Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Eye on New Releases for December 6, 2016


 (Book six of The Expanse)

Synopsis:
"A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.

James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network. 

But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny, and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante's problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity."


 (Story Collection)

Table of Contents:
Fiction
Muse
Slipping
Confirm / Ignore
Branded
Smileys
Princess
My Insect Skin
Parking
Pop Tarts
The Green
Litmash
Easy Touch
Algebra
Unathi Battles the Black Hairballs
Dear Mariana
Riding with the Dream Patrol
Unaccounted
Tankwa-Karoo
Exhibitionist
Dial Tone
Ghost Girl
Nonfiction
Adventures in Journalism
All the Pretty Corpses
Judging Unity
Inner City
On Beauty: A Letter to My Five-Year-Old Daughter
 
 
(Third and final book of The Alchemy Wars)

Synopsis:
"I am the mechanical they named Jax.

My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim.

But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening.

Our time has come. A new age is dawning."