HARD SF · THE EXPANSE SERIES · BOOK ONE

LEVIATHAN

WAKES

JAMES S.A. COREY · 2011 · ORBIT BOOKS

"Humanity has colonised the solar system — Mars, the Moon, the asteroid belt. But the stars are still out of reach."

Two men from opposite sides of the solar system's class divide — Jim Holden, idealistic XO of an ice hauler, and Miller, a world-weary Belter detective — are drawn into a conspiracy that could ignite an interplanetary war. And at its centre, something far older and stranger than any human conflict.

The Expanse is the most scientifically rigorous space opera of the modern era — no faster-than-light travel, no artificial gravity, no shortcuts. Just the cold physics of a colonised solar system and the very human conflicts that fill it. A full editorial experience is being assembled. Check back soon.