"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. AN OLD ENEMY RETURNS 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,...

At a time when the number of Dragonriders has fallen too low for safety and only one Weyr trains the creatures and their riders, the Red Star approaches Pern, threatening the planet with disaster.

"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...

On a planet inhabited by humans and aliens, preparations are underway to resist an invasion from outside. The hero is diplomat Bren Cameron, whose skills as a translator have maintained harmony between humans and aliens.

With the discovery of Aivas, the artificial intelligence hidden for centuries in Pern's southern continent, the residents of the third planet of the sun called Rukbat have learned how to end the threat posed by the periodic fall of Thread from the erratic red star that orbits the planet. Despite the abundance of rediscovered knowledge, new dangers and old fears surface, forcing Dragonriders, Holders, and Craftmasters all to reconsider their purpose...

Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.

Pern was a beautiful planet, Earth-like enough to feel like home, yet unspoiled by the industrial development and interstellar wars that had ravaged the other planets of humankind. And the few thousand colonists who came to Pern intended to keep it that way. They staked their claims on the land and settled down to build a low-tech, agricultural paradise on the world they had loved at first sight. Then disaster struck. Deadly spores fell like silver...

Pellar, a gifted tracker and orphan, accompanies Masterharper Zist on a secret mission to the Natalon coal-mining camp, where they discover a group of disillusioned workers who seem to have lost all hope.

"XO, the greedy and ultimately murderous corporate architects of humanity's first Mars base, made a costly mistake...they left Frank Kittredge alive. And now XO will do anything to keep their secrets safe. If there's one thing in Frank's favor, it's this, he's always been prepared to go to the extreme to get the job done. That's how he ended up on Mars in the first place. It just might be his ticket back. In this sequel to the terrifying sci-fi thriller,...

The greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction.