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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, 9)" by James S. A. Corey
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:58:18 -0400
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On 7/25/24 3:45 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not just ebooks - all 8 are collected in the trade paperback volume 
"Memory's Legion" (where I read them).

Tony