The Mercy Of Gods - James S.A. Corey

Kajiimagi said:

New book from the Expanse team - Out August 6th.

'The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.

They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand – and manipulate – the Carryx themselves.

With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers.

Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people.

This is where his story begins.'

The Mercy of Gods

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees hum...

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Wonder if this is going to be set in the same universe as the expanse except way in the future? I haven't read the last book in the series. I picked it up but I don't remember the last few before the end and just haven't gotten around to rereading them.

I can see them maybe trying to do something like that. Maybe that's what this Carryx are the ones behind the gate stuff, and they're still out there, and the deathless enemy race is the weird transdimensional aliens.

Could be pretty cool if that's the case.

Kajiimagi said:

New book from the Expanse team - Out August 6th.

'The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.

They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand – and manipulate – the Carryx themselves.

With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers.

Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people.

This is where his story begins.'

The Mercy of Gods

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees hum...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Wonder if this is going to be set and basically the same universe as the expanse except way in the future? I haven't read the last book in the series. I picked it up but I don't remember the last few before the end and just haven't gotten around to rereading them.

I can see them maybe trying to do something like that. Maybe that's what this Carryx are the ones behind the gate stuff, and they're still out there, and the enemy alien races the weird transdimensional aliens.

Could be pretty cool if that's the case, or an epic M Night shalama damma ding dong twist!

Dr.Retarded said:

Wonder if this is going to be set and basically the same universe as the expanse except way in the future? I haven't read the last book in the series. I picked it up but I don't remember the last few before the end and just haven't gotten around to rereading them.

I can see them maybe trying to do something like that. Maybe that's what this Carryx are the ones behind the gate stuff, and they're still out there, and the enemy alien races the weird transdimensional aliens.

Could be pretty cool if that's the case, or an epic M Night shalama damma ding dong twist!

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Doesn't sound like it from the blurb. And yes, the last book includes an epilogue a few centuries/thousand years in the future, so you have a guess about the shape of the human diaspora.

Ukerric said:

Doesn't sound like it from the blurb. And yes, the last book includes an epilogue a few centuries/thousand years in the future, so you have a guess about the shape of the human diaspora.

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Yeah like I said I didn't read the last one yet. I just thought that might actually be kind of a neat concept, that the two alien races are out there in different galaxies warring against one another still. Humans having evolved way further into the future and end up getting dragged into the conflict. It would be cool to kind of explain a whole lot about those two civilizations if they were trying to expand their original universe.

I'd have to read the book but I mean is it possible?

Dr.Retarded said:

Yeah like I said I didn't read the last one yet. I just thought that might actually be kind of a neat concept, that the two alien races or so out there in different galaxies warring against one another still. Humans having evolved way further into the future, and I'm getting dredged up into the conflict.

I'd have to read the book but I mean is it possible?

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Extremely unlikely. Without a spoiler, it's fairly evident that the "hive" species that's the main aliens behind the Expanse universe is nothing like the one described here.

Ukerric said:

Extremely unlikely. Without a spoiler, it's fairly evident that the "hive" species that's the main aliens behind the Expanse universe is nothing like the one described here.

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I guess the whole Hive thing was what I thought the gate building race was essentially, unless I completely forgot the original books, which is probably what's happened. It's been a good number of years since I read them all, apart from the finale.

I guess I'm just surprised those two guys are going to do on other big sci-fi epic series or something. I mean hey if that's what you enjoy then so be it, but my thought was if they were going to do something of the sort, maybe it was a tie into their previous series.

Who knows it still might be! Maybe it's just so far in the future for humans are encountering other aliens which obviously seems to be the case. Could be pretty cool, and as much as I did enjoy the last series I'll probably pick these up.

Cad said:

Sounds really interesting, I wonder how the woke authors are going to insert present day politics into it.

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Did they go woke recently? Sorry but I didn't necessarily detect that from their novels from the expanse series. The show maybe, but I don't believe the books stank of wokeness.

Cad said:

Just google the authors and their politics. I don't think the books were "too bad" in terms of today, but the shows were. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck were EP's on the show. The oppressor/oppressed narrative on the show was absolutely unmistakeable. The girl-boss characters were the same on the show and books.

Hopefully this one is good, with the complete-fantasy setting with no Earth setting, hopefully it's just space opera.

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I don't typically look up an author or a director unless I partake of a book or a movie and then question why that fictional content is the way it is from a political standpoint. If I'm obviously seeing somebody pushing a message I'll go and look and see what the person's background is. I never thought I had to do it with those guys.

In all honesty I don't remember the last two seasons because they were bad, but the first three or whatever were great. I don't know much about the two authors, but like I said the books are pretty fantastic. If they're doing a Stephen King deal, oh well I guess that's perfect for the course on this day and age.

Joe Abercrombie who was my favorite fantasy author and the current ERA seems to have gone off the deep end with his last series, and as many times as I've read his books, I have no burning desire to finish the current series.

I think sometimes what happens with these folks is that an agent is telling them you'll make it a lot more money if you make certain to cater towards that larger market, and I guess when the dollar signs roll in, they do.