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Book eight is Tiamat's Wrath.

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Laconia rules the gates,

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and the Rocinante crew is scattered.

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Holden is Duarte's prisoner.

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Naomi runs the underground.

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Bobbie and Alex fight on near Jupiter.

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And Elvi Okoye is sent to study

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the enemy that killed the gate builders.

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Four stories, and a war

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with something far older than Laconia.

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Spoilers ahead!

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Story one: Elvi Okoye,

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the scientist from Ilus.

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Laconia puts her in charge

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of a science mission,

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with her husband Fayez at her side.

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They visit dead systems beyond the gates.

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In one, they find

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a planet sized diamond that turns out

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to be a library,

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a record left by the gate builders.

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It shows what happened to them.

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The builders were wiped out by beings

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that live outside normal space.

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Duarte wants to fight them.

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At a system called Tecoma,

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his scientists fire an antimatter weapon

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into a neutron star.

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The star collapses,

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and the blast tears through the gates.

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Then the beings answer.

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In one instant,

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Medina Station and everything inside the Ring

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is wiped out.

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Story two: Holden and Teresa.

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Holden is kept in Duarte's palace,

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a prisoner who is allowed to walk the halls.

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He sees Duarte change.

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The protomolecule in his body

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has left him lost

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in his own mind.

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His teenage daughter Teresa is being raised

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to rule after him.

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Holden learns that Cortazar plans to make

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her his next experiment.

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When Cortazar goes too far,

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Duarte wakes up and kills him.

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Teresa has a secret friend

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in the woods,

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a scarred man who calls himself Timothy.

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He is really Amos,

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hiding on Laconia with a nuclear bomb,

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waiting for a chance to free Holden.

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Laconian guards shoot him dead.

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But his body is taken

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by the strange dogs,

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the same alien machines from Laconia's forests.

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They bring Amos back, changed.

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Story three: Bobbie and Alex.

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Flying the captured Laconian warship Gathering Storm,

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they raid Laconian supply lines near Jupiter.

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In one raid they take a cargo

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of antimatter weapons.

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Now they have something that might hurt

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the Heart of the Tempest,

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the warship that conquered the solar system.

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Alex draws the Tempest's attention

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while Bobbie flies in with the bomb.

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At the last moment she

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has to leave the shuttle and throw

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the bomb by hand,

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and she knows she won't get out.

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The Tempest is destroyed,

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and Bobbie dies with it.

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Across the solar system,

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people who had given up start

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to fight back.

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Story four: Naomi.

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She leads the resistance from hiding,

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moving from ship to ship.

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She makes her way to Auberon,

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one of the richest worlds beyond

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the gates, and takes over its underground.

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From there, she starts calling in help

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from every colony that Laconia has squeezed.

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Naomi gathers hundreds of ships

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for one surprise strike.

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They come through the Laconia gate together

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and destroy the alien platforms in orbit

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that build Laconia's warships.

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On the ground,

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Teresa uses Amos's beacon to call

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for a rescue,

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and she brings Holden out

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of his cell with her.

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The crew is together again,

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all but Bobbie.

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Book eight ends with Laconia broken

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but not beaten.

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Teresa leaves with the Rocinante,

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running from her father's empire.

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Duarte is gone,

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changed into something no one understands.

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And the beings outside space

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are waking up,

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while humanity is still fighting itself.

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Next up: book nine, Leviathan Falls.