[conspire] OT: The Expanse volume 8 (penultimate volume), 'Tiamat's Wrath'

[Ehud Kaldor]

I heartily join the recommendation about the expanse. Finished the fifth
recently.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 07:18 paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:

> On the topic of recommended reading:
>
> Nudist On The Late Shift & Other True Tales by Po Bronson
>
> Bronson collected many true anecdotes of life in Silicon Valley and wove
> them into a great read.  My wife read it and kept prompting me to read it.
> Once I started, I couldn't put it down.
>
> Another book by the same author is "The First $20 Million is Always the
> Hardest".  This is a novel, but it captures the feeling and manipulations
> of high tech companies.
>
> On Friday, April 26, 2019, 10:20:31 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> wrote:
>
>
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>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:16:24 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> To: skeptic at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: [skeptic] The Expanse volume 8 (penultimate volume), 'Tiamat's
> Wrath'
>
> Last night, I finished the last-but-one novel in James S.A. Corey's _The
> Expanse_ series, _Tiamat's Wrath_ -- and can say it's a winner.  Eva
> raised the question of this current space-opera science fiction series
> earlier, and got recommendations from several people including me.
>
> Overall series description:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)#Plot
>
> One problem is that you cannot really consider the eighth novel in a
> nine-novel series as if it were a separate work, and this one is a case
> in point.  I can say that the plot lines came together extremely well
> with quite a few very impressive set-pieces -- while setting up an 'Oh
> my god' climax for the as-yet-unnamed concluding volume (#9).
>
> Here's a review that covers volume #8 pretty well without spoilers:
>
> https://theillustratedpage.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/review-of-tiamats-wrath-by-james-s-a-corey/
>
> For completists, a timeline-based reading order (including short stories
> that are available online).
>
> Volume  Type  Title
> 0.1      Story  Drive
> 0.2      Story  The Churn
> 0.3      Story  The Butcher of Anderson Station
> 1        Novel  Leviathan Wakes
> 2        Novel  Caliban's War
> 2.1      Story  Gods of Risk
> 3        Novel  Abaddon's Gate
> 3.1      Story  The Vital Abyss
> 3.2      Story  Strange Dogs
> 4        Novel  Cibola Burn
> 5        Novel  Nemesis Games
> 6        Novel  Babylon's Ashes
> 7        Novel  Persepolis Rising
> 8        Novel  Tiamat's Wrath
> 9        Novel  [not yet named, and no release date yet]
>
> _Tiamat's Wrath_ took the co-authors (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck,
> writing as 'James S.A. Corey') a bit under two years, until it was
> released a month ago, so we'll all probably need to wait until 2021
> for volume #9.  Dammit.
>
> I'll be _very_ impatiently waiting for it.
>
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