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Part noir, part space opera, Leviathan Wakes is a very good science fiction novel: written by James S. A. Corey, the first volume of The Expanse series manages to successfully balance character development with exciting set-pieces, offering the best of both genres.
The book opens with a young pilot named Juliette Mao, who finds herself trapped after her spacecraft, the Scopuli, is intercepted by pirates. When she finally manages to escape her confinement, however, Mao comes across her captain being swallowed by a mysterious substance, and realizes that her problems are even greater than she had imagined. Meanwhile, in the Asteroid Belt near Jupiter, Detective Miller receives [...]