The Expanse · Book 6

Babylon's Ashes

Published
6 December 2016
Pages
538
ISBN-13
9780356504261
Type
novel
Cover of Babylon's Ashes

About this book

Babylon's Ashes followed Nemesis Games as the sixth entry in The Expanse, published in December 2016 -- a shift away from the series' earlier June release pattern -- and ran 538 pages.

Key facts about Babylon's Ashes

Babylon's Ashes is a novel by James S. A. Corey. Readers have had it since 6 December 2016. It runs to 538 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Babylon's Ashes. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780356504261 to find the main one.

Babylon's Ashes is book 6 of 10 in The Expanse series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with Leviathan Wakes (2011). Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 15 March 2022.

Additionally, James S. A. Corey writes The Captive's War as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Faith of Beasts is the latest published James S. A. Corey book on file, from 14 April 2026.

About James S. A. Corey

James S. A. Corey is the joint pen name of American authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, best known for The Expanse, a nine-novel space opera following the crew of the ice-hauler-turned-warship Rocinante through a solar system fractured by political conflict between Earth, Mars, and the Belt, and complicated by the arrival of an alien technology called the protomolecule. See every James S. A. Corey book in order.

Its place in The Expanse

Babylon's Ashes is book 6 in the The Expanse series. It follows Nemesis Games. It is followed by Persepolis Rising. 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…

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