Leviathan Wakes — Special Edition

Humanity has developed technology that allows it to colonize the Solar System: Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt, and beyond. Only the stars remain out of reach.

Jim Holden is the executive officer of an ice freighter, a ship that traverses space to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew (Martian pilot Alex Kamal, Belt engineer Naomi Nagata, and Earth-born mechanic Amos Burton) find a drifting ship, the Scopuli, they inherit a secret for which someone is willing to kill on an unimaginable scale. 

Detective Miller, a somber Belter who lives on Ceres Station, between Mars and Jupiter, accepts a search mission: a girl from a powerful family has disappeared. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and the rebel sympathizer Holden, Miller realizes that the girl may be more important than he had admitted.

Holden and Miller must then navigate the pressures of the governments    and leaders who control Earth, Mars, and the Belt, as well as the influence of the Outer Planets revolutionaries. Humanity is no longer what it once was in many ways—in its mindset, its memories of Earth's past, its languages, its philosophical perception of others and space, its food, its work, its gravitational arbitrariness, and even its bodies; it is driven by the same thing as always: the will to go all the way. 

With its acclaimed scientific rigor, remarkable diversity of characters, and unsurpassed imagination in building settings, cultures, and modes of communication, The Expanse by James S. A. Corey, the first of nine volumes in which this Leviathan Wakes is one, is the space opera that changed everything.

"An interplanetary adventure written exactly as it should be."
George R. R. Martin