The anti-hero, of sorts, is Detective Miller, a Belter whose missing-persons case takes on intergalactic significance and brings him in league with Holden and his crew on board the Rocinante. Our hero is James Holden, who finds himself captain of a small rogue vessel after an untraceable attack on his home ship leaves him and his crew stranded in space. There’s a class war ready to explode, and it doesn’t take much to set it off. The Belt is cramped, dirty, underfed, crime-ridden, and downtrodden.
Earth and Mars have wealth and military might. Belters are an underclass, dependent on Earth and Mars, filled with a discontented people who are agitating for freedom. Earth and Mars are the inner planets, two independent political forces, and then there’s the Belt - the asteroid belt that’s become a source of mining and resources in service to the inner planets. The world of The Expanse - TV and book - is set far enough into the future that human life has spread throughout the solar system. No, I haven’t seen the beginning of season 2 yet. The book series has also been adapted into a TV series on Syfy, season 2 of which just premiered this past week. The paperback I’ve been lugging around with me is HUGE – 560 pages, about the size of a doorstop, and must weigh close to a ton.
Corey (which is actually a pen name for two co-authors, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). Leviathan Wakes is book #1 in the ongoing series The Expanse, by James S. (Okay, it’s been 10 days, but that seems like forever relative to my normal reading pace). I just finished this massive book today, and I swear I’ve been reading it for EONS.
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