Cibola burn

Published Nov. 14, 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group.

ISBN:
978-0-356-50416-2
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4 stars (25 reviews)

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reviewed Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse 4)

A great display of hard sci fi

5 stars

As with every book from The Expanse that I have read before this one, the authors do a great job of imagining a possible future for humanity and to take those premises to places that feel extremely plausible.

Also, murder mystery on a galactic scale, which is always nice. Looking forward to the next one!

Review of 'Cibola Burn' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

To tell the truth, I was saddened to see the Expanse universe expanded beyond our minuscule solar system. I really loved the limited scope of the first books, where you had people trying to fight a vast incomprehensible menace when they could hardly manage their own system.

But this book has pacified me a bit. The colonists in this story are limited as well; in fact, this one's even more limited than the first books were. I like that. It gives me hope that this series won't end up with humanity being a huge advanced civilization akin to the very one they're trying to find/investigate.

(spoiler for 2001: a Space Odyssey) That's possibly the only thing I didn't like about the 2001 book (the movie was terrible in regards to explaining things to the viewer, so I'll pretend it didn't exist): the transcendence of humanity. I get that the whole …

Review of 'Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The only reason I'm giving this book 4 stars is because, likely through no fault of the author, I found the narration of the audio book to be distracting and annoying. This led to frequent breaks from listening to the book. Overall, a good story, but I chose the wrong format.

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