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| Title | : | Caliban's War (The Expanse #2) |
| Author | : | James S.A. Corey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 595 pages |
| Published | : | June 26th 2012 by Orbit (Hachette) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
James S.A. Corey
Paperback | Pages: 595 pages Rating: 4.34 | 90252 Users | 5186 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | Caliban's War |
| ISBN: | 1841499900 (ISBN13: 9781841499901) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Expanse #2, The Expanse (Chronological) #2 |
| Characters: | James "Jim" Holden, Roberta "Bobbie" Draper, Chrisjen Avasarala, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal, Amos Burton |
| Setting: | Ganymede |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2012) |
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Ratings: 4.34 From 90252 Users | 5186 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Caliban's War (The Expanse #2)
Way back in 2012 I listened to the audiobook of Leviathan Wakes, and loved it. It was awesome. And then I picked up a nasty case of "Series Blah" which left me in this emotional hinterland between wanting to continue the series because I really loved the first book, and dreading to read it because either it wouldn't live up to my expectations, or it would be so awesome that I would need more and there was no more to be had, at the time. Now I have read it... and I was kinda right on all counts.Leviathan Wakes was one of my great reads this year (review: http://carols.booklikes.com/post/3263... ). It broke into my reading blahs and set off a trend of great reads. After finishing, I promptly placed a library request for Calibans War, out of general interest and just the tiniest bit of series OCD. When it arrived, I was in the middle of monthly reads for my book club, then all hell broke open over at Goodreads, resulting in a loss of reading mojo, quickly followed by reviewing mojo.
We readers can be a cruel, vicious pack of jackals, sniffing out a novel's flaws with a singular, Darwinian determination - honing in ruthlessly on the padded protagonist; the fictional filler; the cornflour of creativity. We hate that juddering lurch where a clanging InfoDump forces your eye to reflexively skip a bunch of paragraphs, or when the Enter Stage Left of a Prêt à Cliché stock character snaps you out of the fragile, euphoric equilibrium of the Lost Reader's Trance and back to the
Avasarala and Bobbi are great! They get to be a lot stronger than the show.Love the firefly led into the next book.
Ive recently finished the eighth part and I must say that the immense coherency, precision in plotting, and meta context are so finetuned that it is a joy to read. The effort to polish this until perfection without hardly any logic holes, lengths, and errors and to stay comprehensible must be immense and I must say that Ive rarely ever seen something like that in Sci-Fi because its such a difficult task. Mostly, the novels of a series are closed in itself and there are not so many retrospects
Dying she could handle. Dying without any answers seemed terribly cruel.I read Leviathan Wakes way back. While I enjoyed it well enough, I wasnt compelled to rush off and start the next book immediately.But, here we are. And given that this has now been adapted into a TV series (which I havent watched yet), the time has come to pick up where I left offLadies and gentlemen. This settlement is in security lockdown.and Im glad that I did! If this book is anything to go by the series is shaping up
4 to 4.5 starsThe Space Opera continues and it ain't over until the fat lady sings . . . or, until you make your way through several oversized tomes!I don't really have anything to add to this review that I didn't already already cover in my review of Leviathan Wakes. It is another epic in the middle of a bigger epic. The characters are dynamic and interesting. The action is intense. The horror is terrifyingly. All in all, a satisfying and exhausting experience. When I read books and series like
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