Inevitably, I like them for about 400 pages and then I just.

Even with a bunch of cool ideas on display, spending 700 pages in these books is exhausting. Banks) are of the 'dark and gritty' variety, grim, nihilistic visions of the future starring amoral asshole protagonists who are impossible to sympathize with. It turns out I was perhaps incorrect: most of the lengthy examples I've sampled in the sub-genre (Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. I complained in my review of Chasm City that the gee-whiz mechanics of space opera can't really sustain a 600-page narrative. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations-and the odds are against them.

When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for-and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew.

When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach.

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey