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Looking forward to continuing this series. https://youtu.be/D8g4-cskmwM
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Leviathan Wakes is a wonderfully engaging space opera - light on the hard sciences, heavy on characters, growth and conflict. It starts a bit slow, but as it picks up steam, you find an interesting world/universe situation, some very engaging characters, and event after even that keeps you excitable. Not going to write a novel about it, but suffice to say that I found this to be a very entertaining and well written book, and I will be continuing with the series post-haste.
This is an outrageously readable book that I enjoyed, and I'm still not sure I want to read further in the series. I think that's just my personal bias against sci-fi talking; I'm just not that into alien super-viruses, or epic spaceship battles, or the tech specs of gravity versus the human body.
This book definitely does the thing that great sci-fi should do--take its stuff and say, "what does this mean for being human?"--and it does it really well. The characters and their journeys, and espec ...more
This book definitely does the thing that great sci-fi should do--take its stuff and say, "what does this mean for being human?"--and it does it really well. The characters and their journeys, and espec ...more
Reading this one right after the Southern Reach trilogy felt like following up a Michelin-starred dinner with a Big Mac meal. There’s nothing wrong with this book per se, it’s a fun space opera with lots of actiony things, a mix of Firefly, Blade Runner, and a Heinlein Juvenile. It might work better in cinematic form, so I’ll probably give the Expanse TV show a try. As for the book series? Probably a miss from me.
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