[TOR]∎ [PDF] Gratis Cibola Burn The Expanse James S A Corey 9780316217620 Books

Cibola Burn The Expanse James S A Corey 9780316217620 Books

Download As PDF : Cibola Burn The Expanse James S A Corey 9780316217620 Books

Cibola Burn The Expanse James S A Corey 9780316217620 Books

I acquired this science fiction novel from LibraryThing Early Reviewer program, free of charge in exchange for this review.

Apparently this is book four of a series, and while it is not strictly necessary to have read its three predecessors, I can’t imagine why you would start with book four. For that matter, it seems silly to offer this novel in exchange for a review. People who have read the first three installments are probably going to buy the fourth. I can’t imagine why anyone would start with this one. Perhaps they think that the reviewers will be compelled to go and buy the first three, but having been filled in on the “back story” through frequent information dumps, I’m not likely to go back and read a book that has already been summarized.

In Cibola Burn, the universe has been opened to colonization through discovery of an alien constructed time portal. Colonists have jumped the gun and established a colony on Ilus, also named New Terra, without the consent of the United Nations or the Outer Planets Association (two competing governing bodies). Details of this settlement are apparently part of one of the preceding books. The UN has granted a charter to a multi-national corporation to explore and settle the planet, as well as exploit its valuable lithium deposits. This obviously creates conflict between the rogue colonists and the corporation.

James Holden, seemingly the hero of the series, has been appointed as the mediator of the dispute. Upon his arrival, several acts of terrorism have already been perpetrated by the colonists and escalated by the corporate security forces. However, the planet presents its own set of dangers as both natural forces and long dormant alien constructs come to life.

This is pretty run of the mill science fiction, with little to differentiate it from hundreds of other such stories. Perhaps I would feel differently if I had read the first three books of the series, but regardless, if you are looking for space opera, Peter Hamilton does it far better.


Tags : Cibola Burn (The Expanse) [James S. A. Corey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <div><div><b>The fourth book in the NYT</i> bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn</i> sees the crew of the Rocinante</i> on a new frontier,James S. A. Corey,Cibola Burn (The Expanse),Orbit,031621762X,Science Fiction - Action & Adventure,Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction,Science Fiction - Space Opera,FICTION Science Fiction Adventure,FICTION Science Fiction Adventure.,FICTION Science Fiction High Tech,FICTION Science Fiction High Tech.,FICTION Science Fiction Space Opera.,Science fiction,Adventure,FICTION Science Fiction Action & Adventure,FICTION Science Fiction Hard Science Fiction,FICTION Science Fiction Space Opera,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Fiction-Science Fiction,FictionLiterary,FictionScience Fiction - Hard Science Fiction,FictionScience Fiction - Space Opera,GENERAL,General Adult,Great BritainBritish Isles,Monograph Series, any,SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY,United States,bisacsh

Cibola Burn The Expanse James S A Corey 9780316217620 Books Reviews

Characters are uninteresting and most are infuriatingly unrelatable. The main antagonist is a flat out psycopath that doesn't really seem to have a self-serving agenda. Unlike in abbaddon's gate this characters is cold and calculated but his agenda isn't self serving. He talks about leaving a legacy as if he is some sort of founding father but is just a pawn to the company.

The book constantly drones on about the terrible living conditions of the characters to the point you start feeling it yourself. 90% of the book was about how tired someone was or the detailed technical plan of a high risk low reward mission. There were also no characters in the book to help vent the readers frustration of the situation. No Miller to shoot the bad guy in the face before the villain justified his crimes, no Anna to yell out at the frustration of the situation, no Bull to take control of a situation that was spiraling out of control. No one seemed to take any decisive action. Everyone was pussyfooting around the issue except the bad guy who really didn't care making the situation worse.

To make it worse it seems that the author (for whatever reason) decides to skim over the most important plot points in the book.

***SPOILER ALERT***(I need to vent here)
Seriously! WTF! Did Miller really die for real? How can he die? I thought he was omnipresent. He didn't die when the station was shut down, why did he die when the planet shut down? If he did really die why did he sacrifice himself to save the people when his main purpose was to find out what happened? Why hasn't Elvi mentioned the mysterious object in the dark spot? Why did the planet explode? Why did Holden scrape off the protomolecule off his ship to destroy it? Why in gods name did the book end with Bobbie when all these factors are still up in the air?
UPDATE 3/30/2017 --- Yesterday I got an update email from saying that the audio narration has been updated

"""Dear Audible Listener, We are contacting you because you have reviewed the title “Cibola Burn” by James S. A. Coery (sic). The original recording has now been replaced with a new performance by Jefferson Mays. If you own this audiobook, simply re-download it from your library to access the new recording."""

I downloaded the new narration and rejoiced in the sweet tones and characterizations we have all come to enjoy from Jefferson Mays. I almost cried. Although I am 2/3 of the way through the book, I am happy to listen to the rest via audio now because of this.

OLD REVIEW CONCERNING PREVIOUS NARRATION
This review pertains to (mostly) the audio narration which is the worst audio narration I've listened to for any book in my life. I'm about 30% through this book at this point. The first three books have great audio narration and I was really looking forward to listening to this one. Where and why /Audible decided to hire this brainless and belligerent narrator is beyond me. Firstly, the narrator obviously hadn't listened to the previous narrator's reads of the previous books to provide any sense of continuity. Secondly, this narrator tries to 'act' the characters and does a really poor job. Unfortunately, he reads this book like it is a dime store Western/Romance novel. All the men have western cowboyish accents and all the women are read as either breathy or breathless voices. It is beyond distracting. And, even worse, this new dumb narrator's acting interpretation of Christian Avasarala is a out of breath woman on the verge of hysterics rather than the appropriate biting cynical political genius with an Indian accent. Those characters he deems not of the cowboy or helpless woman type of voice he gives either a super poor australian accent or some mixture of transylvanian/slavic (seriously sounds like a bad Dracula voice for someone with a middle eastern name). Even more unfortunate is that he has decided to provide an American Indian accent to the ghostly character of Miller. WTH!!!

So, if you enjoy cheap western novels and want a book of the expanse series read to you in this way, you will have no problem with this book. If you've listened to the narration from the previous books and expect the same 'feel' of narration, skip it for this one. You'll go stark raving mad. There is hope however, for the subsequent novel narration as it reverts back to the first narrator. From wiki This narrator's name is Erik Davies (you should be fired) and is only for Cibola Burn and the novellas Gods of Risk and The Churn. All the others are the narrator Jefferson Mays.

Dear /Audible If you switch narrators in a series, your quality control (I'm sure you have none) needs to require that the new narrator provide narration continuity. I wish I could get my money back for the audio purchase of this book. Please hire Jefferson Mays to record narration for Cibola Burn, Gods of Risk, and The Churn to replace the TERRIBLE narration of Erik Davies. Erik Davies should only be hired to record narration for awful cheap dime store Western novels. If the authors are reading this and have any pull, ask /Audible to fix this. You almost lost me as a reader.

As far as the novel goes, it is a slow starter and more boring and world building type of novel than the first three. So go into it with that in mind. Maybe by the end something cool will happen but I'm not there yet.

I got pulled into reading/listening to the novels by watching the TV series. Has been totally worth my time until I encountered this exceptionally poor narration.
I acquired this science fiction novel from LibraryThing Early Reviewer program, free of charge in exchange for this review.

Apparently this is book four of a series, and while it is not strictly necessary to have read its three predecessors, I can’t imagine why you would start with book four. For that matter, it seems silly to offer this novel in exchange for a review. People who have read the first three installments are probably going to buy the fourth. I can’t imagine why anyone would start with this one. Perhaps they think that the reviewers will be compelled to go and buy the first three, but having been filled in on the “back story” through frequent information dumps, I’m not likely to go back and read a book that has already been summarized.

In Cibola Burn, the universe has been opened to colonization through discovery of an alien constructed time portal. Colonists have jumped the gun and established a colony on Ilus, also named New Terra, without the consent of the United Nations or the Outer Planets Association (two competing governing bodies). Details of this settlement are apparently part of one of the preceding books. The UN has granted a charter to a multi-national corporation to explore and settle the planet, as well as exploit its valuable lithium deposits. This obviously creates conflict between the rogue colonists and the corporation.

James Holden, seemingly the hero of the series, has been appointed as the mediator of the dispute. Upon his arrival, several acts of terrorism have already been perpetrated by the colonists and escalated by the corporate security forces. However, the planet presents its own set of dangers as both natural forces and long dormant alien constructs come to life.

This is pretty run of the mill science fiction, with little to differentiate it from hundreds of other such stories. Perhaps I would feel differently if I had read the first three books of the series, but regardless, if you are looking for space opera, Peter Hamilton does it far better.