Nemesis Games
Nemesis Games is a 2015 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the fifth book in their The Expanse series. It is the sequel to Cibola Burn. The cover art is by Daniel Dociu. Nemesis Games has received positive reviews. The novel has been referred to as "Corey’s 'Empire Strikes Back'".
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- I stick mostly to fiction these days. Best books I've read this year:
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Jurassic Park by Micheal Crichton
- Platform Decay by Martha Wells
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the End of the World by Eric Jay Dolin
- All the Sinners Bleed by S A Cosby
- Project Hail Mary and Artemis by Andy Weir
- Cibola Burn and Nemesis Games by James S A Corey (the Expanse series)
- I just recently finished all of the books.
The third and fourth books are the weakest by far and are actually done much better by the TV series than the books.
The TV series version of Ashford is an actual deep character and not just a 2d caricature. Equally, all of the schoolgirl romance stuff in Cibola Burn is removed.
The rest of the books are pretty decent though I thought, so if you stopped at Cibola Burn I'd recommend Nemesis Games and the rest.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Games
There's some rock throwing in this latest book in the Expanse series. You'd want to read the earlier books beforehand though. (They are worth reading anyway.)
- It's kinda how the books went too. Nemesis Games and so on were very much about the personal war between Holden and a certain other person.
- In the book she exhales: "She pushed her jaw forward in a yawn, opening her throat and her Eustachian tubes. Cyn yelped as she hit OPEN OUTER DOOR. Air tugged at her once, hard, as it evacuated. Adrenaline flooded her blood as she was assaulted invisibly on every square centimeter of flesh. The breath in her lungs rushed out of her, trying to pull her lungs along with it.[...] With her lungs empty, there was no reserve. She wasn’t holding her breath, surviving off the gas held inside her. Someone could hold their breath for a couple minutes. In the vacuum, she could make it maybe fifteen seconds unaided.
Corey, James S.A.. Nemesis Games (The Expanse) (p. 425). Orbit. Kindle Edition.
- I read on my phone/tablet these days. I backpacked around for 11 months straight once and having physical books and keeping notes was difficult. I use to just buy books from Google/Amazon/B&N, but these days I'll usually just buy some merch from an author or support their podcast (if they have one) and pirate the book because I hate vendor lock-in.
I usually try to switch back and fourth between fiction and non-fiction. I'll read two or three fictional novels and then maybe some non-fiction. I'm not a huge fan of non-fiction. A lot of them they draw out a 100 page book into a 300 page extended essay because that's what publishers want to sell books at the current market prices. I'd rather they sell 150 page non-fiction if they could get the same point across. (Sam Harris brought this up when he self published the short book: Islam and the Future of Tolerance, which is on my list).
I think at one time I might have switched between two books throughout my reading, but today I usually read one all the way through.
I do want to read more. Here's what I finished last year:
Books 2018:
and 2019 so far:Cibola Burn Nemesis Games The Dictator's Handbook The Mythical Man Month Ready Player One The Myth of Sisyphus and Other EssaysThe Fountainhead Wrinkle in Time The Men who Stare at Goats The Coddling of the American Mind Babylon's Ashes The Strange Death of Europe Persepolis Rising
