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Babylon's Ashes

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Hugo Award Winner for Best Series

The sixth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Babylon's Ashes has the galaxy in full revolution, and it's up to the crew of the Rocinante to make a desperate mission to the gate network and thin hope of victory. Now a Prime Original 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.

Babylon's Ashes is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the best-selling Nemesis Games.

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
©2016 James S. A. Corey (P)2016 Hachette Audio
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A good continuation but I expected more development.

I absolutely love the series and the world they've created, but this book seemed to progress very little about the overall story going on. Still happy to hear about my favorite crew in any case, and the story was still fun. Just left a lot to be desired on other certain fronts.

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Another Great Entry in the Series

Where does Babylon's Ashes rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Easily in the top 30

What did you like best about this story?

In this story we get all the favorite characters all interacting and on the same story arc.

What about Jefferson Mays’s performance did you like?

Jefferson Mays performance for all The Expanse titles (That he's done) has been fantastic, he nails the characters and his general narration style seems to compliment the stories setting.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Actually no, which is strange for an Expanse novel, in a series that (to me) stands out for its moments that you'll remember when the whole story changes this title conspicuously lacked one of those moments, but still a great story.

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Epic space opera with modern realpolitik.

Stories as mind blowing as Alastair Reynolds', and plots as large as Game of Thrones

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Favorite of the series

They wrote a wonderful book, sorry it had to end. And the narrator Mr Mays is amazing, voices and accents were perfect.

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kinda lame

probably the weakest of all the books. just really slow and not my bag I guess.

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Great entry in a great series

One of my favorites in the series. Reader is excellent, as usual. Can't wait for the next one.

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Too much free Navy, not enough Amos.

I've enjoyed all 6 books thus far. I enjoy the TV series. The science involved is about as realistic as you're going to get, and the direction that the authors take humanity through is incredibly well thought out, and pretty accurate - aliens aside. While this book was far more political and idealistic than the previous books, I find that there was too much Marko and Phillip, and not enough of the main ensemble.

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Deadly Entertaining

I love all of the Expanse. This closes one chapter and opens a new one.

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A good continuation

Definitely a different focus than the prior books, deeper character development and more of a look to the human side of things. I wasn’t disappointed with this book as some where

With the ending I’m hoping the sequel finally dives deeper into the origin of the gates and the protomolicule. Regardless a good base of characters has been built up and it will be fun to watch them grow as the series continues/concludes

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A wonderful new book in this exceptional series.

I chose early on to follow these stories in audiobook format. I believe that Jefferson Mays brings the characters alive with his incredible ability to voice each one so distinctly. That said, how ever you choose to enter the world these two guys have created, do so.
I am also a huge fan of the SyFy Tv series and hope it continues as long as the book series runs. Ultimately, I have not experienced a speculative fiction collaboration as good as this since Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.

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