Summary: Leviathan Wakes, by James S.A. Corey, is the sterling first novel in the Expanse series, now adapted for television on the SyFy network. In episode 2, the DST crew follows Detective Miller’s dogged pursuit of Julie Mao’s killers, and Jim Holden’s struggle to free his crew from a maze of interplanetary intrigue. Oh, and space zombies.

Book Rating: 5/5 Malevolent Space Parasites

Recommendations * Lex: Oat of This Swirled ice cream * Ted: He’s too busy playing chess these days to discover anything new. * J. Wesley: Raising my children as if they’re space aliens — they are new to our world, and it’s my job to teach them how to live in it. A lot of what looks like disobedience is actually just ignorance of our ways.

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“Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing.” — James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Awakes