Read "Drive", a Prequel to The Expanse series.

The Expanse , premiering in December 2015 on Syfy, is based on The New York Times best selling book series by James S.A. Corey. Set two hundred years in the future, where man has colonized the outer asteroid belt, The Expanse follows the case of a missing girl that brings together a hardened detective and a rogue ship captain in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history. "Drive" highlights a key moment in The Expanse universe whose ramifications set the foundation for the show.
The story is a prequel taking place approximately 150 years prior to the main series, concerning Solomon Epstein and his invention of the Epstein drive.

A new story set in the world of The Expanse. One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero to the system. One day, he will meet a desperate man in possession of a stolen spaceship and a deadly secret and extend a hand of friendship. But long before he became the leader of the Outer Planets Alliance, Fred Johnson had a very different name. The Butcher of Anderson Station.

This is his story.

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We are not alone in this universe.

On Ganymede, the station that represents the main food source for exoplanets, a Martian marine sergeant watches her entire platoon being slaughtered before her eyes by a supernatural monster. On Earth, a high-ranking politician struggles to defuse an interplanetary war. Meanwhile, an alien protomolecule sweeps across Venus, causing profound and mysterious changes and threatening to spread and sweep across the solar system.

In the vastness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante maintain the stability of the exoplanetary alliance. When he and his crew agree to help a scientist search for his missing daughter on war-torn Ganymede, the fate of humanity hinges on whether one craft can prevent an alien invasion that may already be underway.

"Corey spins his novel with elegant, old-fashioned threads while maintaining a fast-paced pace." -- Charles Stross, one of Britain's most acclaimed science fiction authors.

"It's like watching a Hollywood blockbuster come to life in a paperback." -- io9

Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series.

For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.

Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.

Explozii apocaliptice, reactoare scoase din funcțiune, teroriști, crime în masă, limacși ucigași, iar acum, o epidemie de orbire.
E o planetă îngrozitoare! N-ar fi trebuit să venim aici.

Poarta deschisă spre necunoscut s-a dovedit promisiunea unui nou început, însă cursa pentru colonizarea unei noi planete cu un potențial imens iscă un conflict de interese ce se transformă rapid într-o luptă pentru supraviețuire. James Holden și echipajul Rosinantei primesc sarcina de a media conflictul până la luarea unei decizii cu privire la proprietatea asupra ei. Diferendul nu reprezintă însă singura problemă, deoarece o civilizație străveche, despre care se crede că este responsabilă de protomoleculă, a abandonat pe planetă hibrizi între mașinării și viața organică, care se trezesc amenințător la viață.

Starea obișnuită a naturii este să-și revină după cel mai recent dezastru.
Era un truism al biologilor ecologiști, pe care îl rosteau așa cum un credincios ar fi spus o rugăciune.

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The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series.





NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.
The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.
James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.
But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante 's problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.

Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach.

But soon the soldiers followed and under this new order Cara makes a discovery that will change everything.

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the ageing gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.
In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance, still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity – and the power to enforce it.
New technologies clash with old, as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient pattern of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity – and of the Rocinante – unexpectedly and for ever …

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series.


The Expanse Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, Babylon's Ashes, Persepolis Rising,


The Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher of Anderson Station, Gods of Risk, The Churn, The Vital Abyss, Strange Dogs.

A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.

Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it. Governor Rittenaur has come to bring civilization and order to the far outpost and guarantee the wealth and power of the Empire.

But Auberon already has its own history, a complex culture, and a criminal kingpin named Erich with very different plans. In a world of deceit, violence, and corruption, the greatest danger Rittenaur faces is love.

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.

In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.

As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.

But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat.

Through one of the gates, a colony stands alone. Their supplies are low. Their defenses, weak. The leadership is uncertain, and the community fragile. Huge alien beasts threaten the little they have left.

But the worst monsters are human, and the greatest dangers are the past they brought.

Humanity has colonised the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.

Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew discover a derelict ship called the Scopuli, they suddenly find themselves in possession of a deadly secret. A secret that someone is willing to kill for, and on an unimaginable scale. War is coming to the system, unless Jim can find out who abandoned the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money - and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and Holden, they both realise this girl may hold the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries and secret corporations, and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.

La humanidad ha colonizado el Sistema Solar, pero las estrellas aún están fuera de nuestro alcance. Jim Holden es OE de un transportador de hielo. Cuando él y su tripulación topan con una nave abandonada, descubren un secreto que desearían no haber encontrado. Un secreto por el que alguien sería capaz de matar. La guerra en el Sistema Solar está a punto de comenzar, a menos que sean capaces de descubrir quién abandonó esa nave y por qué. El inspector Miller busca a una chica entre mil millones, pero los padres de ella son gente adinerada, y el dinero lo es todo. Cuando las pistas lo llevan a la Scopuli y a Holden, un simpatizante de los rebeldes, se da cuenta de que aquella chica quizá sea la clave de todo. Holden y Miller deben atar los cabos entre el gobierno de la Tierra, los revolucionarios de los planetas exteriores y las corporaciones secretas, y lo tienen todo en su contra. Pero en el Cinturón rigen otras reglas, y una pequeña nave puede cambiar el destino del universo.

Detrás del seudónimo de James S. A. Corey se esconden el autor de ciencia ficción y fantasía Daniel Abrahan y Ty Franck, asistente personal de George R. R. Martin en la adaptación televisiva de Juego de Tronos. La serie de space opera iniciada con El despertar del Leviatán ha provocado el entusiasmo unánime del público y la crítica, y se ha labrado prescriptores de la talla del propio George R. R. Martin, quien define esta novela como una de las mejores que ha leído en mucho tiempo. En diciembre de 2015, la productora estadounidense Syfy emitió The Expanse, la adaptación televisiva de El despertar del Leviatán, cuyo éxito ha garantizado la emisión, en 2017, de una segunda temporada en Estados Unidos. Desde entonces, la saga se han convertido en una de las obras clave del género en todo el mundo.

> Primera novela de la saga de aventuras espaciales en que se basa la serie de televisión The Expanse.

> Primer volumen de una saga considerada, por prescriptores de la talla de George R. R. Martin, una obra maestra de la ciencia ficción moderna. Se sitúa dentro de doscientos años y retrata un futuro en que la humanidad ya ha colonizado el Sistema Solar.

> La presente novela corresponde al contenido de la primera temporada de la serie de TV. Gran posicionamiento en Goodreads; título clave para los principales blogs estadounidenses y de habla hispana.

> El libro está escrito a cuatro manos, y uno de los autores (Ty Franck) es el asistente personal de George R. R. Martin en la adaptación televisiva de Juego de Tronos.

ASIN B007PR3238 moved to the more recent edition

For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it.

While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain in their new - possibly temporary - autonomy.

Then, on one of Jupiter's moons, a single super-soldier attacks, slaughtering soldiers of Earth and Mars indiscriminately and reigniting the war. The race is on to discover whether this is the vanguard of an alien army, or if the danger lies closer to home.

De "L'Éveil du Léviathan" à "La Chute du Léviathan", les neuf romans de la saga "The Expanse" ont redéfini le space opera moderne.
Cet ultime volume réunit pour la première fois l'ensemble des nouvelles et novellas, écrites au fil des années, se déroulant dans l'univers de la série. On y retrouve un scientifique expérimentant sur Mars un puissant nouveau moteur, un groupe de prisonniers sur une station astéroïde, le chef d'une organisation criminelle s'efforçant de trouver un moyen de fuir la planète Terre accablée par la surpopulation et la pauvreté...

L'Empire laconien s'est effondré, libérant les treize cents systèmes solaires du joug de Winston Duarte. Mais un immémorial ennemi s'agite et la guerre contre notre univers a bel et bien recommencé.
Dans le système mort d'Adro, Elvi Okoye mène une mission scientifique désespérée pour comprendre ce qu'étaient les concepteurs des portes et ce qui les a détruits. De son côté, le colonel Aliana Tanaka pourchasse la fille disparue de Duarte... ainsi que les vestiges de l'Empereur lui-même.
Tandis que des forces défiant l'entendement se préparent à annihiler toute vie humaine, Holden et un improbable groupe d'alliés mènent une dernière bataille pour la sauver. Mais le coût de la victoire ne risque-t-il pas d'être plus élevé que celui d'une défaite ?
Avec "La Chute du Léviathan", James S. A. Corey referme de façon magistrale les aventures du Rossinante, et clôt l'un des space operas les plus enthousiasmants de ces dernières années.

À travers la galaxie, treize cents portes menant vers des systèmes solaires se sont ouvertes. Mais tandis que l’humanité bâtit son nouvel empire interstellaire au milieu des vestiges aliens, les mystères s’approfondissent et les menaces s’intensifient.

Au sein des systèmes morts, où les portes donnent sur des choses plus étranges encore que les planètes aliens, Elvi Okoye entame une quête désespérée pour découvrir la nature d’un génocide survenu avant l’apparition des premiers êtres humains et trouver des armes afin de livrer une guerre contre des forces aux frontières de l’imaginable. Le prix du savoir, toutefois, s’avérera peut-être trop élevé pour elle.

Au cœur de l’Empire, Teresa Duarte se prépare à porter le fardeau que constitue l’ambition divine de son père. Paolo Cortazár, le scientifique aux tendances sociopathes, et James Holden, le prisonnier méphistophélique, ne sont que deux des dangers d’un palais où foisonnent les intrigues, mais Teresa sait penser par elle-même et cache des secrets dont même son père, l’empereur, n’est pas au courant.

Et à travers le vaste empire humain, l’équipage disséminé du Rossinante mène un courageux combat d’arrière-garde face au régime autoritaire de Duarte. Les souvenirs de l’ancien ordre s’effacent, et un avenir sous la gouvernance éternelle de Laconia – impliquant une bataille que l’humanité ne peut gagner – paraît de plus en plus certain. Car pour affronter les horreurs qui résident entre les mondes, la bravoure et l’ambition ne seront pas suffisantes…

La Colère de Tiamat est le huitième et avant-dernier volet de l’extraordinaire saga The Expanse.

La révolution qui sévit depuis des générations a commencé dans le feu. Elle finira dans le sang.
La Flotte libre – un groupe de Ceinturiens versé dans le trafic de vaisseaux militaires – a fait subir d'innombrables revers à la Terre et mène désormais une violente campagne de piraterie au sein des planètes extérieures contre les vaisseaux colons. James Holden et son équipage connaissent mieux que personne les forces et les faiblesses de cet ennemi intraitable. Dépassés et sous-armés, les restes des anciennes forces politiques font appel au Rossinante pour mener la mission de la dernière chance. Avec le cycle The Expanse , devenu une célèbre série télévisée – certainement la meilleure adaptation SF de ces vingt dernières années –, James S. A. Corey fait trembler le space opera sur ses fondements. Ce sixième volet de la saga poursuit le travail de sape. Un roman de pur divertissement pour les fans du genre. Ouest-France. Un space opera à tomber à la renverse. G.R.R Martin. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Yannis Urano

Presque trente ans après la fin de la guerre et l’anéantissement de la Flotte libre, l’humanité a recouvré un semblant d’ordre et de stabilité. La coalition reformée de la Terre et de Mars se relève progressivement, tandis que l’Union des Transports régule les échanges commerciaux entre les différents systèmes de l’univers connu. Holden, capitaine fraîchement retraité, s’imagine bientôt couler des jours paisibles sur Titan, mais Winston Duarte s’apprête à refaire surface équipé d’une mystérieuse technologie, largement supérieure à toutes les autres. Holden, Naomi et l’équipage du Rossinante doivent maintenant opérer dans l’ombre et se lancer dans un ultime combat pour tenter de déjouer les plans du Haut consul, qui entend bien étendre son empire et diriger la galaxie d’une main de fer durant des millénaires.

La révolution qui sévit depuis des générations a commencé dans le feu. Elle finira dans le sang. La Flotte libre - un groupe de Ceinturiens versé dans le trafic de vaisseaux militaires - a fait subir des revers à la Terre et mène une violente campagne de piraterie au sein des planètes extérieures contre les vaisseaux colons. James Holden et son équipage connaissent mieux que personne les forces et les faiblesses de cette armée.
Dépassés en nombre et sous-armés, les restes des anciennes forces politiques font appel au Rossinante pour mener la mission de la dernière chance. Avec le cycle The Expanse, devenu une célèbre série télévisée, James S. A. Corey fait trembler le space opera sur ses fondements. Sixième volet de la saga, "Les Cendres de Babylone" poursuit le travail de sape.