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 sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Private armies are being secretly formed. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.Ī thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the heart of chaos. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. 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. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. A missing child may hold the key to humanity's survival - but only if they can find her first.įor generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Once again, Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante find themselves in the eye of the storm. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting.Īnd on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. On Jupiter's largest moon, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations-and the odds are against them. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for-and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach.
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