Description:In
the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are
struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge
between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante
have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.
In
the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt
have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a
history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a
hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to
enforce it.
New technologies clash with old as the history of
human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation.
But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed
have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity --
and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever...