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    Persepolis Rising
    Persepolis Rising
    Persepolis Rising
    Audiobook20 hours

    Persepolis Rising

    Written by James S.A. Corey

    Narrated by Jefferson Mays

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    About this audiobook

    The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising The Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781501965630
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    • 4/5
      Part of the expanse saga. Good saga characters. I would not recomend it if you had not read or seen the previous books or series. Good performance by the reader.
    • 5/5
      Well written and well narrated. Particular praise goes to the accents, important to this series.
    • 5/5
      Outstanding

      Best audiobook I've ever listened to.
      Narrator is phenomenal and now anything read by someone else is second rate.
    • 5/5
      Great story, awesome narration. I recommend this book. Now going for the next two.
    • 5/5
      James Holden isn't the star of this book. In a strange way, Santiago Singh might fill that role.

      Hats of to Corey, it's hard to be 7 novels into a series yet still find ways to make it engaging and fresh.
    • 5/5
      love these books and this one lives up to my high expectations
    • 5/5
      Jefferson Mayes has a very smooth reading voice. He's very effective at conveying emotions of characters and evoking scenes from the story. The story itself, like the rest of The Expanse, is always full of small details becoming incredibly relevant later on. It's a wonderful series.
    • 4/5
      Book 7 of The Expanse series set 30 years after the events of the previous book sees the crew of the Rocinante about to part ways with Jim & Naomi heading off to enjoy some quiet time together after completing just one last run for the Transport Union. Things don’t quite work out as planned though as, after handing over captaincy to Bobbie as soon as they return, Laconia decides to make its presence felt in the grand scheme of things. My major gripe with this story involves the 30 year gap. So much time passed but nobody is doing anything different. The Roci is still running little missions for Drummer who’s still head of the Transport Union. The only change is for Avasarala but even she is still around. Not convinced either by the appointment of Singh to lead the occupation of Medina Station. Definitely feels like more of a set-up book for what’s to come as the series is reaching its conclusion (just two more volumes after this). Even so, I’m still looking forward to reading those final two entries so it couldn’t have been too bad.
    • 5/5
      This is the seventh book in The Expanse series, it takes place thirty years after the events in Babylon’s Ashes. Earth and Mars are part of a coalition and the Belt has come into its own power governing trade through the gate.============= SPOILERS ================The Roci is sent on an incidental mission to Freehold, where Holden renegotiates the Transport Union’s demands on Freehold, who would have died from those demands. Holden brings back Houston, their leader as prisoner. On returning, Holden and Noami decide to retire leaving the Roci to Bobbie as captain.The main plot revolves around Laconia, who has been experimenting with the protomolecule and developing new technologies. The Laconians invade with one ship, quickly taking over the Medina station, leaving Santiago Singh as governor, then heading for the inner planets, with another ship on-way to the gate. The Roci crew don’t have access to their ship and join Saba in the underground. Jim Holden is ultimately taken prisoner and transported to Laconia. The first Laconian ship was defeated in a costly series of battles, but not destroyed. The book closes with Holden arriving on Laconia as prisoner and the Laconians still a looming thread with their second ship near to arriving.Another twist is that when the Laconians use their protomolecule-based technologies, an odd black sphere appears on their primary ship and moves completely with the ship. Holden identified it as belonging to the people who destroyed the civilization that made the protomolecule.One problem is that after 30 years from the last book, the characters have aged, but there doesn’t seem to be any character growth in that time. It’s still the same characters, the book could have taken a month and it would be the same, the time frame only seems to provide an opportunity for the Laconian technology development.Aside from that, this is one of the better books in a while. It is a lot of action with some weird technologies thrown in.
    • 5/5
      It's wonderful to read a series that doesn't rehash the same plot over and over again, and doesn't get stupid and starting jumping the shark after the fifth or sixth volume, because the ideas are drying up, but the sales are still decent, so move that product.

      This series is highly intelligent, and the world-building and tech building is a beautiful thing to behold. Layer the characters over top of that, and the political and military machinations over that, and this becomes possibly my favourite SF series of all time.

      This book is no exception. And I simply love how the authors don't shy away from taking chances and making some big leaps.
    • 4/5
      The one in which James Holden and Naomi Nagata try to retire and live a quiet life - and fail.
    • 3/5
      Basically starts a new chapter in the ongoing universe. Some time skipped, and a new set of bad guys to work with. But the protomolecule tech is still driving the storyline.

      Fun, but not the best in the series by a long shot.
    • 4/5
      For most of The Expanse series, I find it to be smart, well-researched, and well-executed, containing strong characters who have enough development to prevent them from being caricatures. Then, I listened to the end of book six and all of book seven. Unfortunately, Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey has neither excellent execution nor strong characters.Because reading the series became a joint project, I reached out to my son to debate at length the plot and one character at the heart of my issues with Persepolis Rising. While we both conclude that the character is nothing but an archetype and that the plot suffers, for the first time, from predictability, I take it one step further. Much like my opinion about the anticlimactic ending of the previous book, I believe the authors became lazy. In doing so, they created a character that is the archetypal moral villain, so firmly convinced of his own righteousness that he is incapable of growth. The character contains no complexity, no moral flexibility that allows him to learn from his mistakes. Given the depth and development of the majority of the other characters in the series, this lack of development within this one person screams of laziness.Because this character is essentially a blueprint, the storyline in which he plays a significant role suffers from predictability. A lot. For the first time, I saw exactly how this story was going to unfold. Because this character is as complex as a piece of blank paper, I knew there would not be any plot twists. This character is completely incapable of the duplicity and moral ambiguity plot twists require. Thus, the story did occur exactly as I expected, something that has not been the case with the other books. In fact, part of what I love about the series is that it constantly keeps me guessing, and I usually have no idea what is going to happen. Not so here.What makes this such an egregious error is simply because it occurs in book seven. Had the first book or two had such an overly simplified character and predictable plot lines, that would make more sense to me. One expects authors’ writing to improve with each book, so one expects weaker writing and a lack of development in an author’s first few books. By the seventh book, I do not expect nor want poor writing. Sadly, Persepolis Rising gave me just that.
    • 5/5
      So begins the final three books in this series. A new player comes into control of the solar system thinking to save humanity from the forces that destroyed the makers of the proto-molecule. Unfortunately, while the solar system has finally managed to forge a new future, the new power hasn't learned the hard won wisdom of the home system. Now the heroes of the home front find themselves taking up the sword of rebellion. Leaders will fall and make sacrifices far beyond what is fair, but will it be enough to stop a deadly mistake from being made? Another great entry in this series.
    • 4/5
      Persepolis Rising is the seventh book in the ongoing Expanse series that started with Leviathan Wakes. Like the other books before it, the book focuses primarily on the crew of the Rocinante - James Holden, Naomi Nagata, Amos Burton, Alex Kemal, Bobbie Draper, and Clarissa Mao, and the continuing efforts of humanity to deal with the changes wrought by the alien protomolecule. Unlike the previous book, which all took place over the course of a fairly short time period, with only a handful of months at most between each book, Persepolis Rising takes place decades later, and all of the familiar personalities who populate the books thus far are all getting fairly advanced in age. Society has advanced as well, with colonies having been established on hundreds of the worlds now accessible through the alien gate ring and the Transport Union assuming the position of the de facto government of the rapidly expanding human sphere of influence Everything seems to be going swimmingly, when the splinter group of the Martian Navy, now calling themselves the Laconians, that seized control of one of the systems accessible through one of the gates and then sealed themselves off from the rest of humanity reemerges and sets the plot of the book into motion.As has become de rigeur for this series the book opens with a prologue that both gives a bit of world-building background and sets the stage for the rest of the volume. Focused on Cortázar, a scientist working for the Laconian government, the prologue establishes that the mutinous Navy men have been busy in the intervening years, building themselves massive buildings that are far in excess of their relatively small population's needs, with the idea that they will conquer and assimilate the rest of humanity and Laconia will become the new center of human government and commerce. This is run-of-the mill villainy, even with the apparent callback to Hitler's plans to build Germania as the center of his envisioned thousand year Reich, as dreams of empire have beguiled many nations in history. What indicates from the outset that Laconian society is rotten to the core is that they have been experimenting with the protomolecule that they stole in Babylon's Ashes, and to ensure that they have a steady supply of protomolecule to experiment upon, they have instituted a system in which people are sent to the "pens" and infected as punishment for even trivial offenses. Once you start condemning people to agonizing death by alien infection as punishment for things like sleeping on duty, it doesn't matter what other high-minded principles your society might espouse, your way of life is twisted and irredeemably evil. Right from the outset, the authors have given the reader a glimpse of the vile core at the heart of Laconian society.[More forthcoming]
    • 5/5
      This is a a great book...
    • 4/5
      First part is a bit slow, but second half is better. My main problem is around the number of ships used, the timing, etc... is just too unbelievable. The whole station director arc is also just too much: hard to believe at first and then when it's somewhat explained, it's just so improbable that it would have happened that way...
    • 5/5
      Excellent, picking up more on the world building and not just the fallout of science and politics.
    • 5/5
      Excellent, just excellent. Another page-turning, intriguing chapter in the Expanse series, and no excess baggage on this one! Only problem is they're addictive. Now I want to read the next one!
    • 4/5
      While I'm a fan of the Expanse series, this is my second least favorite. It's not a grim slog the way Cibola Burn was for long stretches, but, as the first book in the final trilogy of trilogies, it's a middle of a middle book. There's a lot of reconnecting to previous books, and, more so than any of the other books, a lot of holding off on major developments for the remaining two books in the series. The main evolution in the arc is a jump of several decades in time. Everyone is older (and one favorite character has died of old age). This time jump is necessary for the plot, but there's an artificiality to it. Given how busy the first 6 books were over the space of a few years, it appears that absolutely nothing of interest happened for the next 30 years. At least no one makes references to events we the reader know nothing about. I have not read the Expanse short stories yet.But even lesser Expanse is still an engaging read. It's no surprise it's not an entry point to the series, but neither is it time to get off the ride.
    • 5/5
      The time jump that sets this book up was jarring for me initially, but once I got past that I loved it. The whole series works as a set of three trilogies, with this being the first book of the final third. Tense, creative, and--like the rest of the books in this series--well-written with an eye for humanity's failings and collective triumphs. Really excited to see what happens next.
    • 4/5
      i was disappointed in this installment for the first time. the 30-year time jump suited the specific story being told, but not so much the characters, who seemed a bit on the defeated side even before stuff started to happen, contributing to a kind of general vibe of old and tired that pervaded everything. the main villain also seemed more of a cardboard stock figure than a real character. altogether, it's the first book in which it felt like there was a lot of filler and too little of the passionate intensity that generally drives the action in this series. maybe it's running out of ideas and it's time to stop? or maybe all the meat's reserved for the next book, since this one's mostly setup and is left open-ended, in which case the two books would have been better folded together, with a lot of this one cut as preamble. don't get me wrong, it's still good. it's just not up to the standard of the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      The seventh book of the series didn’t disappoint. It was a great idea to jump 30 years in the timeline, although sometimes it’s hardly visible on the main characters. If it’s possible the story even more action centred than the previous ones. Fast actions, good characters, great to see that one of the opponent, ‘negative’ character has the best character development. The book has an open ending so give me the next one!
    • 3/5
      With Persepolis Rising, The Expanse performs a thirty year time jump into the future, revealing new ideas, new plot points and an interesting world building development.Sadly, I wasn't enamoured with the first half or so, but the story picks up towards the end becomes incredibly tense, fast-paced and interesting. I would have wished for more character development, since most characters felt the same as they did in the last book, despite having aged thirty years.It's still a good read, and I think The Expanse is well worth it for any space opera fan.
    • 4/5
      Another great entry in this amazing saga. It was a little off putting at the beginning the whole 30 year jump, but I got used to it.
    • 5/5
      As usual the book was great. The series takes a dramatic turn as it steams towards the finish line.
    • 4/5
      The Expanse series continues with another installment that puts James Holden and his crew in dastardly peril, where they must fight long odds and work their political skills to their utmost just to survive. And although long, the book isn't as tedious as a couple of the earlier entries in the series. In fact, the story does something new with the band of adventurers.In Persepolis Rising, mutinying Martians who had taken over a solar system and prevented anyone from following are now returning. And they are returning in force, with technology from the proto-molecule that is vastly superior to anything the rest of humanity has. And their leader, Winston Duarte wants to be a benevolent dictator.For the first time since the first book, I got the feeling that the band was actually in danger of losing. Losing people. Losing ships. Losing the war. In previous books, bad things happened such as the near total destruction of Earth, but the Rocinante itself was always fine. When the Laconians enter the "slow zone" near the beginning of the book, the Rocinante crew has to sit by powerlessly. They are no match for the Laconians ships. It's clear from early on that this is not an underdog-who-will-ultimately-win kind of story.And that makes it more enjoyable than previous books.
    • 4/5
      The narrative jumps ahead several decades; many of the key characters are still around, but new people are taking over—and Bobbie is going to be the new captain when James Holden and Naomi Nagata retire, as they are preparing to do when the novel opens. Then, of course, it all goes to shit when an invasion changes the shape of the human race. The main villain, Winston Duarte, is a great example of an understandable but deeply evil person—not in the least dumb, but convinced of his right to rule others, to live forever, and to sacrifice anyone to the protomolecule if it helps him.
    • 5/5
      Persepolis Rising was well worth the wait. Much of the devastation in the Sol System caused by the Marcos Inaros and the Free Navy in the previous installments of this series has finally been turned around, peace has come to the Sol System and to the 1300 worlds that the Protomolecule-constructed gates has provided access to, and a new normal has been reached by the wide-flung human species in the 30 years that have elapsed since the last book. But Winston Duarte, the Martian military leader who absconded with 1/3 of the Martian fleet and armed Inaros and the Free Navy in the previous books has built a new dystopic utopian empire in the Laconian system and intends to export that "perfect" society, with himself as an near-immortal emperor. I couldn't put this book down and read it in its entirety in two sittings over a two-day period. The combination of space opera, human drama, and flawless writing made it impossible to set this book down.
      The writing team that comprises James S.A. Corey have consistently painted a future that is uncomfortable, messy, compelling, and very, very human throughout the Expanse series. All of my favorite characters were back, the stakes are incredibly high, and the chosen family that makes up the crew of the Rocinante are at their best in this book. I can't wait for the next installment.
    • 1/5
      I kept putting this book down to do Christmas prep. Not only is the setup outrageously improbable even for Space Opera, it really gets in the way of interesting story telling. Having a technically unbeatable opponent really limits narratives based on resistance to tyranny. Plus the idea of our geriatric leads being the most capable of carrying out terrorist attacks in an era of newer tech, is so sad. At least the stories in the earlier books were interesting and fun to read, not a slog to get to set up for the next episode.