Leviathan Wakes
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.
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2011–2026years
38% recommend53% neutral9% critical
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What Hacker News says
- - Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- Leviathan Wakes by James Corey
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
- Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Daniel Barrett
- One thing to remember is that you may not get on with works that other people gets engrossed in - so you'll probably need to try a variety of styles to work out what works for you.
Books worth trying to see if you like the styles include:
* Rivers Of London - Magic in a modern London setting
* Burning Chrome - A collection of classic Cyberpunk short stories
* Leviathan Wakes - The start of the Expanse series of works, a harder style of sci-fi
* All Systems Red - The start of the Murderbot Diaries, a softer style of sci-fi
* Permutation City - Existential sci-fi
- My favorites on this list are: - Station 11, just a great novel even if you don't care about SciFi - Ancillary Justice series. Also really good novels but more for SciFi fans. - Leviathan Wakes: The inspiration for the best SciFi TV series of the decade. - Murderbot!!!! Everybody loves Murderbot Diaries
I was sad to not see Seveneves. I think that novel is 2/3 amazing and you can just skip the last 1/3 and miss nothing.
- A bunch of books: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (as well as several of the sequels), American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, and a bunch of others.
- I mainly read SF to relax (biased towards hard space opera) and have accumulated a "best of the best" list of my own:
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey (TV show The Expanse is loosely based on this, but IMO doesn't even come close)
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Three Body Problem (all 3 books) - Liu Cixin
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (your gateway drug into the Culture universe)
Genuinely wish I could experience all the above for the first time again. And looking forward to checking out some of the others mentioned here.
- Some fiction from this year I would recommend:
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) by James S. A. Corey - I enjoyed this whole series. I like that the physics of space travel is respected among the politics/mystery. Each book in the series is a bit of a different genre set in the universe.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak - Eastern European folk tale akin to Rumplestiltskin.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green - Contemporary fiction with a scifi bent. Ultimately hopeful, it explores the consequences of viral fame.
