![]() ![]() Johnson had been a highly decorated commander in the UNN years earlier when he was ordered to brutally quell a Belter uprising, for which he was nicknamed the "Butcher of Anderson Station." Guilt-stricken, he had resigned his commission and become an advocate for the rights of Belters. En route, they receive a message from Fred Johnson, chief of Tycho Station, an engineering outpost and construction platform, who offers his support. In response, the shuttle is ordered to rendezvous with the MCRN battleship Donnager, flagship of Mars' Jupiter Fleet. With the shuttle damaged by the debris field, lacking the necessary fuel or supplies to reach a port, and fearful that should they put out a distress signal of their own the attackers may return, Holden broadcasts a message out to the entire system implicating Mars in the destruction of the Cant, hoping to negate any attempt to kill them as part of a cover-up. Based on the highly advanced technology of the warship and the discovery that the beacon from the Scopuli is of Martian origin, the survivors suspect the MCRN of being behind the attack. Holden sends an angry message to the attacking ship, but it ignores him and departs. Before they can make it, an unknown stealth warship arrives and, without warning, destroys the Cant with nuclear weaponry. Suspecting that the ship may be a trap set by pirates, they take the beacon and begin returning to the Cant. They find no trace of the ship's crew, but they do discover the beacon transmitting the distress signal. They discover an abandoned transport vessel called the Scopuli. Five members of the Cant's crew are dispatched in a shuttle to investigate: executive officer James "Jim" Holden, a former officer in the UN Navy (UNN) chief engineer Naomi Nagata, a Belter pilot Alex Kamal, a veteran of the Martian navy (MCRN) engineer Amos Burton and medic Shed Garvey. The ice hauling ship Canterbury (nicknamed the Cant by Belters) is en route from Saturn's Rings to Ceres Station when it encounters a distress signal. ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Save for the prologue and epilogue, the story is presented exclusively in third-person perspective by Belter detective Joe Miller, and Earther XO Jim Holden. This class conflict particularly manifests itself in The Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a network of loosely-aligned militant groups, which seeks to combat the Belt's exploitation at the hands of the "Inners", who, in turn, have collectively branded the OPA a terrorist organization. Belters, whose bodies tend to be thin and elongated owing to their low-gravity environments, carry out the gritty, blue-collar work that provides the system with essential natural resources, but are largely marginalized by the rest of the Solar System polity. Earth, governed by the United Nations, and the Martian Congressional Republic act as competing superpowers, maintaining an uneasy military alliance in order to exert dual hegemony over the peoples of the Asteroid belt, known as "Belters". Leviathan Wakes is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System. Five short stories that take place before, during, or after Leviathan Wakes were published between 20. The novel was adapted for television in 2015 as the first season-and-a-half of The Expanse by Syfy. ![]() Leviathan Wakes was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. It is the first book in the Expanse series, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013) and six other novels. Corey, the pen name of American writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. ![]() Leviathan Wakes is a science fiction novel by James S. 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (Nomination). ![]() 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel (Nomination). ![]()
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