Leviathan Wakes (Expanse Series #1)

by James S. A. Corey

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

If you've seen The Expanse, you'll love the book that created the world. It's science fiction at its absolute best, set in our very own solar system. But with humanity in charge, war is coming (isn't it always?) unless the power players on the page can do something about it. You don't want to miss this series.

From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. 

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 must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.

"Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin

The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban's War
Abaddon's Gate
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon's Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat's Wrath
​Leviathan Falls

Memory's Legion

The Expanse Short Fiction
Drive
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
Auberon
The Sins of Our Fathers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316134675
Publisher:	Orbit
Publication date:	06/15/2011
Series:	Expanse Series
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
Sales rank:	6,635
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

James S. A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. In addition to writing the novels and short stories of The Expanse, they wrote and produced the television series of the same name. Daniel lives with his family in the American southwest. Ty will tell you where he lives when and if he wants you to come over.

Editorial Reviews

"It's been too long since we've had a really kickass space opera. LEVIATHAN WAKES is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." — George R.R. Martin


"This is the future the way it was supposed to be." — The Wall Street Journal


"As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form." — io9.com


"An excellent space operatic debut in the grand tradition of Peter F. Hamilton." — Charlie Stross


"If you like science fiction with great characters and set in real space, you'll enjoy this one." — Jo Walton, author of Farthing

From the Publisher