If you liked the previous two books, you’ll like this one too. Perhaps the thing The Expanse series does best is to create a Sci-Fi future that isn’t the egalitarian utopia of Star Trek, but one that is gritty, messy, and violent; in other words, it’s a future that’s just as imperfect as the humans that inhabit it. Discovering alien life and other worlds wouldn’t be a noble exploration of the cosmos, but a mad land grab, just as it always has been through out all of human history.
As always, I save a few of my favorite quotes from the book:
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.”
“There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you.”
Rating: 5 stars
Yevgeniy Brikman
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