Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey, 2011
A detective hunts a missing woman across a solar system sliding toward war, while a freight crew stumbles onto something it should not have.
James S.A. Corey
James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck; Franck first built the solar system as a tabletop role-playing setting.
Feels like society, awe and morality.
The invention that opened the solar system also launched its inventor into nowhere.
A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he’d left the plans on his home computer. The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets. Books by James S.A. Corey
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