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Loading... Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse) (edition 2013)by James S.A. Corey
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I didn't find this book as good as the previous ones, which i put down to a character thing. Too much christian waffle: i live in hope that by the time Hominids are travelling the whole solar system we'll have gotten over this all the organised religion thing and seen it for what it truly is. Â I found it beyond tragic that people were still clinging to this twaddle. And i also found Clarissa just tedious and annoying: like a lot of spoiled rich brats that i've known in my life. Â I really don't like reading about them and having to endure their thinking. Still, it has it's good parts, which do balance the few crap characters and religiosity out and offer some redemption (pun intended) for those expecting something better. I've now dived straight into The Vital Abyss, which is much better and more like what i expect from this series. Three books in to a series based on near-ish sci-fi in our solar system, where major system-wide crises happen and things often get very bad before they somewhat resolve into something tenuously balanced, not necessarily better. The series has done a great job so far of having an enormous scale to the events but a very human scale to the stories. Even though some of these characters have become celebrities within the narrative, things feel grounded and chaotic, which is probably the biggest ingredient that gives this series it's sense of realism. One theme that does feel emergent is a struggle between passionate progressiveness and destructive, sociopathic, extractive capitalism. So many of the struggles involve characters trying to save lives from the behaviour or people who are essentially selfish. Loving it so far! Without spoilers, the end of this series expands the scope of things, and perhaps pushes it further into speculative sci fi away from it's more 'hard sci fi' roots. The only critique I have is that the macguffin element of the plot doesn't have the psychological impact that I would expect on the characters and societies in this world... but even that might be something that happened elsewhere in the story then in the moments depicted, so it's not that big a problem. Usually about three books in a series is all I can take before I lose interest. Abaddon's Gate is good enough to hold me for at least one more (maybe two?). I very much appreciate how careful the authors are with the physics in this whole series. It warms the heart of my inner seven-year-old who dreamed of living in space. Plus, the characters are just so damned entertaining. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series. HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES For generations, the solar system â?? Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt â?? was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to 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 artifact. 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. Abaddon's Gate is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Caliban's War. The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath â??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 Fat No library descriptions found. |
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