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Caliban's War

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Publisher's summary

For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it. 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.

©2012 Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (P)2015 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"This breakneck tale will have readers itching for book three." (Publishers Weekly)

"Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights, freakish experiments, and twisty-turny mysteries... Only an excellent book series can pull them all off, and the Expanse will definitely be added to the shortlist of science fiction tales that manage to do so" (Wired.com)

"Those who enjoyed the first book will enjoy Caliban's War as much, if not more... A crackingly enjoyable read." (SFF World)

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Another awesome story

The high intensity of the story continues. Perfect vocal acting and it grips you into the story. A must listen for the Expanse fans!

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Great sci-fi at its best

After watching the first two seasons of The Expanse on Netflix I started to listen to the audiobooks and they are way better. Always nice to have a mental image of the characters though.

This book diverts quite a lot from season two but it's not that shooting. Not sure if I should go on and watch the third season though or just settle for Audible.

Story is great and I love how it develops and I will continue to listen to her next book straight away!

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Love this series!

One of the best sci fi stories ever made if not the best made so far period

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Love this book but the pronouciations bug me

I love this series but the way the narrator pronounces names like Epstein and Avasarala annoys the living hell out of me.

Everything else is perfect though, one hell of a narrator just wish he pronounced things correctly sometimes.

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Great second part of the series

Enjoying the The Expanse Series! Another good part of it done.

I would recommend reading something else in between every part. Otherwise I feel like it’s a little too slow?

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Better than the first

The story was just as terrific as the first book but the narrator got alot better. in the first book he was atrocious, monotone and dry and using the same voice for everyone. Now in book two he have gotten more life in his voice and started to use different vocalisations for the characters so you actually can hear who is talking to who.

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Caliban’s War improves over Leviathan story and narration wise

This has been an engaging listen. The different characters come with identifiable voices, The story also gets better.

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Absolutely amazing!

The depth of the world and the characters. The intricacy and lack of redundancy in the plot devices, the details for each extremely different point of view exudes significant knowledge. A stunning job all around. Prax's chapters were amazing and Avasrala's were hilarious.

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I couldn't put it down

Fascinating story with great performance. It was a bit slow but speeding up by 10% made it just perfect for me.

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A true masterwork

the book is not far from the tv serie, the tv serie is good and thus by elimination if say the book is a masterwork. i fully believe that everyone should hear this saga or read it for that matter.

thanks for making it 👌

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