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Jun. 16th, 2012 01:14 pmAfter about two months of reading pretty much nothing but fanfic on my kindle, I am currently reading an actual book. (There have been occasional attempts at a book over the past two months. It's just that none of them stuck for longer than a day or so.)
It is Leviathan Wakes by James Corey, I am approximately 150 pages in, and it is pretty much awesome. There are interplanetary politics. There are colonies on asteroids where people eat a lot of fungus and worry about how they're going to pay for air and think that paper books are decadent because they weigh too much for so little data. There are police investigations. There are creepy mysterious space things that we haven't touched on since the prologue but which I assume we will eventually get back to. There are ice miners. There are space battles, from the point of view of people who aren't military. There are preparations for interplanetary war. It is pretty great. I am a little more invested in the detective-on-the-asteroid plotline rather than the ice-miners-caught-up-in-weirdass-Martian-shenanigans plotline, but they are both pretty engaging and the characters are interesting so far.
Reading science fiction always reminds me that I haven't actually read a lot of science fiction in my life. I've watched a lot of sci fi, but my reading has always tended toward the fantasy-and-horror side of the spec-fic spectrum. It also reminds me that I really like reading science fiction and should probably do more of that.
Apparently, the sequel to this book comes out on the 26th. That is terribly convenient, as I should be done with this one by then.
It is Leviathan Wakes by James Corey, I am approximately 150 pages in, and it is pretty much awesome. There are interplanetary politics. There are colonies on asteroids where people eat a lot of fungus and worry about how they're going to pay for air and think that paper books are decadent because they weigh too much for so little data. There are police investigations. There are creepy mysterious space things that we haven't touched on since the prologue but which I assume we will eventually get back to. There are ice miners. There are space battles, from the point of view of people who aren't military. There are preparations for interplanetary war. It is pretty great. I am a little more invested in the detective-on-the-asteroid plotline rather than the ice-miners-caught-up-in-weirdass-Martian-shenanigans plotline, but they are both pretty engaging and the characters are interesting so far.
Reading science fiction always reminds me that I haven't actually read a lot of science fiction in my life. I've watched a lot of sci fi, but my reading has always tended toward the fantasy-and-horror side of the spec-fic spectrum. It also reminds me that I really like reading science fiction and should probably do more of that.
Apparently, the sequel to this book comes out on the 26th. That is terribly convenient, as I should be done with this one by then.
