Gods of Risk
An Expanse Novella
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A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series, Gods of Risk tells the story of Bobbie Draper following the events of Caliban's War.
Hugo Award Winner for Best Series
As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, 16-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-Marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about.
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
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'Necropolis' Rocked My World
- By HEIDI on 01-19-12
By: Michael Dempsey
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How to Shield an Assassin
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- By: AJ Sherwood
- Narrated by: Iggy Toma, Antonio Amato
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Ari had a game plan for life: shoot people. Get money. Hang out with fellow criminal friends. He saw absolutely no reason to change that plan until one dark night in Memphis, when a little girl reached out to him with pocket change and a desperate plea for him to help her. Adopting an abused little girl off the streets was, needless to say, not part of the plan. Ari had no idea what he was doing with an eight year old. He especially didn’t know how to juggle taking contracts and raising a little girl.
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The Professional + Three Men & A Lady, but dull
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 07-20-22
By: AJ Sherwood
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Robot Uprisings
- By: Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford, Tamara Marston, A.T. Chandler, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives.
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Has some bright spots
- By ChrisM. on 10-22-15
By: Daniel H. Wilson, and others
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Unraveling
- By: Elizabeth Norris
- Narrated by: Katie Schorr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Two days before the start of her junior year, 17-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed - as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she's opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn't possible, she knows - with every fiber of her being - that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.
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Roswell + Fringe = Unraveling
- By Gena on 05-05-12
By: Elizabeth Norris
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Deep Deception
- By: Cathy Pegau
- Narrated by: Rachel Green
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Genevieve "Gennie" Caine has no choice but to seduce, drug, and tie Colonial Mining Authority agent Natalia Hallowell to the bed to get her attention. With the Reyes Corporation after something she has, Gennie needs Natalia to open an investigation and distract them long enough for her to get off Nevarro. Natalia doesn't trust Gennie - despite the growing attraction between them - but the corporation's suspiciously high profits and abnormal business dealings convince her that they must be hiding something.
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Deep Deception is a Suprising Good Story!
- By zenabuff on 07-18-14
By: Cathy Pegau
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Up Against It
- By: M. J. Locke
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
- By A reader on 06-19-12
By: M. J. Locke
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Recon
- By: Tarah Benner
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Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don't ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine. She's the best developer in her year, and she's confident she'll find a place among the wealthy, respected Systems workers. But when an upset in the bidding changes the course of Harper's future, she'll be forced to rely on an unlikely ally.
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Really fun listen
- By Cate on 05-23-16
By: Tarah Benner
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Dirty Magic
- By: Jaye Wells
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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The last thing patrol cop Kate Prospero expected to find on her nightly rounds was a werewolf covered in the blood of his latest victim. But then, she also didn't expect that shooting him would land her in the crosshairs of a Magic Enforcement Agency task force, who wants to know why she killed their lead snitch. The more Prospero learns about the dangerous new potion the MEA is investigating, the more she's convinced that earning a spot on their task force is the career break she's been wanting. But getting the assignment proves much easier than solving the case.
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Not really fantasy at all
- By gregory on 10-23-14
By: Jaye Wells
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A Long, Long Sleep
- By: Anna Sheehan
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for 62 years when she is woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, 16-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. Now her parents and her first love are long dead, and Rose - hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire - is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes....
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Sleeping Beauty Sci-Fi Edition
- By Katherine on 05-11-13
By: Anna Sheehan
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A Nail Through The Heart
- A Poke Rafferty Thriller
- By: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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Ever been to Bangkok?
- By Richard Delman on 12-11-11
By: Timothy Hallinan
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- By: John Joseph Adams - editor
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Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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HAND DANCING
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-30-15
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- Rob
- 10-16-23
Enjoyable sideshow to the Expanse
Think of this as a side quest story to The Expanse main storyline. Very enjoyable but doesn’t mean much for the rest of the story. Would recommend for fans of the series.
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- Mr. JLC
- 04-16-22
Someone forgot Bobbie’s accent
The only thing I did not like in this audiobook was Jefferson Mayes performance of Bobbie Draper. In Caliban’s War his performance of Bobbie had a healthy amount of southern drawl to her accent. In this performance there is barely a hint and it really breaks the fantasy setting.
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- Joe martinez
- 12-14-22
Good short
Good short expands well on or we already know it’s a little more in depth
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-26-22
expanse short
a good short story. enjoyed it internal of generations was cool. ila coming off age story to boot
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- Steven P.
- 02-18-24
A decent side story but not necessary to the main plot of the series
It was a quick background on the Draper family and the mars society but Bobbie is not the main focus of the story
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- W. Lanni
- 07-27-24
The subtle elegant beauty of the psychology
Another great story, and I love how the characters are so deep and believable, how they evolve.
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- Brandon
- 03-05-22
meh i know its 2 hrs but you can do better
soso dont waste mo ey or credits on this 2 hr book just my feelings
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- Jon
- 01-24-23
Unnecessary addition
Did not get pulled into this story much at all. I wonder if the payoff comes in after reading the third book. Seems like these additional novellas are just additional background on a character.
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- H Potter
- 04-09-24
Well written, performed, but about little
There's a simple story here that is well delivered, and holds some entertainment, but what I was hoping for was building of the Mars setting, or narrative events following Bobby between larger arcs, or similar. It was instead a bit like following the life and times of a minor anonymous character who just happens to know the place and people I'm interested in. This isn't the fault of either author or performer, but how it was pitched / marketed, which I feel strongly implied we'd find out what Bobby was up to between books. That's technically what it was, but at remove.
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- Austin
- 06-16-22
Meh indeed (other reviews correct)
Idk if I noticed a change in Bobby's accident, but otherwise I think the other reviews are mostly correct. Very different story from the TV show here, and while I think it's a relatively good character driven story, really doesn't add much to the series other than adding to Martian culture (but that's just a minor part of the story). Mostly just teen angst + Breaking Bad.
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