The Captive's War · Book 1
The Mercy of Gods
- Published
- 6 August 2024
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780316525572
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Mercy of Gods (August 2024) opens James S. A. Corey's The Captive's War at 496 pages, following a group of scientists on a conquered colony world forced to prove their usefulness to the alien Carryx empire or be discarded.
Its place in The Captive's War
The Mercy of Gods is book 1 in the The Captive's War series. It is followed by Livesuit. See the full The Captive's War reading order.
Years after wrapping up The Expanse, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck returned to space opera with a darker, stranger premise: what happens after humanity loses first contact, badly. The Carryx, an ancient empire of alien conquerors who have been subjugating species across the galaxy for millennia, arrive at Earth and Mars and simply take over — not with a war humanity has any chance of winning, but with an occupation designed to fold the conquered into the Carryx's vast, competitive imperial machine. The Mercy of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316525572
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316525596