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  • The Expanse, Book 4
  • Written by: James S. A. Corey
  • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
  • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,225 ratings)

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Cibola Burn

Written by: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Publisher's Summary

Hugo Award Winner for Best Series

The fourth book in the NYT best-selling 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. Now a Prime Original series.

Enter a new frontier.

"An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave".

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. Ilus, 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. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth.

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. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.

And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.

The Expanse

  • Leviathan Wakes
  • Caliban's War
  • Abaddon's Gate
  • Cibola Burn
  • Nemesis Games
  • Babylon's Ashes
  • Persepolis Rising
  • Tiamat's Wrath
  • ​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 Fathers
©2014 James S.A. Corey (P)2014 Hachette Audio

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Great series so far

So far this series is turning out to be in my top 5 list. Tbh I didn’t like the first book very much but decided to continue on with the second book and so on. I will say there is very little page filler in all the books ive listened to so far, every book seems to be paced quite well. I will definitely complete this entire series and I will definitely watch the entire tv series once I finish these books. This current book is centred around being on one planet, its sounds mundane and lacking in content until you complete the entire book, you will find out this planet is a great opener to understanding the race who built the proto-molecule.

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Good but not Great

The story was good, but not great. I enjoyed the narrator, he was pleasant to listen.

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Love this series

I really love this series. For long drives nothing beats listening to audible audio books. #Audible1

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<3

The Expanse is quickly becoming one of my favourite series of all time. Book 4 and still going strong.

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I love this series. Please give it a listen!

Funny, exciting, thought provoking, and all around a wild ride. This book was good, not the best in the series but had a great arc and kept the story flowing.

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The narrator is outstanding

Not a single thing. Great story. Great narration. Can’t wait to listen to the next book in the series.

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Narrator

Honestly, is there a better narrator working today than Mays? I can’t think of one.

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Great book!

Great exploration of the birth of civilization one foreign planet. Where humanity vs. corporations becomes a struggle between life and death.

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My Favourite of the Series

so far...

Persisting issues with everyone's dialogue sounding same-y. "you can't do that" "oh but I really can". "we need to get out of here" "oh we really do".
The best examples of people having unique voices - Bobby and Avasarala are only in the prologue and epilogue and it's especially refreshing to hear Avasarala's internal dialogue in the epilogue.

Anyways this book is just constant tension from about the half way point and does not let up until the end. New Terra is awful and terrifying. Murtry is a menacing antagonist and I look forward to seeing him in the TV show

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Can't wait for the next one!

The characters continue to evolve, situations continue to surprise, Amos continues as a hard ass!

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