I'm just trying to save up enough to book passage to Ceres. When I got back here, government dropped me on my ass. 'Ganymede,' the man said, nodding and looking off with an attempt at nobility. His body had the hallmarks of a childhood in low g: long body, large head. 'You wouldn't have a little spare change for a veteran, would you?' ' 'Scuse me,' a man's phlegmy voice said. It was astounding, Bobbie thought, how quickly humanity could go from What unimaginable intelligence fashioned these soul-wrenching wonders? to Well, since they're not here, can I have their stuff? The bridge builder had opened the way, and no great gods had come streaming through. Whatever had built the protomolecule and fired it toward Earth back in the depths of time wasn't answering calls anymore. Here was another image of an unfamiliar sun, circles to mark the orbits of new planets. New data had come in from the probes that had gone through the gates. The graphic that zoomed in and out beside him was enough for her to follow. The screen above the seats across from her showed a newsfeed, but the speakers were broken, the man's voice too fuzzed to make out the words. Everything that humanity had spread to, a thousand times over. And that something killed it.Ī thousand worlds, Bobbie thought as the tube doors closed. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.Īnd the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. 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. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth.

Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. 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. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.' Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. ' An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. The fourth book in the NYT 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.

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