Cibola Burn

The fourth volume of The Expanse: with a thousand new systems open, the first settlers get to a habitable world ahead of the company that holds the legal charter for it, and the book is the resulting fight over jurisdiction on a frontier where nobody has standing to adjudicate anything. Meanwhile the planet’s own dormant machinery starts responding to the intrusion. It is the land-rights-and-no-operator volume of the series.

Context: On the a16z Infra Reading List under The Expanse series, fourth of the nine volumes listed. It follows directly from the gate opened in Abaddon’s Gate.

Connections

• a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
• James S.A. Corey — the author.
• Abaddon’s Gate — volume three, which opens the gate this book goes through.
• Nemesis Games — volume five.
• Governance — the dispute is a governance problem: two legitimate claims and no arbiter.
• Science Fiction — the genre page.
• a16z — the firm whose infra team curates the list.