Average Bufph Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
James S. A. Corey
2012-06-26
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
After thoroughly enjoying Leviathan Wakes, I dove right into the second book of The Expanse series and wasn't disappointed. The authors continued to deliver the same compelling blend of hard science fiction and political intrigue that hooked me in the first book. The introduction of new characters, particularly Bobbie Draper, added fresh perspectives to the story while maintaining the complex relationships between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. However, I found some of the middle sections dragged a bit more than I would have liked, and while the protomolecule storyline was intriguing, it occasionally felt like it overshadowed the character development that made the first book so engaging for me.
