Cibola Burn

Book 4 of the Expanse

By: James S. A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Please note: 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.

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.

Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world.

James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the heart of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.

And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilisation which once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed them.

Cibola Burn is the exhilarating fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, following the Hugo-nominated Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate. ©2014 Ty Franck

Critic reviews

Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be

As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form

This is the future the way it's supposed to be

Tense and thrilling

Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fight scenes

High adventure equalling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology and a group of unforgettable characters . . . Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce

Simply brilliant!

From the beginning, edge of your seat suspense, some action, some thrills all brought together by absolutely fantastic narration.

Highly recommend, great continuation of the Expanse series!

Great story line with excellent storytelling

Great story, really lovable charecters, man expands into to space and unknown, the fight for the rights to anything and everything out there... best space story to date in my oppinion.

Another gripping story

Holden and the crew are faced with new challenges. It does not disappoint! Enjoy season 4!

Changed narrator?

I see some people complaining about the narration, they must have updated this audiobook because its the same narrator as the previous ones at the moment.

It reaches out...

As much as I personally am not a fan of Holden, the main character, I have to admit how well he is always written into the books, he is not the chosen one, he doea not have a great destiny.

He's a dude, being played, pushed and pulled.

Otherwise this book keeps the consistently great world building, character development and stellar plot at full sail.