Gods of Risk: An Expanse Novella

James S. A. Corey

Sep 2012 · The Expanse Book 10 · Sold by Orbit

About this ebook

A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Gods of Risk tells the story of Bobbie Draper following the events of Caliban's War. This story will be available in the complete Expanse story collection, Memory’s Legion.

HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about.

The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban's War
Abaddon's Gate
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon's Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat's Wrath
​Leviathan Falls

Memory's Legion

The Expanse Short Fiction
Drive
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
Auberon
The Sins of Our Fathers

Ratings and reviews

The Amazon series does a major rewrite on this novella...in a more dramatic way that centers on Gunny Draper's state of mind toward rejecting Martian elitism and hypocrisy of her upbringing in a warrior culture. Nephew David is a minor player in this plotline and Draper family dynamics... possibly showing a mellowing of Bobbie's militant mindset, valuing empathy and counterculture, and compromise she will later need as Captain Draper? Essentially, through David's foibles, she humanizes as Aunt Bonnie, evolving from a laconic badass to a pivotal leader (still badass) in the Expanse to help humanity to survive the 1300 gate-worlds. Even foreshadowing a truce with the instigators of protomolecule-maker-genocide perhaps? Overall, unless David's genius turns out to save the future, it's kind of a spurious tale. It left me confused and far too open-ended to the relevance of our protagonist heros: the Rociante Crew.

Is this the beginning to another story or was that the end? I loved the Expanse trilogy so I figured I'd try this even seeing that it was only 75 pages.

I went in expecting a more 'main' plotline, but was impressed with the world building. Decent short story

About the author

James S. A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. In addition to writing the novels and short stories of The Expanse, they wrote and produced the television series of the same name. Daniel lives with his family in the American southwest. Ty will tell you where he lives when and if he wants you to come over.