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Leviathan Wakes

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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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.

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​

Adventure First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Space Science Fiction
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Amazing world building and attention to detail. Highly recommended to anyone who is a fan of hard science fiction.

SciFi at its best

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The book makes the TV series better and the TV series makes the book better. I’ve never experienced that before. Read and watch them at the same time and you’ll understand what I’m getting at.

Wow

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Heard The Expanse was good. yes it is.
Bring on book 2, can't wait to continue with the story and where it takes me.
The narrator is good and found the hour's just slipped away

What a start

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Excellent, well drawn characters, focussed story and brilliant world building that balances the inevitable exposition with a plot that rarely stands still. Terrific narration too.

As a fan of the show, checking out the book has been on the to-do list for a while but not a priority; I’m currently loading book 2 on extra credit. Fleshes out the world and the characters to such a degree that I’m glad I watched *first* because it could only have paled by comparison. Highly recommended.

Worth it, even if you’ve only seen the show

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I watched the first season of the TV series and as is often the case, the book is so much better. The structuring mechanism of first person narrative that alternates between the two main characters Miller and Holden works really well to hold everything together - in the TV series, I just had no idea what was going on. The story doesn't end up anywhere near where it starts off (in a good way) and the reader is taken across the galaxy on a series of mysteries that lead down some really messed up paths. You really do build a relationship with each of the two main characters and the world building is balanced. Sometimes I find too much detail about the world sends me off to sleep. The ending provides a good resolution but leaves enough unsaid for the reader to wonder.

Thrilling but don't make the mistake that I did

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