Abaddon's Gate

Its place in The Expanse

Abaddon's Gate is book 3 in the The Expanse series. It follows Caliban's War. It is followed by Cibola Burn. See the full The Expanse reading order.

Two hundred years from now, humanity has spread across the solar system — Earth, a crowded and politically fractious Mars, and the asteroid Belt, whose miners and dockworkers live under the thumb of both. When a conspiracy on an ice hauler triggers a chain of events involving a missing girl, a protomolecule that rewrites the rules of biology, and the fragile balance between three rival powers, a rag-tag salvage crew on the gunship Rocinante and a jaded Belter detective get pulled into events that will decide…