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Abaddon's Gate

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Abaddon's Gate
Full titleAbaddon's Gate (The Expanse, Book 3)
AuthorJames S.A. Corey
Published2013
Pages571
RecommendedOnce
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Why it’s on the listThe third volume of The Expanse, and the one that changes the map: an alien ring opens onto a hub connecting more than a thousand systems, policed by machinery that enforces hard limits on speed and energy, and three fleets arrive at once with no jurisdiction and no protocol and get themselves trapped. A capacity-and-rate-limit story wearing a space-opera coat.

Where I heard about it

  • The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, A tier in the “Sci-fi — Very good books” section, third of the nine volumes listed under The Expanse.

About this edition

The series is best read in order — this book presumes Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War.

Connections

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