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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1), by James S.A. Corey

when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.

Something we come back to over and over in the series is human nature. As in what is human nature? Curiosity? Tribalism? Kindness? Violence? There are a lot of answers that fit, and (we hope) a viewpoint somewhere in the books that champions pretty much any of them.

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Stefan Redford

More true words have never been written. We are the proverbial cat and curiosity will get us one day.....if it hasn't already and we just can't see it.

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Alexis

In my opinion all of those things can be found elsewhere; they might be features of the human experience, but they aren't the essence, because they aren't what defines us as separate. What does is wha…

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