His own daughter, Teresa, had been on one of her illicit adventures outside the grounds. He’d been reviewing the security reports from Auberon, where the governor, responding to separatist violence, had begun recruiting locals into the system security forces. The clockwork of the empire ground slowly forward, with every revolution of the wheel making the mechanism a little smoother and more precise. His desk-Laconian rainwood, with a grain like sedimentary rock-had an inset screen showing the thousand different reports vying for his attention. He’d been in his private study at the heart of the State Building, sitting on his divan. Martinįirst there was a man named Winston Duarte. 'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written.' -George R. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.Īs nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.īut the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. “An all-time genre classic.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A.

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