Babylon's Ashes

The sixth volume is the war and the recovery that follow the attack in Nemesis Games: a coalition of former enemies has to fight a faction that holds the transfer points while simultaneously keeping a damaged Earth fed. Told through a wide rotation of viewpoints, it is more about relief logistics and coalition politics than about combat — who gets supplied first, and what that decision costs politically.

Context: On the a16z Infra Reading List under The Expanse series, sixth of the nine volumes listed. It reads as the second half of Nemesis Games.

Connections

• a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
• James S.A. Corey — the author.
• Nemesis Games — volume five, which this continues directly.
• Persepolis Rising — volume seven, after a thirty-year jump.
• Governance — a coalition of rivals administering scarce relief is the book’s actual plot.
• Science Fiction — the genre page.
• a16z — the firm whose infra team curates the list.