Some of the power players in the system have decided to see what, exactly, the protomolecule can do, and are using Belters as their guinea pigs they’re resisted by the obligatory bunch of scrappy underdogs, chiefly the former crew of an ice hauler who find themselves in control of a state-of-the-art gunship, and a disgraced cop from Ceres who becomes obsessed with a missing girl who turns out to be central to something much bigger.
#Pov characters in the expanse books series
The action of the series kicks off when mysterious forces release a “protomolecule” of alien origin, which can infect living things and repurpose them to unknown ends. The Earth is one big state under the UN, Mars is an independent and militaristic state, and the settlements in the Belt and Jovian moons are a collection of city-states and company towns, with a number of squabbling factions attempting to unite them into a force that could stand against Earth and Mars. These are set in a future Solar System where humans have developed fusion energy and reasonably efficient propulsion systems that have allowed us to colonize Mars, the asteroid belt, and the moons of Jupiter.
Corey,” a pen name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The novel series consists of nine books, starting with Leviathan Wakes in 2011, written by “James S. Specifically, the last novel of The Expanse dropped recently, and I finished it over the weekend the TV show is also in its final lap, with a shortened sixth season running on Amazon Prime right now, but I’m way behind on my watching, so will confine myself to talking about the books here. The news all sucks, but barring some new disaster, we’ll be heading out for Christmas with my parents and sister tomorrow, so let’s talk about something happier, like escapist genre fiction. Box set of Expanse books from Amazon, not including the concluding volume.
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