Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

by James S.A. Corey

Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different.

One of the driving ideas in The Expanse is that, even as technology changes the living situations and abilities of humanity, the organism stays the same. There are conversations about old men losing their libido in Plato’s Republic. At least as long as there has been literature, humans have been acting like humans. That’s either inspiring or depressing.