TY - GEN AU - Corey, James S. A. TI - Leviathan wakes: book one of the expanse SN - 9781841499895 U1 - 813.6 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Orbit Books KW - Space travelers KW - Science fiction KW - Life on other planets KW - Conspiracies KW - English fiction N1 - Includes index and references N2 - A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he’d left the plans on his home computer. The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets. https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/leviathan-wakes ER -