Nearly three years have passed since Book 4, CIBOLA BURN, and the crew of the
Rocinante needs a break. For that matter, so does their ship, a former
Mars corvette which was either salvaged or stolen, depending on which
government you believe. Docked at Tycho Station, the crew learns that their
ship needs serious repairs, which will keep her at the station for at least
half a year.
Having spent the last four books and six years together, the crew takes the
downtime as a moment to reflect on how their lives have changed and what that
means going forward. Their past, too, has unfinished business calling them
back with the hope of reconnecting lost love, saying goodbye, or repairing
old sins. As each falls deeper into their past, the solar system moves from a
shared optimism of the thousands of new worlds the protomolecule's wormhole
gates have opened to a terrifying fear that humanity may destroy itself before
setting foot on those worlds.
NEMESIS GAMES is told through the perspectives of the Rocinante crew
where each chapter leads the reader through the story. It is this mechanism
and pacing that has kept me hooked since I started the series four months ago.
The writing duo that is James S.A. Corey crafted a story where most everyone
we meet and the political structures that make up their world are savagely
torn down. NEMESIS GAMES is different from other space operas in that I've
never enjoyed the subject more than I have in the Expanse series.
Corey's great challenge is a story where the past is opened up and explored
for characters that have been built over four books. I still think that a new
reader can start with this book and not be far out of the loop. NEMESIS GAMES
pulls you in and keeps you riveted by making you laugh and being afraid that
this may be the time a character won't survive.
The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York
Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for
television by the SyFy Channel!
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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