Babylon's Ashes

Three months after the attack, the Free Navy controls the Belt and keeps throwing rocks at Earth. Marco strips Ceres and abandons it, and Michio Pa breaks with him to hand out supplies to the colonies. Fred Johnson dies of a stroke during an escape burn. Holden talks Earth, Mars and the OPA into a combined fleet, and Bobbie destroys Medina's rail guns. Naomi figures out that ships vanish when too much mass crosses a gate at once, and the coalition uses that to make Marco and his fleet disappear. Filip breaks with his father. Michio Pa takes over the new transport union, and the gates reopen.

1. ChangeSix episodes for one book

   The book has 15 point-of-view characters, the most in the series so far. With only six episodes, S6 trims a lot.

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2. ChangeDrummer instead of Michio Pa

   In the book, Michio Pa is the one who breaks with Marco and ends up leading the new transport union. On the show, that path belongs to Drummer.

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3. ChangeFred's death

   In the book, Fred Johnson dies of a stroke during a high-g burn while fleeing an ambush. On the show he was already dead.

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4. ChangeLaconia comes from elsewhere

   The scenes with young Cara on Laconia aren't in this book. The show took them from the story Strange Dogs.

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