#73 in Science fiction
Cibola Burn
- 605
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
The fourth Expanse novel trades open space for a single colony world and borrows the shape of a frontier western, a tale of survival among quarrelling camps. That change of scale divides readers. The middle is slow and heavy with petty politics, and some find the villain one-dimensional. It picks up late, and the crew of the Rocinante remain good company, but some readers rank it below the first three.
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About the book
Cibola Burn is a 2014 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey and the fourth book in The Expanse series. It follows the crew of the Rocinante as they join the flood of humanity out into the galaxy, using the gates built by the ancient civilization which also produced the protomolecule. Cibola Burn is heavily influenced by western stories, departing slightly from the previous themes of the series to tell a story of survival on the frontier. At the release of Cibola Burn, Orbit Books announced that James S. A. Corey would write three additional books in the series to bring the series to nine novels and various short stories. Cibola Burn serves as the basis for the fourth season of the television series The Expanse, which was released by Amazon Video December 13, 2019.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 1,429 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 91% of the weight and the score stays at 8.3 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 14 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 1.4K | 99% |
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How long is Cibola Burn?
It has 605 pages — longer than 80% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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