Colonies on Mars…
Mining stations among the asteroids…
A secret alien technology…
…guarded over by an interplanetary conspiracy.
Can Jim Holden hold onto his scavenged Mars attack ship and discover the origins of this ancient alien threat?
Will Detective Miller find patient zero of a virus that has turned a moon-sized space station into an orbiting house of horrors?
Are the two men going to work together to save humanity, or are they going tear each other apart?
I liked The Expanse for its ideas about the potential mining and colonization of our solar system and the politics that might surround it, but I loved the book for its characters’ colorful personalities.
The Sci-Fi books that I have read in the past have been full of stoic, buttoned-down, overly professional characters, but the people in this book were flawed and quirky and very relatable, which made the cold realities of space a bit more warm and comforting.
If I was going to be stuck for months on end in a railgun-armed vacuum-sealed can of shaving cream, the space dwellers in The Expanse are the people that I would like to be trapped with.