We’ll find our own way back to them” - since they were writing the second book, Caliban’s War. The pair even knew Leviathan Falls’ last line - Naomi musing, “The stars are still there.

The ending is equal parts heart-wrenching and hopeful, and it’s what Abraham and Franck have been building toward for more than a decade. Once the ring space is cleared, Holden uses the last of his strength to destroy the gates, making an executive decision for all of humanity in order to save them - a bleak irony that is not lost on him. Naomi and Amos head for Sol, while Alex says goodbye to his found family to be with his biological family in the Nieuwestad system, taking the Roci with him. By injecting himself with the protomolecule, Holden is able to seize control of the ring station in order to keep the dark gods at bay long enough for everyone - including the Roci crew - to evacuate the ring space. Co-authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together under the Corey pen name, tell Polygon that the TV show will provide a “good resolution” to the on-screen story, but it’s only in Leviathan Falls that fans can see how James Holden and his Roci family’s full story artfully comes to a close.Īfter decades of fighting to democratize information and unite humanity, Holden is forced to go against these values in order to save the human race from succumbing to Duarte and the ring builders’ plans to subsume humanity into their hive mind. Readers will get one final trip into The Expanse’s world when the upcoming novella The Sins of Our Father is released in March 2022, and fans of the television adaptation will also get a sixth and final season, which premieres on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. Corey’s The Expanse series ended in November with the release of Leviathan Falls. After 10 years and nine novels, James S.A.

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