Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)

Living on the surface of a planet, mass sucking at every bone and muscle, and nothing but gravity to keep your air close, seemed like a fast path to crazy. The blue was nice, though.

Miller had known a lot of victims, and he put them into three categories. First there were the ones who pretended nothing had happened, or that whatever it was didn’t really matter. That was well over half the people he talked to. Then there were the professionals, people who took their victimization as permission to act out any way they saw fit. T

when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.

She was grinning like the universe had given her a kiss.

“What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?” Amos said. “Give ’em a break. It’s their first.”

Background radiation spoke to Holden in mystic whispers full of dire portents while he waited. Newcomer, it said. Hang around for fourteen billion years or so. See what I’ve seen. Then all this nonsense won’t seem so important.

the OPA would never win against the discipline and unity of an inner planet navy. But they would also never lose. War without end. Well, what was history if not that? And how would having the stars change anything?

The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve. He liked it that way.

water. So now the Canterbury