Reddit reviews Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)

Leviathan Wakes has several horror-on-spaceship passages, and some really gnarly horror-on-spacestation scenes.

Actually, they've got the Leviathan Wakes series in the pipe.

This is the single best production/executive decision SyFy has made in 15 years. If they don't fuck this up, it could catapult the channel into a new, top level of prominence.

The aspects of Clarke's style that you seem to enjoy really shine in the short story format. You said you've read everything, does that include his short fiction? There's a great anthology which collects them all.

Asimov was also great at writing short fiction, and I like this collection of his works.

Many of the stories curated in those anthologies were published 50 or so years ago in weekly/monthly science fiction magazines, you might see if any one has created 'best of science fiction weekly' collections.

Tor publishes short fiction for free on its website regularly. It's fairly hit or miss, but it's a good way to window shop authors.

A novel you might enjoy is Leviathan Wakes. It's a hard sci-fi novel in which humanity has colonized Mars and the Asteroid Belt. At this point all have their own unique cultures because it takes so long to travel between them. Not a lot of character development, which you don't seem to be into anyway, just fun ride in a cool setting. First in a series, but I haven't read the sequels yet so I can't comment on those.


You also might like The Martian, by Andy Weir. An astronaut is stranded by himself on Mars and has to survive. Weir wrote a short story called "The Egg" which gets posted to reddit on a regular basis.

Not in any particular order.

• Ringword series by Larry Niven
  
• The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell
  
• The Expanse novels by James S. A. Corey
  
• The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir
  
• The Culture series by Iain M. Banks
  
• The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
  
• The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski
  
• The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson
  
• Star Trek novels by various (I have been reading mostly TNG and Titan, plus the crossover series)

Very. https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-Expanse-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0047Y171G/

Have you read Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey? It's the first book of the Expanse series - good stuff.

Yes, the books (by James S.A. Corey) are much easier to get in to and help when watching the show. Here is the first book: Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1).

I am showing a sample for Leviathan Wakes. What country are you in, maybe there's a region thing that has been overlooked by someone.

https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-Expanse-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0047Y171G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Click on the cover, where it says 'Look Inside'. Make sure you are on the 'Kindle' tab and on the left you'll see the control to send a sample to your device.

You can switch to the Print Book tab and read the sample in your browser as well.

I just started last night on my Kindle Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. I tend to pick up books when I first hear that they will be made into a movie/tv show. Apparently SyFy is basing a new series on LW. I did the same thing with the ASoIaF series, only reading them when I heard HBO was going to make a show called Game of Thrones.

Here is the mobile version of your link

Leviathan Wakes, Ready Player One, and Wool are probably my top 3.

You can read the first 30 pages of Leviathan Wakes on Amazon for free. That's what I did before buying it. http://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-Expanse-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0047Y171G


Click on the cover thumbnail to "Look Inside"

I'd like two recommendations: First, I usually read classic science fiction, but I'd love to branch out to something recently published after reading Leviathan Wakes. Something about space travel, with horror elements.

Second, I like to read to my 2yr old, but I'd like to enjoy it too. I've read the Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, The Phantom Tollbooth.

Books with whisper synch have an option for it on the product page.

Like this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0047Y171G/ref=mh_s9_acsd_top_bP_c_x_13_w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=mobile-hybrid-5&pf_rd_r=NV9V6J9EKJWT8SSZN684&pf_rd_t=30901&pf_rd_p=58acb9ff-7392-5c86-b0a6-625755be4441&pf_rd_i=25

Here's book 1: https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-Expanse-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0047Y171G/

Not sure how you feel about Sci-Fi, but I recently picked up the first book in The Expanse series and found myself roped into the conflict that's happening. Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey is the start of the series and it's currently got about nine books in it. I haven't been disappointed yet.

I have a sister who read that series and she recommended a bunch of authors using similar themes (Gene Wolfe, Jo Walton, Robert Charles Wilson, and Kim Stanley Robinson) and then the book Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1).

I'm sorry to say that I haven't that book or very much by the authors she mentioned, so I can't really say whether I agree with her or not. The only reason that I could remember the authors she mentioned was because I was looking up the book to refresh my memory and found Ada Palmer's website that talked about the same thing.

If you like historical fiction The Saxon Tales is some pretty good reading. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Kingdom-Saxon-Tales-Book-ebook/dp/B000FC2RR2#navbar

bonus the bbc is doing a series on them coming out soon. I find them compelling because I have dutch/wasp ancestry.

I also like nonfiction that reads like fiction. I highly recommend literally anything by Eric Larson. I'd start with Devil in the White City. Great true story about a serial killer operating during the Chicago World's Fair in the 1890s. https://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467895439&sr=8-1&keywords=the+white+city

You said no sci fi but The Expanse series is some of the best reading I've ever had.

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The books are FAR better. The show was alright, quite good for SyFy, but it was a watered down version of the amazing source material. If you liked the show even a little bit I highly recommend reading the series.