Leviathan Wakes

Published June 14, 2011 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-13467-5
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Goodreads:
11158056
4 stars (425 reviews)

When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.

18 editions

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear.

It will be difficult to review the book without comparing it to the Syfy/Amazon series, but the reason I'm reading it is because of the TV show so regardless of how I try to view them separately they (season one and Leviathan Wakes) are so similar that they both suffered the same flaws or challenges.

It's the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.

Miller is a stereotypical cop that has gone through a divorce, witnessed his glory days come and go and is now a joke among the force. I failed to understand (in the beginning) why Miller was so fixated with Juliette Mao and why he kept postponing the conclusion of her case so he could pursue another Julie-related task (find her, find those who wrong her, enacted vengeance). His obsession reeked …

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

J’ai eu le temps de regarder les trois premières saisons de The Expanse avant de commencer à lire les romans dont la série a été adaptée. Pourtant, les premiers tomes m’attendent sur mon Kindle depuis que j’ai terminé la première saison. J’ai enfin pris la peine de me plonger dans le premier volume, intitulé Leviathan Wakes.

Il faut d’abord préciser que James S.A. Corey est un pseudonyme : derrière ce nom de plume se cachent en réalité deux auteurs, Daniel Abraham et Ty Franck, qui ont entrepris ensemble l’écriture de cette grande saga de science-fiction baptisée The Expanse.

L’action se déroule dans un futur plus ou moins proche : suffisamment proche pour que l’environnement nous soit familier, avec la Terre, Mars, la ceinture d’astéroïdes, bref notre système solaire ; mais suffisamment éloigné dans le futur pour que la science-fiction soit bien présente : l’humanité a colonisé le système solaire et …

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

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I've seen The Expanse season 1 and 2, and reading this book was like rewatching the directors cut of the show. It was a great read, even at 540+ pages, and interesting to see what was changed for the show. For instance the UN leaders are central in the show but barely register in the book. Miller's obsession with Julie is more consistenstly portraited in the book, and more random in the show.

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I was kind of split about Leviathan Wakes. I think it is one of the few cases wjere I like the TV adaptation better then the book. I really like the main plot of this story, but for Leviathan Wakes compared to the first 1-and-a-bit season of The Expanse the TV show, the latter seems so much more elegant and well done. The writing here is a bit ham-fisted, the characters are two-dimensional and the narration is a bit clumsy. The script writers of the TV show have made a lot of good calls when it comes to altering the story to trade gore for suspense, and they did absolutely right in introducing Chrisjen Avasarala much earlier in the story - the character gallery in the book is too narrow, and the story line too linear, it feels a bit claustrophobic.

This is not to say I dislike the book. …

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Finally! I don't know why it took me so long to finish this book because it is brilliant. I've already seen the first two seasons of the show and I'm a huge fan of it. Naturally, I was curious enough to check out the material it is based on, and I wasn't disappointed. This book covers Holden & Miller's perpectives of what happens in the first two seasons. I'm very curious to find out what the next book will be like.

(I do actually: I read to much at work to read a lot at home).

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

It's very good, reasonably hard SF (i.e. it tries to avoid space opera tropes such as artificial gravity, etc.).

After watching the Netflix series, I was curious about the original. The TV show is curiously close at recreating individual scenes very faithfully from the book, but simultaneously strays far from the characterizations of the cast, peppering the show with somewhat unnecessary tension that's also not in the source material.

Overall, I prefer the book. It does a much better job at keeping the plot on track, the characters relatable, and the reveal is far more intriguing than the TV show lets through.

The first season covers about half of this first book, but either invents a new plot line, or lifts it from a later book (I don't know yet).

Stick to the books, then watch the TV show for the visuals.

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Leviathan Wakes is the first book in a science fiction series. It’s on television as a series called ‘The Expanse’. As usual if there is a book I don’t watch it on television.

So what’s this book about?

We are in an age where Mars is colonised and also many rocks in space, known as The Belt, sustain life in some form or other. A detective, a space ship commander and a man who is involved in a rebel organisation called OPA meet in circumstances that are able to plunge all inhabited places in a war. The discovery of a strange matter makes everything even more complicated as there are parties who want it and who will go to extremes to have and keep it.

The book was a fascinating read, nicely detailed and all the people in the story really came to life for me. That’s the best kind …

Review of 'Leviathan Wakes' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I really liked the first half. It introduces a very gritty sci-fi world. Very realistic, limited, inconvenient. A fantastic place, but not one where you would want to live. Humanity has colonized the Solar System, but not beyond. A lot of people live in the asteroid belt and that's where the story is set. There is no artificial gravity, no wormholes, no faster-than-light travel, no aliens, no robots.

A lot of good comes from this non-magical sci-fi. For example the heavy acceleration of space ships is something you cannot ignore here. Corey manages to turn surprisingly many of the inconveniences that most sci-fi would rather forget about into interesting plot elements. Space stations spin to provide a semblance of gravity, so "down" is toward space, "up" is toward the center of the station. Lots of nice technical details to contemplate!

The story has two main characters and the chapters alternate …

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