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The Expanse

Leviathan Wakes

James S. A. Corey

2011

Space OperaHard Sci-FiMysteryThriller

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. W…

Published
2011

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Plot4/5
Character3/5
Prose2/5
Ideas3/5
World4/5
Structure2/5

A plot-driven with strong world, tense and immersive read.

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