Nemesis is a Greek goddess who enacts retribution against the arrogant. Like in a gold rush, colonists burn hard (accelerate heavily) to reach Ilus and other planets before other colonists can compete with them. Once they get there, they also discover technology from the Ring Builders, waiting to be turned on, and exploited. The planet is settled by both Belter refugees and a mining company from Earth who are scrambling to claim all the resources they can get their hands on. The title refers to Ilus, a planet rich in lithium, and the mining rush that follows. The Spanish never found cities of literal gold, but they did find many resources to extract, as well as the ruins of much older civilisations. The Seven Cities of Cíbola (or Gold) were mythical cities of the Americas filled with gold and other riches, which the Spanish colonists search in vain for. The title refers to the characters passing through the protomolecule's ring gate and the rapid forced braking they experience and the destruction that follows. Abaddon's GateĪbaddon is a Hebrew name for the abyss or pit of destruction, as well as an angel personifying the same. The title refers to the project which created hybrid human-protomolecule soldiers and the war fought with and over them. Caliban's WarĬaliban is a half human, half monster character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
#THE EXPANSE BOOK 2 SERIES#
At the beginning of the series the protomolecule is mostly treated as a terrifying alien threat, an incurable disease that turns humans into "vomit zombies" and breaks the laws of physics as it somehow flies the asteroid Eros until it crashes onto Venus. The title refers to the waking of the long-dormant protomolecule from Phoebe, moon of Saturn.
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The Leviathan is a sea monster in Judaism, most well known from its appearance in the Book of Job.