Cibola Burn

, #4

eBook, 591 pages

English language

Published June 17, 2014 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-21762-0
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ASIN:
B00FPQA4F0

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4 stars (21 reviews)

Enter a new frontier. ​ "An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave."

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Ilus, 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. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the …

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reviewed Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse, #4)

Un bel passo avanti nella storia della serie

4 stars

Cibola Burn presenta un interessante spaccato dell'Oltre Anello. Le vicende su Nuova Terra si svolgono in pcoo tempo, ma il ritmo serrato e cadenzato rende la lettura scorrevole. Molto interessante la conclusione "politica" che spiega meglio le interconnessioni tra gli avvenimenti sui vari pianeti.

reviewed Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse, #4)

Each book better than the last...

5 stars

Finally reaching a point in this series where I am reading books I hadn't read yet. Impressed with how each one I like a little more than the one before it, with maybe the exception of book 2, mostly because there are some bangers of lines from Avasarala in that one...but this one probably has my favorite line from her.

This one is basically a frontier space western. A new Sheriff comes to town to go toe-to-toe with the mining company that is trying to stake a claim on a lawless world. I think the book sums itself up well with the line "The frontier doesn't have laws, it has cops."

As a result, the political intrigue that backbones the series becomes a lot more close-up and intense. There's a theme of how thin the line between enemy and ally really is, especially when survival is on the line.

On …

Review of 'Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Cibola Burn est le quatrième volume de de la saga de science-fiction The Expanse signée James S.A. Corey, le nom de plume du duo composé des auteurs Daniel Abraham et Ty Franck.

Il s’agit du roman qui sert de base à la quatrième saison, annoncée pour le 13 décembre prochain, de la série TV tirée de cette saga. J’ai donc découvert ce roman sans en connaitre à l’avance l’essentiel de l’intrigue, contrairement aux trois premiers tomes que j’ai lus en ayant déjà vu leur adaptation pour le petit écran.

L’intrigue tourne autour de la colonisation de New Terra, la première planète habitable découverte suite à l’ouverture des anneaux interstellaires à la fin du précédent roman. Une première vague de colons, des réfugiés de Ganymède qui ont erré de longs mois dans le système solaire pour être accueilli, en vain, afin de décider de s’installer sur New Terra quand l’existence de …

Review of 'Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It ain't bad.

The good: You can see how the GM set up epic events for the characters to stumble through, you can see the good rolls and bad rolls and the GM stepping in to prevent the characters from dying (although they should), and so forth.

The bad: see above.

It's a pretty compelling read, yes. It's also a book where the main characters react rather than act upon. In itself, I really don't mind that - it leaves the "acting upon" to minor characters, and drives the plot forward in a sufficiently interesting and sufficiently different way that I find it acceptable.

But unless you happen to enjoy reading an RPG session log, I'm not sure it's a good plot. There's too much stumbling from bad to worse, and too little in the way of character or world revelations to make up for that.

The best thing, to …

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