Abaddon’s Gate

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781841499932

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NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIES

Abaddon’s Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.

For generations, the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt – was humanity’s great frontier. Until now. 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.

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. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. 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.

The Expanse is the biggest science fiction series of the last decade and is now a major TV series.

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

The Expanse series:
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 Complete Expanse Story Collection

Reviews

Tense and thrilling
SciFiNow on Leviathan Wakes
The authors are superb with the exciting bits: shipboard coups and battles are a thrill to follow
WASHINGTON POST
This is the future the way it was supposed to be
The Wall Street Journal on Leviathan Wakes
A politically complex and pulse-pounding page turner . . . Series fans will find this installment the best yet
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
The best space opera has to offer
LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)
This is the future the way it's supposed to be
Wall Street Journal on Leviathan Wakes
Tense and thrilling
SciFi Now
Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fight scenes
wired.com on Leviathan Wakes
Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be
George R. R. Martin on Leviathan Wakes
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
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 on Leviathan Wakes
As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form
io9.com
As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form
io9.com on Leviathan Wakes