Babylon's Ashes
Readers rate it 4.2 (1.3K on Hardcover)
538 pages · Released 2016 · Orbit Books
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Babylon's Ashes is an adult space opera with significant violence, military conflict, and mature themes appropriate for older teens and adults. The story explores complex moral questions about power, sacrifice, and survival through political intrigue and large-scale combat scenarios. While it features diverse, compelling characters and messages about cooperation and resilience, the frequent depictions of warfare, deaths, and darker themes make it better suited for readers mature enough to handle substantive sci-fi conflict.
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The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. 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 sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. 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. 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.
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- FICTION
- Diverse Characters
- Strong Character Development
- A mix driven
- Loveable Characters
- Unloveable Characters
- Plot driven
- Weak Character Development
- science fiction
- fantasy
- medium-paced
- Adventurous
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ISBN 9780356504261 · Orbit Books