{"id":1723,"date":"2021-03-11T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:51:58","slug":"leviathan-wakes-by-james-s-a-corey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/10519662\/book\/197581838\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0316129089.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leviathon wakes is a space opera taking place in the near future. Man has colonized Mars and the asteroid belt populated by Belters. There is a lot of political tension between the three populations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book follows two men. James Holden is the executive officer of a small ice-mining ship. Josephus Aloisus Miller is a small-time detective at a space station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story starts with Holden and crew responding to a distress signal. They find a dead ship, when a stealth Martian ship arrives and destroys their ship. This leaves him in command of a small crew and pulls him into a political power struggle for the Solar System. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miller is given an assignment to find Julie Mao, the daughter of a wealthy Earthman. His orders are to kidnap her and ship her home. His early investigation reveals that she was involved with Belter rebels  &#8211; and leads to his being pulled from the investigation and ultimately fired for not dropping the investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miller finds Julie Mao dead, she dies of an unknown and apparently dangerous virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone is setting up Eros as an experiment with the virus. Miller recognizes a bugus radiation alert and mercenaries acting as herding authorities, Miller find Holden to gain his expertise on the ships and docks, then manages to herd them both safely to Holden&#8217;s ship using back areas of the station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From here, the story involves an alien virus, a large corporation trying to control and dominate it, Mars and The Belt trying to get their own samples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story is very readable, mostly an adventure novel with a bit of noir mystery thrown in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leviathon wakes is a space opera taking place in the near future. Man has colonized Mars and the asteroid belt populated by Belters. There is a lot of political tension between the three populations. The book follows two men. James Holden is the executive officer of a small ice-mining ship. Josephus Aloisus Miller is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[181,180],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-series","tag-james-s-a-corey","tag-the-expanse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}