The Expanse e-book collection resulted in 2021 with ninth entry Leviathan Falls, and the TV collection adaptation wrapped up after six seasons in 2022. And whereas Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck—who write collectively as James S.A. Corey—have nixed any return to the world of The Expanse, they’re nonetheless engaged on sci-fi initiatives collectively, as at the moment’s huge announcement attests.

Followers can sit up for the arrival of The Mercy of Gods, an area opera trilogy “that sees humanity preventing for its survival in a warfare as outdated because the universe itself,” in line with a press launch from writer Orbit. This e-book will kick off the Captive’s Warfare trilogy, and it will likely be launched August 6, 2024.

At this time’s announcement got here with a full plot abstract, which you’ll learn beneath:

How humanity got here to the planet referred to as Anjiin is misplaced within the fog of historical past, however that historical past is about to finish.

The Carryx—half empire, half hive—have waged wars of conquest for hundreds of years, destroying or enslaving species throughout the galaxy. Now, they’re dealing with an awesome and deathless enemy. The important thing to their survival could relaxation with the people of Anjiin.

Caught up in tutorial intrigue and affairs of the center, Dafyd Alkhor is happy simply to be an assistant to an excellent scientist and his celebrated analysis workforce. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human inhabitants and taking the perfect and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept together with them.

They’re dropped in the midst of a wrestle they barely perceive, set in a contest in opposition to the opposite captive species with extinction as the value of failure. Solely Dafyd and a handful of his companions see previous the Darwinian contest to the deeper sport that they need to play to outlive: studying to know—and manipulate—the Carryx themselves.

With a noble however suicidal human insurrection on one hand and unusual and murderous enemies on the opposite, the workforce pays a horrible value to turn out to be the trusted servants of their new rulers.

Dafyd Alkhor is a straightforward man swept up in occasions which might be past his management and extra huge than his creativeness. He’ll turn out to be the champion of humanity and its betrayer, probably the most hated man in historical past and the guardian of his individuals.

That is the place his story begins.

“I pitched Daniel an thought a few years in the past,” Franck stated in a Crowdcast saying the e-book (watch the complete replay right here). “It might need even been like 10 years in the past. However I pitched him this concept of the Ebook of Daniel, from the Outdated Testomony, however as a science fiction story. That’s finally what it’s. In some unspecified time in the future after I was pitching him the concept, he identified that there was a little bit contact of Ursula Le Guin in it, a little bit contact of Frank Herbert in it. So we began describing it because the disappointing love youngster of Frank Herbert and Ursula Le Guin [laughs] as a retelling of a biblical delusion.”

Added Abraham, “It was a extremely fascinating place to go after The Expanse. The Expanse had a lot in a specific slice of house opera that was type of between late Apollo 13 and form of early Buck Rogers that we spent plenty of time there. That is nonetheless house opera, but it surely’s such a really completely different place, a really completely different a part of the style. There’s some issues we get to do and play with we couldn’t have completed anyplace else.”

Right here’s the complete cowl for The Mercy of Gods; search for it to hit bookshelves on August 6, 2024.

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