themes

Colonization and competing claims to landCorporate power and settlementConflict and diplomacyThe remains of an extinct 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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The Sins of Our Fathers​
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