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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, 9)" by James S. A. Corey
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:45:07 -0500
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On 7/25/2024 9:53 AM, Tony Nance wrote:
> On 7/22/24 1:09 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, 9)" by James S. A. Corey
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Falls-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316332941/
>>
>> Book number nine of an nine book science fiction series.  I read the 
>> well printed and well bound trade paperback weighing 1.3 lbs published 
>> by Orbit in 2023.  Ah, Science Fiction by the pound, cool !  This book 
>> is the end of the series as far as I know.  BTW, James S. A. Corey is 
>> two guys writing under a single nom de plume.
>>
>> James Holden has escaped from the fallen empire of Laconia.  The 
>> ancient central station with the 1,300 gates, shortcuts around the 
>> Milky Way, is a free for all now.  But, somebody else has awakened and 
>> wants to destroy everything.  And the leader of Laconia, Winston 
>> Duarte, has turned up at the central station.
>>
>> I really enjoyed the series.  It was almost hard science fiction if 
>> you skip the protomolecule and the central station at the edge of the 
>> Solar System.
>>
>> You can watch books one through six converted to a six season tv 
>> series on Amazon Prime.  The series was started on the Syfy channel 
>> and moved to Amazon for the fourth season.
>>
>> My rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars
>> Amazon rating:  4.8 out of 5 stars (25,657 reviews)
>>
> 
> You're probably aware of this, but in case you're not:
> In 2022, they published Memory's Legion, a collection of 8 short stories 
> and novellas in the Expanse universe, as well as some author notes at 
> the end of each one. Seven had been published elsewhere, but this volume 
> collects them all and adds a new novella.
> 
> On the one hand, the writing is very much as good as the novels. On the 
> other hand, 6 of the 8 stories feature minor and/or new characters that 
> — with one exception — aren’t as interesting as the main characters from 
> the novel series. (One of those 6 does feature Bobbie just a bit.) 
> There’s a story featuring Amos, and one featuring Fred Johnson, but the 
> best story may well have been the new novella, about Filip (Naomi’s son).
> 
> Tony

Yes, I failed to mention those.  I have not read any of them since they 
are ebooks.

Lynn