These humans also haven't really changed much - there's still a deep hatred or at least a good bit of prejudice found between those born and working under gravity (Earthers and Martians) and the Belters. What you get with Leviathan Wakes are humans, spread out to Mars and the outer planets, drilling and mining and distilling and all the other day-to-day activities you might expect if we ever reach the metals and other valuable commodities found in the asteroid belts and moons of our solar system. And there are no sub-micron dual-array gravitonic torpedoes with quantum detonation packages.

There's no super-technology that has put humans on other planets. There's no complex alien-human relationship that must be explained up-front. The author can provide it, but I don't want it in a funnel for fast delivery.Īnd that's why I absolutely loved Leviathan Wakes.

I don't want a 50-page essay that sets up how the current government came to be or how some life-changing technology was developed - that stuff, for me at least, should blend into the background of the story and simply be part of the universe the characters are living in. What I don't like so much are novels that require a dictionary to explain all the made up jargon or tell me how to pronounce a character's name. novels with well-developed worlds, solid technology that fits and makes sense (as much as sci-fi can), and larger-than-life characters that may or may not start out that way. For me, I love the world-building found in space opera. We all know that science fiction is too huge a theme to ever be accurately and completely described, but sci-fi readers likely have their favorite sub-genres. Now the only problem is I have to wait another year to read the second installment in The Expanse series, Caliban's War. The book was released a week ago, and it took me exactly seven days to finish all 561 pages. Corey (pen name for co-authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), I put it on my *Watch For *list.

I'm a sucker for space opera, and when I began to hear rumblings and rumors about Leviathan Wakes, a new novel from James S.

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