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Babylon's Ashes

(2016)
(The sixth book in the Expanse series)
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Awards
2017 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES

Babylon's Ashes is the sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series.

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.

The Expanse series has sold over two million copies worldwide and is now a major television series.

The Expanse series:
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban's War
Abaddon's Gate
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon's Ashes
Persepolis Rising


Praise for the Expanse:

'The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire' NPR Books

'As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form'
io9.com

'Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights'
wired.com

'High adventure equalling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology and a group of unforgettable characters . . . Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce'
Library Journal

'This is the future the way it's supposed to be'
Wall Street Journal

'Tense and thrilling'
SciFiNow


Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." - George R R Martin


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