The Expanse series has become a popular hit with readers and was adapted
as a television show on the Syfy channel. It draws inspiration from
Ridley Scott’s films Alien & Blade Runner, Larry Niven's "Known Space series" and Alfred Bester’s novel The Stars My Destination. The TV series premiered in 2015 with Abraham and Franck as producers. The series was later picked up by Amazon Prime.
The Butcher of Anderson Station" is a short story in The Expanse series. It was published in 2011.
Corey is actually two authors: Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
The story is a prequel that takes place prior to Leviathan Wakes. It is about Colonel Fred Johnson and explains the events on Anderson Station and how he subsequently defected to the OPA.
Book 1 - Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
The First edition was a Paperback
Leviathan Wakes
was first released as a trade paperback and ebook by Orbit Books. June 2, 2011
The copy on the left is a later print of the first edition.
A image of the first printing/ first edition is below. "Leviathan Wakes" is white, not pink.
On
November 3, 2015, it was released in paperback with a tie-in cover for
the TV series adaptation.
Brief summary:
"Humanity
has colonized 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 realize this girl may hold the key to everything".
This is a copy of the first edition, first run.***** Science
Fiction Book Club and Subteranrean press had released limited edition
hardcovers for the book
as early as 2011, but a wide release hardcover was not available
until as part of a three-book box set on November 19, 2019.
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This was first published in 2012 as part of a sci-fi collection of short stories called "Edge of Infinity" by Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
The story takes place about 150 years before the main Expanse series, It concerns Solomon Epstein and his invention of the Epstein drive.
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Book 2 - Caliban's War James S.A. Corey
is the second novel in The Expanse series.
Publication date 26 June, 2012
Trade Paperback, 605 ?? pages
Publisher : Orbit (Hachette)
ISBN: 9780316129060All text is white.
Later paperback editions have "Calibans War" in yellow. +++
The first English hardcover was published
2012
by Orbit.
It has 595 pages
Brief Summary:
"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".
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Book 3
Abaddon's Gate is the third novel in The Expanse series.
Abaddon's Gate was released as a trade paperback and ebook by Orbit Books. +++
June 4, 2013.
Paperback, 539 pages
ISBN: 0316129070
(ISBN13: 9780316129077)
" 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".
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The Churn: An Expanse Novella
This was released as an E book in April 29, 2014.
This story is set on Earth, centering around the city of Baltimore
and it's crime bosses.
The novella, fills in much of the story of Amos Burton.
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Book 4
Cibola Burn is the fourth novel in The Expanse series.
It was released June 5, 2014 in Europe, and June 17, 2014 in the US.
The June 5th 2014
edition was published by Orbit as a Paperback, 581 pages
The June 17th 2014
edition was published by Orbit as a Hardcover, 592 pages *****
A mass-market paperback edition was released worldwide on May 15, 2015
" The
gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to
colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from
humanity's home planets. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new
frontier, is being born in blood and fire. 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. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new
and alien world. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are
sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the heart of chaos.
But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was
meant to fail".
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Book 5
Nemesis Games James S.A. Corey , is the fifth novel in The Expanse series.
The book was released as a hardcover on June 2, 2015. *****
A mass-market paperback edition was released worldwide on May 10, 2016.
" A
thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human
history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power
structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are
disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed.
The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks
previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees.
The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price. And as a
new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden
and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to
the only home they have left".
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The Vital Abyss: An Expanse Novella (Oct 15, 2015)
This is written from the perspective of Paolo Cortazar
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The book was released as a hardcover on December 6, 2016.
A mass-market paperback edition was released worldwide on October 24, 2017.
2017 Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel
2017 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction
2017 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
2017 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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" 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".
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Strange Dogs: An Expanse Novella (July 18, 2017)
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Book 7
Persepolis Rising is the seventh novel in The Expanse series.
The book was released as a hardcover on December 5, 2017. ***
The book was first released as a trade paperback in Europe. A paperback edition was released worldwide on October 9, 2018.
" 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".
Book 8
Tiamat's Wrath is the eighth and penultimate novel in The Expanse series.
The book was released as a hardcover on March 26, 2019. ***
The book was first released as a trade paperback in Europe. A paperback
edition was released in the United States on January 21, 2020.
" Thirteen
hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as
humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the
mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead
to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate
search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the
first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against
forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge
may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa
Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition.
The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortazar and the Mephistophelian
prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with
intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father
the emperor doesn't guess".
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- The Last Flight of the Cassandra" (bonus short story in The Expanse Roleplaying Game; (May 14, 2019)
- Auberon: An Expanse Novella (Nov 12, 2019)
Book 9
Leviathan Falls marks the end of the book series.
Published 30 November 2021
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Memory's Legion:
The Complete Expanse Story Collection (The Expanse)
The first edition
Hardcover – March 15,2022
The Expanse Short Fiction
Drive
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
Auberon
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
Auberon
Memory's Legion (new novella)
Links
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