James S A Corey Expanse Series 8 Books Collection Set

James S A Corey Expanse Series 8 Books Collection Set

Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse

Humanity has colonised 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 realise this girl may hold the key to everything.

Caliban's War: Book 2 of the Expanse

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.

Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse

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.

Cibola Burn: Book 4 of the Expanse

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise 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.

Nemesis Games: Book 5 of the Expanse

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.

Babylon's Ashes: Book 6 of the Expanse

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.

Persepolis Rising: Book 7 of the Expanse

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.

Tiamat's Wrath: Book 8 of the Expanse

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.