The Churn

Who could Timmy in Baltimore be? Well let's see... he's a sociopath, very comfortable with violence, balding, and has a strange relationship to morality. Oh yeah, and ...

Gods of Risk

What's going on with Bobbie's nephew? Well, he's gotten himself into some trouble with some gangsters. But considering who Bobbie is, it turns out that the gangsters h...

The Butcher of Anderson Station

What's up with Fred? Well, it depends when you ask. If you ask him when he is butchering Anderson Station, he's not doing great! If you ask him while he's being interr...

Drive

We read the charming recollections of the famed inventor Solomon Epstein, as he is slowly flattened by his own invention. We are Alice Sullivan, Micah Sparkman, and Je...

Cibola Burn: Ch 55-Epilogue

Holden and the crew of the Rocinante make it out alive from the alien death world (again) with a psycho prisoner on board (again). The future of Ilus is uncertain, whi...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 50-54

Holden's enemies and friends follow him to the strange place where the alien subway deposited him. Then they all shoot it out, mostly with each other, but eventually t...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 46-49

Miller has a new body! It is less noirish and more murderbottish than his last one, but it helps Holden get close to the mysterious anomaly they're searching for. Mean...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 41-45

Elvi figures out why Holden is immune to the proto-algic eyeball invader: his cancer meds. Turns out getting thoroughly irradiated is not without some long-term benefi...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 36-40

As Elvi races to find a solution to the eye algae, Alex arms Basia and sends him to attack Havelock's space militia. Shooting at people in zero-G is not that different...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 31-35

Things are not going well on Ilus. Between the planetwide cataclysm, the unending threat of the poisonous death slugs, the disabling of all fusion reactions, and the a...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 26-30

Havelock realizes that Naomi, now his captive, is cooler than anybody on his side. He doesn't have much time to ponder this, because the planet explodes. This poses a ...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 21-25

Back on the Rocinante, the crew gets an an unfortunate downgrade when Basia joins as a prisoner, and Naomi is captured by Havelock (of all people!). Holden tries to st...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 16-20

Violence escalates on Ilus/New Terra as an attempted ambush is ambushed. There are increasing signs of the activity of non-human machinery on the planet, but Holden is...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 11-15

Holden arrives on Ilus and begins trying to make peace between the warring factions. It doesn't help that his extraterrestrial ride-along is waking up every dormant en...

Cibola Burn: Chs. 5-10

The cycle of violence escalates on Ilus. Holden is almost there, and when he gets there, he'll add his signature touch to the mix: doing violence, but feeling bad abou...

Cibola Burn: Prologue-Ch. 4

Let's read about the settlers of Ilus, humanity's first extrasolar colony. The humans have brought everything they need with them, including oppressive corporations an...

Abaddon's Gate: Chs. 48-Epilogue

Bull makes his last stand. Then Holden attempts a series of last stands, each last-er than the last, but he keeps surviving. Clarissa decides that Anna's pacifism make...

Abaddon's Gate: Chs. 41-47

Holden, Anna, and Bull team up to launch a counter counter coup. Anna uses a message of peace and cooperation, while Holden and Bull use a message of bullets and explo...

Abaddon's Gate: Chs. 36-40

Holden is reunited with his crew on the Behemoth. They're finally safe as long as there isn't a coup. There is a coup (technically a counter-coup), led by Ashford and ...

Abaddon's Gate: Chs. 29-35

Bull adjusts to his new situation. It involves a mech. Holden is extracted from his mind-bending cosmic experience and returned an experience he's quite comfortable wi...