Leviathan Wakes

Paperback, 592 pages

English language

Published June 2, 2011 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-1-84149-988-8
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ASIN:
1841499889
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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. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.

Holden and Miller …

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Em va agradar més la sèrie!

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Aviam, la sèrie és espectacular. Suposo que saber què passarà es menja el suspens, les engrunes que la història va posant i amb les que va afegint un vessant inesperat al gènere detectivesc i de suspens amb què comença.

Els autors van estar implicats en la sèrie i em sembla que van tenir ocasió d'autoeditar-se a millor. Tenir accés al diàleg intern dels personatges els fa xocar amb una versió més simpàtica construïda a partir de la sèrie. Això inclou el comentari social, que en una història farcida de temes de política de metròpoli vs colònia té força pes. El resum seria que la història plau força al personal liberal americà?

Em sembla que m'han faltat descripcions dels llocs i dels personatges, i desenvolupament també. He omplert els buits amb la sèrie mentalment, però no sé si això és gaire bo. Alex i Amos són molt secundaris en el llibre, …

Not very exciting...

For me, this was a frontier western story in space, and I was not sure why I should be interested. It made me question the whole premise of 'humanity conquers the solar system/universe' science fiction. Why would humanity settle Mars and the Asteroid Belt to begin with, and why would society change so little in that process?

If you like mystery, violence, horror and want it set in space, this might just be your thing; it did not appeal to me.

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

Um, here's a thought, but don't read it unless you've already read the book, okay:

I feel kinda horrible to say it, but I was kinda glad when Miller got killed off. Not that I wasn't sad; he was one of my favorite characters, and I really loved how he developed over the course of the novel. It's just like this: if I'm going to stick around for a what, nine-book series, I want to see that the authors aren't afraid of change. Too many books I've read are afraid to let anything happen because they want their readers to keep loving the characters they first saw. (The Oz series is predominantly on my mind; every book solved the conflict with yet another magic object to the point where one of the later plots--and in my opinion one of the more interesting ones--has an evil magician steal all their magic …

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