Persepolis Rising

James S.A. Corey

2017 · Hardcover · Orbit

First edition · ISBN 9780316521529

Science Fiction

Hardcover

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview about the past, present, and future of James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series. The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television series. 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...