James Corey

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of the Expanse comes the second book in the Captive's War series - a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran's command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered. Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives, is feared and despised by the very people he champions. Ruthless in carving out his niche in the eternal war machine of the empire, he will reshape human nature itself as a tool for their alien masters' use. But Dafyd's loyalty is not what it seems. The Swarm, an agent of the Carryx's deathless enemy, has been smuggled into the Carryx world-palace along with the human slaves. Its mission: discover a way to bring down the empire's eternal reign. But the longer it lives among and within humanity, the more it forgets that it is a weapon. As the human captives spread through the battlefronts of empire, the awesome power of the Carryx becomes clear. And with it, a desperate plan for their destruction. But empires hide secrets, and even the deathless enemy may not be what it appears . . .

A brand-new epic adventure featuring Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia Organa. The action begins after the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. When the Empire threatens the galaxy's new hope, will Han, Luke, and Leia become its last chance? When the mission is to extract a high-level rebel spy from the very heart of the Empire, Leia Organa knows the best man for the job is Han Solo-something the princess and the smuggler can finally agree on. After all, for a guy who broke into an Imperial cell block and helped destroy the Death Star, the assignment sounds simple enough. But when Han locates the brash rebel agent, Scarlet Hark, she's determined to stay behind enemy lines. A pirate plans to sell a cache of stolen secrets that the Empire would destroy entire worlds to protect-including the planet where Leia is currently meeting with rebel sympathizers. Scarlet wants to track down the thief and steal the bounty herself, and Han has no choice but to go along if he's to keep everyone involved from getting themselves killed. From teeming city streets to a lethal jungle to a trap-filled alien temple, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, and their daring new comrade confront one ambush, double cross, and firestorm after another as they try to keep crucial intel out of Imperial hands. But even with the crack support of Luke Skywalker's x-wing squadron, the Alliance heroes may be hopelessly outgunned in their final battle for the highest of stakes: the power to liberate the galaxy from tyranny or ensure the Empire's reign of darkness forever.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. Invasion is only the beginning . . . The Carryx - part empire, part hive - has waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy in its con?ict with an ancient and deathless enemy. When they descend on the isolated world of Anjiin, the human population is abased, slaughtered and put in chains. The best and brightest are abducted, taken to the Carryx world-palace to join prisoners from a thousand other species. Dafyd Alkhor, assistant to a prestigious scientist, is captured along with his team. Even he doesn't suspect that his peculiar insight and skills will be the key to seeing past their captors ' terrifying agenda. Swept up in a con?ict beyond his control and vaster than his imagination, Dafyd is poised to become humanity's champion - and its betrayer. This is where his story begins.

Jim Holden velí lodi, ktorá ťaží ľad v prstencoch Saturnu a rozváža ho k staniciam v Páse asteroidov. Spolu s posádkou narazí na opustenú loď Scopuli, kde mu do rúk padne tajomstvo, o aké nestál. Tajomstvo, pre ktoré je niekto ochotný zabíjať. Detektív Miller hľadá medzi miliardami ľudí jedno dievča, ktoré má šťastie, že jeho rodičia sú dosť bohatí, aby si pátranie mohli dovoliť. Stopa ho zavedie k Scopuli a Jimovi Holdenovi, a on si postupne uvedomí, že dievčina môže byť kľúčom k všetkému.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. Invasion is only the beginning . . . The Carryx - part empire, part hive - has waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy in its con?ict with an ancient and deathless enemy. When they descend on the isolated world of Anjiin, the human population is abased, slaughtered and put in chains. The best and brightest are abducted, taken to the Carryx world-palace to join prisoners from a thousand other species. Dafyd Alkhor, assistant to a prestigious scientist, is captured along with his team. Even he doesn't suspect that his peculiar insight and skills will be the key to seeing past their captors ' terrifying agenda. Swept up in a con?ict beyond his control and vaster than his imagination, Dafyd is poised to become humanity's champion - and its betrayer. This is where his story begins.

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series is available in this collection - including a brand-new novella. Now a major television series on Prime Video. Contents: Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station The Churn Gods of Risk The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers For more fiction from James S. A. Corey, check out the international bestselling Expanse series: Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath Leviathan Falls

Pryč s vykořisťovateli ze Země a z Marsu! Lidstvo už osídlilo celou sluneční soustavu, ale ke hvězdám stále nedosáhne. A možná je to tak dobře, protože lidská povaha se za těch několik staletí vůbec nezměnila – zatímco jedni bojují o moc, druzí musí zápasit o holý život. Křehkou rovnováhu mezi pozemskou vládou, nenasytnými korporacemi a revolucionáři z vnějších planet může narušit i jedna malá loď dovážející led k asteroidům Pásu, zvlášť když její kapitán Jim Holden se svou posádkou narazí na tajemství, pro které je kdosi schopen zabíjet ve velkém. Nerozpoutají kvůli němu pozemšťané a marťané vesmírnou válku? A jak s tím vším souvisí dívka z bohaté rodiny, po které mezi miliardami lidí pátrá detektiv Miller a jejíž stopa vede právě k Holdenovi a jeho plavidlu? První díl oceňované sci-fi ságy, která těží z oblíbenosti žánru space opery a dočkala se i úspěšné seriálové adaptace. ************************ interpret: Ondřej Rychlý, Jiří Vyorálek, Anežka Šťastná, Zdeněk Maryška *********************** délka nahrávky: 20 hodin 27 minut

The biggest SF series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S. A. Corey's Hugo Award-winning Expanse series. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte's missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before. As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win. But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. The Expanse series: Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

Laconská říše je v troskách a třináct set slunečních soustav se konečně zbavilo nadvlády Winstona Duarta. Jenže prastarý nepřítel, který zničil stavitele bran, se znovu probouzí. Posádka Rosinanty se spolu s Jamesem Holdenem snaží zajistit lidstvu alespoň nějakou budoucnost. Zatímco se nepředstavitelné síly chystají zbavit vesmír lidské přítomnosti, Holden se svými nečekanými spojenci získá poslední zoufalou šanci sjednotit celé lidstvo. Možnost vytvořit galaktickou civilizaci bez válek, politikaření, lží a tajemství – pokud zvítězí.

9. díl série Expanze Laconská říše je v troskách a třináct set slunečních soustav se konečně zbavilo nadvlády Winstona Duarta. Jenže prastarý nepřítel, který zničil stavitele bran, se znovu probouzí. Posádka Rosinanty se spolu s Jamesem Holdenem snaží zajistit lidstvu alespoň nějakou budoucnost. Zatímco se nepředstavitelné síly chystají zbavit vesmír lidské přítomnosti, Holden se svými nečekanými spojenci získá poslední zoufalou šanci sjednotit celé lidstvo. Možnost vytvořit galaktickou civilizaci bez válek, politikaření, lží a tajemství – pokud zvítězí.

A laconiai birodalom válságban van az uralkodó, Winston Duarte eltűnése után. Ráadásul feléledt az ősi ellenség is, amely elpusztította a kapuépítőket, és a világmindenség így újra veszélybe kerül. Az Adro halott rendszerében Elvi Okoye egy tudományos küldetés élén bármi áron igyekszik kideríteni, kik, vagy mik lehettek a kapuépítők, és mi semmisíthette meg őket, még ha ezzel menthetetlenül be is sározza magát. A kíméletlen Aliana Tanaka ezredes parancsot kap, hogy bármi áron kerítse elő az eltűnt uralkodót. A Rocinante fedélzetén pedig James Holden és legénysége minden erejét beveti azért, hogy az idáig vezető események romjaiból új jövőt kovácsoljanak az emberiség számára, miközben nem is sejtik, hogy a megállíthatatlan Tanaka csak egy lépéssel jár mögöttük. De vajon sikerülhet-e az, ami a történelem során még soha: a túlélés érdekében egyesítheti-e az emberiség az erőit a felfoghatatlanul idegen ellenségekkel szemben?  

This special 10th anniversary edition celebrates the revolutionary first book of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series - a modern masterwork of science fiction with over 4 million copies sold worldwide. NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES 'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be' George R. R. Martin Humanity has colonised the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew discover a derelict ship called the Scopuli, they suddenly find themselves in possession of a deadly secret. A secret that someone is willing to kill for, and on an unimaginable scale. War is coming to the system, unless Jim can find out who abandoned the ship and why. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money - and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and Holden, they both realise this girl may hold the key to everything. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries and secret corporations, and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. The Expanse is the biggest science fiction series of the last decade and is now a major TV series.

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL SERIESThirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortazar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule - and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough . . . The Expanse series: Leviathan WakesCaliban's WarAbaddon's GateCibola BurnNemesis GamesBabylon's AshesPersepolis RisingTiamat's WrathPraise for the Expanse: 'The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire' NPR Books'As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form' io9.com'Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights' wired.com'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' Library Journal'This is the future the way it's supposed to be' Wall Street Journal'Tense and thrilling' SciFiNow

Galaxis szerte ezerháromszáz kapu nyílt a különböző naprendszerekbe. Ám miközben az emberiség egy idegen civilizáció romjain építgeti csillagközi birodalmát, az ősi rejtélyek és az új fenyegetések egyre veszedelmesebbé válnak. A halott rendszerekben, ahová a gyűrűkapuk vezetnek, még az idegenek lakta bolygóknál is különösebb dolgokra lelnek a felfedezők. Elvi Okoye kétségbeesetten kutatja a még az emberek megjelenése előtt zajlott hajdani népirtás eszközeit, és fegyvereket keres az elképzelhetetlen határait súroló erők ellen. Az ilyen tudásnak azonban felfoghatatlan ára van. A birodalom szívében Teresa Duarte arra készül, hogy átvegye édesapja isteni magasságokba törő terveinek terhét. A szociopata tudós, Paolo Cortazár és a fogolyként tartott James Holden csupán két veszélyforrás az intrikáktól nyüzsgő palotában, de Teresa a saját feje után megy, és olyan titkokat rejteget, amelyekről még apja, az uralkodó sem sejt semmit. Az emberiség birodalmában szétszóródva pedig a Rocinante legénységének tagjai szerveznek bátor ellenállást Duarte autokrata rendszerével szemben. A régi világ emléke lassan elenyészik, és egyre biztosabbnak tűnik Laconia örökös, megtörhetetlen uralma - ezzel együtt pedig egy olyan háború lehetősége, amelyből az emberiség csakis vesztesként jöhet ki. Mert a világok között megbúvó rémség ellen a bátorság és a nagyravágyás semmire sem elég...

Galaxis szerte ezerháromszáz kapu nyílt a különböző naprendszerekbe. Ám miközben az emberiség egy idegen civilizáció romjain építgeti csillagközi birodalmát, az ősi rejtélyek és az új fenyegetések egyre veszedelmesebbé válnak. A halott rendszerekben, ahová a gyűrűkapuk vezetnek, még az idegenek lakta bolygóknál is különösebb dolgokra lelnek a felfedezők. Elvi Okoye kétségbeesetten kutatja a még az emberek megjelenése előtt zajlott hajdani népirtás eszközeit, és fegyvereket keres az elképzelhetetlen határait súroló erők ellen. Az ilyen tudásnak azonban felfoghatatlan ára van. A birodalom szívében Teresa Duarte arra készül, hogy átvegye édesapja isteni magasságokba törő terveinek terhét. A szociopata tudós, Paolo Cortazár és a fogolyként tartott James Holden csupán két veszélyforrás az intrikáktól nyüzsgő palotában, de Teresa a saját feje után megy, és olyan titkokat rejteget, amelyekről még apja, az uralkodó sem sejt semmit. Az emberiség birodalmában szétszóródva pedig a Rocinante legénységének tagjai szerveznek bátor ellenállást Duarte autokrata rendszerével szemben. A régi világ emléke lassan elenyészik, és egyre biztosabbnak tűnik Laconia örökös, megtörhetetlen uralma – ezzel együtt pedig egy olyan háború lehetősége, amelyből az emberiség csakis vesztesként jöhet ki. Mert a világok között megbúvó rémség ellen a bátorság és a nagyravágyás semmire sem elég…

Persepolis Rising is the seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series. In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the ageing gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance, still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity - and the power to enforce it. New technologies clash with old, as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient pattern of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity - and of the Rocinante - unexpectedly and for ever . . .