
Leviathan Wakes
Orbit · Paperback · June 15, 2011
From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, propulsive space opera with enough dread to keep the lights on.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Sci-Fi Crime, Hard Sci-Fi
- Published
- Orbit, June 15, 2011
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From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.
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Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin Hugo Award Winner for Best Series 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
Deep Space Dread
A serious, propulsive space opera with enough dread to keep the lights on.
Come here for
- classic space-opera momentum
- horror-tinged action
Expect
- travel as ordeal
- big-scale tension
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 93% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Crime | 50% |
| Hard Sci-Fi | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Alien Contact
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- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- James S. A. Corey
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- June 15, 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure