Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, 7) by James S. A. Corey (Epub)

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The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante tries to rally forces against the new invasion. Now a Prime Original series.

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An old enemy returns.
In the thousand-sun network of humanity’s expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.

In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.

New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity — and of the Rocinante — unexpectedly and forever. . .

The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban’s War
Abaddon’s Gate
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon’s Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat’s Wrath
​Leviathan Falls

Memory’s Legion

The Expanse Short Fiction
Drive
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
Auberon
The Sins of Our Fathers

User’s Reviews

Review “A standout tale of violence, intrigue, ambition, and hope. … Corey cranks up the tension relentlessly in this fast-paced story of heroes and rebels fighting for freedom. With enough thrills and intrigue for three Hollywood blockbusters, the novel stands alone nicely, making it easy for new readers as well as diehard series fans to dive right in.”―Publishers Weekly on Nemesis Games”The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire…only with fewer beheadings and way more spaceships.”―NPR Books on Cibola Burn”Combining an exploration of real human frailties with big SF ideas and exciting thriller action, Corey cements the series as must-read space opera.”―Library Journal (Starred Review) on Cibola Burn”The Expanse series is the best space opera series running at full tilt right now, and Cibola Burn continues that streak of excellence.”―io9″Corey’s splendid fourth Expanse novel blends adventure with uncommon decency.”―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Cibola Burn”A politically complex and pulse-pounding page-turner…. Corey perfectly balances character development with action… series fans will find this installment the best yet.”―Publishers Weekly on Abaddon’s Gate”It’s been too long since we’ve had a really kickass space opera. Leviathan Wakes is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written, the kind of SF that made me fall in love with the genre way back when, seasoned with a dollop of horror and a dash of noir. Jimmy Corey writes with the energy of a brash newcomer and the polish of a seasoned pro. So where’s the second book?”―George R. R. Martin”An excellent space operatic debut in the grand tradition of Peter F. Hamilton.”―Charles Stross on Leviathan Wakes”High adventure equaling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology, and a group of unforgettable characters bring the third installment of Corey’s epic space drama (after Caliban’s War and Leviathan Wakes) to an action-filled close while leaving room for more stories to unfold. Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce, this superb collaboration between fantasy authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck should reawaken an interest in old-fashioned storytelling and cinematic pacing. Highly recommended.”―Library Journal on Abaddon’s Gate”Literary space opera at its absolute best.”―io9 on Abaddon’s Gate”[T]he authors are superb with the exciting bits: Shipboard coups and battles are a thrill to follow.”―Washington Post on Abaddon’s Gate”Riveting interplanetary thriller.”―Publishers Weekly on Leviathan Wakes

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ The authors made a bold move by jumping ahead a couple decades after the last book. This sudden transition may be a bit jarring to readers, but seems like a necessary change to bring the series to its conclusion. The Expanse could easily have ended (and ended well) after Books Five and Six, so it makes sense that any subsequent volumes would need to veer in a different direction.I have a hard time agreeing with others that claim this is one of the best novels in the series. Though it was interesting to see it tie events back to Book 4 (which suddenly makes what I previously felt was the weakest novel in the series more relevant), it seemed this volume was less engaging than its recent predecessors. By necessity, I suppose… it’s setting up the new “future” timeline by investing in a lot of new details and characters that will drive the story home. As a result, we spend less time with the characters and team that have carried the tale until now. The story, action and continuing character development (with the exception of Bobbie and perhaps Amos) is scattered and a bit light.It’s the type of book that’s needed to set up the bigger stuff that comes next. While an essential part of the story, it doesn’t really hold up when compared individually to the other novels.

⭐ As with the other books in this series, I looked forward to picking it up daily and continuing to read. There are fun ideas, personalities that have become warm friends, and a string of challenges for the crew of the Rocinante to (mostly) overcome, though the ever-strong Roci is sadly bridled and in stocks more than I wanted in this installment. Still, if you have read the prior books in the series, you should definitely read this one too.I must say, though, that there are a couple of cracks In the bulkhead that are starting to show up for me. Several times reading through this book, I felt like the authors’ pace had slowed down too far. It felt like there was filler I shouldn’t have to wade through … like they were turning one book into two for the sake of sales. There was plenty of detailed painting of the flowers on the wall of the moment, and not the fast advance through the story that was the hallmark of the prior books.Enough so that I am starting to tire of this journey. The wait for the plodding insurrection on Medina station to have a meaningful impact on moving the story was truly starting to drive me nuts, as was the inexorably slow wait for the space battle between the trade union and the invaders. I yearned for the quick moving machinations of Avasarala, who – both in, and like the book – has become long in the tooth.The tragic character of the occupying governor on Medina station also weakened the story for me. The character was too obviously flawed and doomed from the beginning. It was painful, not in a good way, to have to process this as part of the story arc.On the plus side, it was nice that the book makes us examine the moral dilemma posed by being subject to a benevolent dictatorship. It is an interesting idea to develop in the context of actual politics and governance on planet earth in the year 2018. Some of the best science fiction in history has served to highlight what it might mean to wield ultimate power without checks and balances. I hope the next book will rise to the challenge of greatness regarding this, and be a great commentary on the governance of the human situation.Finally, I simply find myself wanting to see how the story is going to end. After the cliffhanger of an ending in this book, I’m sure I will read the next one. But I think it would be good if the next book were the last one in the series. How ever the crew, galaxy, universe, and the proto-monsters lurking in the dark abyss want to resolve the inevitable clash to come, I hope they do it in the next book.

⭐ I absolutely loved the other books, just swept through them and bought the audiobooks too. This one? Not so much. I really wanted to love it and I just knew I would love it but… I see I bought this on Dec. 5, 2017 and I am not quite halfway through. I keep coming back to it, read a few pages and go on to something that really grabs my attention. I hate that this is some 30 years later. How can we view our young heroes as young heroes anymore. 30 years? Really? 10 might be ok but 30????Also at 48% into the book, they are still under the oppressor thumb, not having moved a jot or a tittle from when the gate was first breached. Still talking about what they are gonna do. Talking and wondering and chewing on ideas. And talking talking talking…Ok finally finished and I have three words for the last half of the book: depressing, depressing, hopeless.

⭐ Alas, alas, alas. I have reached the current end of the Expanse science fiction series, and must now await, very impatiently, the release of volume eight. I devoured the existing seven books in approximately one month, with several of the characters growing into friends, and I don’t want to say goodbye, even temporarily. I note that there are several short stories/novellas that accompany the series, and soon I will gobble those up.As to book seven in particular, I found reading it more bittersweet than earlier volumes. Two of the plot choices upset me. I won’t be specific, because I don’t wish to spoil the book, but both made me sad, a foretaste of the greater sadness that came with reaching the end of the book, the end of the story so far.Lest there be any doubt, I liked Perseopolis Rising very much, as I have liked the entire series.

⭐ 30 years later… No, really. James S.A. Corey’s military science fiction novel Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, 7) takes place roughly three decades after Babylon’s Ashes. Laconia, the colony formed by the rogue Martian contingent led by “High Consul” Winston Duarte, has decided it’s time to reinstate contact with the rest of humanity. They’re certain that they know how to make civilization peaceful and prosperous–even if it means they have to conquer everyone in order to achieve their goals. And they’ve been building warships based on alien technology that can do the job. They’re also doing human experiments using the protomolecule–something that almost certainly won’t end well. Drummer, who used to be Fred Johnson’s head of security, is now “Madame President” of the Belters’ Transport Union, and she finds herself in the unenviable position of having to decide whether or not to use her resources to fight against the Laconians. Earth has also recovered just enough that it’s starting to become active in matters again–one of the benefits of picking up 30 years later. As for our heroes on the Rocinante, Holden and Naomi want to retire, and they’ve decided to sell the ship to Bobbie. She becomes captain just in time to deal with this latest crisis.There’s a theme of fascism and dictatorship running through this book. Before Laconian ships arrive, Holden is contracted to deliver consequences to a colony that’s refusing to obey the Transport Union, and he has to decide how to handle the fact that he’s basically delivering a death sentence. Once the Laconians arrive and take over Medina Station, we get to see that the best of intentions can still devolve into arrests, deaths, and so forth. We also experience the new Medina “governor’s” slide as he, a loving family man, starts to see the conquered as less than human. The Laconians legitimately seem to want to improve people’s lives (most of them, anyway), but this book gives a great look at how the way you go about such a thing has consequences. For everyone. We see what happens when there’s zero room given to negotiate those consequences.The crew of the Rocinante has seen better days. Alex has married and divorced again. Amos seems to be going off the deep end–and we see what happens when he begins to lose control of his psychopathic tendencies. Clarissa is very sick, actually dying, because of the degradation of the glands she had implanted. Holden and Naomi are tired. Bobbie chafes at being under someone else’s command for so long and wants to run things herself. There’s also no way for the crew to free Medina without causing a lot of collateral damage–to themselves and others.Don’t worry–we come back to that odd anomaly where some ships get “eaten” by the gates. There’s a massive weapon the Laconians are wielding that’s based on the same technology, and it’s causing its own side effects. We also see bits and pieces of what the Laconians are doing with the protomolecule, and if it took up more of the book I’d be adding “horror” to my mental list of keywords.As a little tidbit, I also appreciate that this series shows plenty of relationships between members of the opposite sex that have nothing to do with sex or romance, ranging from professionalism to close friendships.

⭐ I went into this book a little skeptical as I had some problems with book six, and while I feel some of the issues were addressed, I still don’t think it holds up compared to early books in the series.The book starts after skipping thirty years. I noticed a lot of reviewers though of this as a ‘big risk’, though I’m not entirely sure why. It works effectively to advance the plot to a necessary point without wasting undo time and space on what were ostensibly relatively uneventful years (it certainly spares us from having to slog through the entirety of another failed marriage of Alex’s). One of my problems with book six was a lack of seeing the Roci crew together as an ensemble with the accompanying group dynamics, the same sort of thing late seasons of Stargate suffered from. That is thankfully remedied here for the most part, even though we are initially led to believe that may not be the case. I am saddened by the minimal presence of Avasarala, much like in book six, as she is an outstanding powerful female character. I feel as though the authors tried to make up for this lack of that powerful female figure with the introduction of Drummer, but it just doesn’t play well. She’s not in much of the story, and when she is there due to the nature of what is happening she is mostly ineffective. Again, as always, I miss Miller and the interplay between him and Holden, though there are hints at the end that MAYBE there will be a return of Miller in some form. We get some good emotional development concerning Amos, probably one of my favorite parts of this, though it still falls short of him being a truly dynamic character, mostly concerning the interplay between him and Clarissa. We get a satisfying ending to the evolution of Clarissa as a person as well. I feel we also see Bobby in the end stages of her growth and development as a character, but again in a satisfying way. As Clarissa and bobby have been the most dynamic characters (let’s face it, with the exception of one book, Holden has pretty much been a static figure), this worked well going into the final arc of the series.That is something to consider in both the striking and weak points of this entry, this is meant as the first part in a final three part story arc. This is problematic in a few ways…in previous books, regardless their placement in the overall arc, there was still typically a self-contained plot that got wrapped up within the book. That doesn’t happen here which is pretty unsatisfying. Another issue is that it caused the introduction of some characters which could have been interesting additions to the plot which we barely see at all, presumably as they will play a role later in the arc, but within the context of this story makes them feel superfluous (re: Houston, Trejo, Drummer, Duarte, etc.).My final issue with this is the sort of inevitability of the ending of this book. It is clear very early on that the Laconians and Duarte are being set up as undefeateble foe, barring some serious dues ex machina, which is actually teased at at one point put presumably won’t pay off until the next or final book. I understand the appeal and point of seeing our heroes defeated only to rise and triumph again later, but I feel like the larger conflict being developed by the authors could still have been done distasteful Laconions, and without having a predictable ending from nearly the very beginning of this book.Overall an improvement over book six, but still lacking in some important ways. I wonder if some of that is not the result of a rushed timetable caused by the overall success of the series as well as the development of it into a television show.

⭐ This is an odd one for me to rate. I can see that some of this story is necessary if we want more of the long-term story of the human race. So I think that this story sort of works, sort of doesn’t, depending on what you’re in it for.If you’re in it for the playing out of the politics of the expansion from the opening of the rings and after the loss of Earth, it’s a pretty big jump in time. Taking place 30 years after the last book, we see how the Earth and the colony planets have come to a working agreement on how the new areas, the ring-station area, and the sol system, got through the lean years of a dead Earth and little food. It makes sense that the belters are now handling the transfer of food and supplies from one system to another. The people who want worlds can find one, and the ones that want to call space their home have an import part of the new realities. It’s gotten them through the lean years. But then what happens when those missing Martian Military ships come back? What were their plans in the first place? This book starts the story of those new invaders and their plans.But if you’re in it mostly for the Rocinante, Holden and his crew, the thirty-year jump is harsh, and feels a bit unrealistic. The writers try to fill in some of the gaps, in how they’ve all aged, and at the same time taking anti-aging drugs. Holden was in his mid-to-late thirties (going from Naomi’s age when her son was born, and his age at the end of the last book) should now be in his mid-to-late sixties. There should be a feeling that they’re different people now, and to see how life’s changed them. But they really read like the younger characters, only with mentions of aches and pains, and some gray hair. Most of the 30 years gone is vaguely mentioned and doesn’t feel real. These don’t feel like characters who have matured into more complicated people. I sort of feel cheated that the stories of those 30 years have been taken, and we’ll never get them back. It’s a jarring loss.So, I guess it depends on where your interest in the series lie. I’m more into the characters, rather than the grand scheme playing out. If you’re more interested in the progress of the human race through this time as a whole, it’s probably not as jarring. Thirty years is a long time to lose. I still feel unsettled about it.

⭐ I love this series. It is my happy place. I was grateful to return to it this miserable COVID19 year. The characters and relationships are so rich and multi dimensional. Strong female characters. Ethnically diverse characters. Broken people like Amos. I adore the plausible “science” of space travel and alien beings and worlds.The television series built beautifully on the themes of humanity’s evolution and progress alongside failure to escape our millennia old habits of colonialism, domination, us vs them thinking, and racism. The sheer beauty and even richer characters of the show, while a departure from the books in some ways, also added dimension I was overjoyed to see.I found this installment of the series a bit discouraging and I am so glad there is another. I finished what Expanse books were available in 2015. They ended so beautifully. I could not imagine how a TV series could be as good as the books, with their layers of world building superimposed on history and old ideas of afterlife, connection, divinity. “Palimpsest,” Duarte says.The TV series is a different artifact than the books but it is an admirable work on its own merits- the best TV I have ever seen. And unlike the TV series ending top soon, the novels seem to still have legs. I will be so sorry when I turn the last page.

⭐ The Expanse video took a while to grow on me. Then I got into it. The books were better since they explained a lot of things in more detail where the videos were a bit fast. Book 6 was a continuation of the fifth season in the video so it was a decent read. By the time I got to book 7 it started to really drag. The authors were getting away from themselves and a good story. They start to jump around. They wrote like they were high. Plot started to have glaring holes. I know this is a sci fi story and some creative license is ok. However when the story started to lose any sense of human relatable ideas then the authors are no longer doing their job. Yes you can write a pig can fly but you have to do it convincingly. The ease of the so called “recyler” to handle anything thrown inside is just a bit ridiculous. Also any one HUMAN really think they can have the time, intelligence, and stamina to govern billions of people is just a fantasy. Jumping ahead 3 decades in the story with the same characters is also unrealistic and hard to keep continuity.Wait a minute, book 8 is even worse.

⭐ Up front this seires is for older young adults and above due to language for the most part.I went back and forth between giving this a 3 or 4 star read. Thinking about how well the authors gave each of the povs an unique voice about pushed me over, but the massive time jump, combined with the numerous pov that made the pacing choppy, sealed my rating. Granted I’ve had many 3 star books I enjoyed more but this one taught me alot about story choices and direction. The authors use of third person povs was just as informative. I admittedly struggled through the last few books but I was excited to see new members of the crew and looked forward to the next book. A 30 year time jump threw the series off for me. There was so much potential just to see and show off how they all meshed. Instead we get a group of people that have spent a lot of time together and out side of age and outside relationships changed very little in that time in terms of how they interacted and related with each other.The rest of the story was affect by the time jump in that a lot happened in three decades but it doesn’t matter since the table gets flipped. The end was not quiet surprise but was inevitable. There were a few good chapters that hit the heart strings with familiar povs.There was no real omg twist or oh wow plot thread, though there were a few powerful moments that shined through.

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