![]() ![]() Because why would you want to explore the stars with assholes? You can make space opera (or epic fantasy or whatever) that is "dark" and "gritty" and still fun to read, with characters that are fun to read about. The characters are complex, they operate in a world that is more grey than black & white, but each also has a clear moral center, so we know why they do the things they do, even when they are terrible things. ![]() Say what you will about the annoyingly zealous fanbase (or don't, you don't need the hate email) that show really did almost everything right in translating space opera to the modern age. The closest analogue I can think of is the oft-overpraised television show Firefly. This book has the spirit of the genre's early days, characters who still marvel at the impossible immensity of the stars, but it isn't a pastiche or a throwback - it's a natural evolution, and a remarkably satisfying one. Inevitably, I like them for about 400 pages and then I just. ![]() Even with a bunch of cool ideas on display, spending 700 pages in these books is exhausting. Banks) are of the "dark and gritty" variety, grim, nihilistic visions of the future starring amoral asshole protagonists who are impossible to sympathize with. It turns out I was perhaps incorrect: most of the lengthy examples I've sampled in the sub-genre (Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Even with a bunch of cool ideas on display, spending 700 pages in these books is exhausti I complained in my review of Chasm City that the gee-whiz mechanics of space opera can't really sustain a 600-page narrative. I complained in my review of Chasm City that the gee-whiz mechanics of space opera can't really sustain a 600-page narrative. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.more Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations-and the odds are against them. ![]() When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for-and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. A secret that Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach. Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach. ![]()
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