Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4) (vuoden 2014 painos)

This installment of the series is just as good as the previous ones, with a focus on human unpredictability, and again our pettiness and unwillingness or inability to see the bigger picture. Holden and his crew keep going strong, Miller is still with us, and the book just keeps showing how small the universe is. ( )

Good stuff as always. This one's on a planet; I love space colony stories. There's some fun biology, and godawful disasters. Plot moves fast. What's not to like? ( )

Here I thought it was a trilogy, and then there is a fourth book! And better yet, some old heroes do cameos, but it's still a fourth book in the same pattern as older books, that is, many characters are new but James Holden, the captain of Rosinante, remains in the center with his unique connection to the alien technology and Miller.

This book picks up about a year after the last book ended. The first probes have returned with data from the other solar systems, and the first desperate refugees have landed on one of the planets, a bit ahead of the official research team that will want them to go.

In this book James S.A. Corey has obviously wanted to use parallels from many conflicts on earth, concurrent and historical, where step by step a situation has been escalated until people see no way to back down. I don't know if he intended it to be subtle or not, and while I applaud the effort, I don't think it will help much. The people detached enough to see a situation as what it is, will not have any influence on it. Possibly it will help show that even the most extreme people has a history, they walked a path to get where they ended up.

The book is still, on the whole, optimistic for the future of mankind. Now we just need space travel, exploration and space gates to see whether it's correct or not.

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The Havelock and Basia POVs are very appreciated!!! My favorite part is the death slug action for sure ( )

Mediocre, although interesting, just mediocre. It seems more and more this series ends will end up in episodic books where the main cast all survive somehow magically and nothing really happens. But lets hope for something better in the next book.

Do� I recommend it thought? If you really liked the other ones and have nothing else to read then yes, else no. ( )