La cólera de Tiamat

Thirteen hundred gates have been opened to planetary systems throughout the galaxy. But as humanity builds an interstellar empire on alien ruins, mysteries and threats do not cease to haunt it. In dead systems, where doors lead to places stranger than the alien planets themselves, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate quest to discover the causes of a genocide that occurred before human existence, and also to find the weapons necessary to wage a war. war against forces that defy the unimaginable. But will he be able to pay the price for such knowledge? In the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to bear the burden of her father's divine ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are just two of the dangers in a palace full of intrigues, but Teresa knows how to think for herself and also has secrets that not even her father, the emperor, is capable of suspecting. And in the rest of the human domain, the scattered crew of the Rocinante carry out guerrilla actions against the authoritarian Duarte regime. The memory of the order of the past is increasingly distant, and the future under the eternal dictatorship of Laconia, which will lead to a battle that humanity can only lose, seems more and more certain. Because courage and ambition are not enough to face what lies between worlds...