Les Feux de Cibola

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James S.A. Corey: Les Feux de Cibola (French language, 2017)

French language

Published Nov. 29, 2017

ISBN:
978-2-330-07903-1
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Cibola Burn is a 2014 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) and the fourth book in The Expanse series. It follows the crew of the Rocinante as they join the flood of humanity out into the galaxy, using the gates built by the ancient civilization that also produced the protomolecule. At the release of Cibola Burn, Orbit Books announced that James S. A. Corey would write three additional books in the series (adding to two that were already planned) to bring the series to nine novels and various short stories. Cibola Burn serves as the basis for the fourth season of the television series The Expanse, which was released by Amazon Video December 13, 2019.

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I should be used to the glacial pacing of The Expanse. The author team is very consistent in this, as displayed in the fourth book of the series, Cibola Burn. If Abbadon Gates was like an airplane crash disaster movie from the 70s, Cibola Burn moves into post-apocalyptic disasters in a way.

The Expanse so far is dealing with two different storylines. There's the protomolecule that was created by a mysterious race that turns out to be extinct now, and which has left various technological wonders like the Ring behind. Then there's the conflict of the three factions in the solar system: Earth, Mars and the Outer Planets Alliance. This conflict reaches for the stars, as a bunch of squatters from the OPA colonize the first ever planet outside of the solar system through the ring, Illus. But at the same time, an Earth energy company chooses this planet to …