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Leviathan Wakes introduces readers to James Holden, an ice hauler who stumbles onto an interplanetary conspiracy, and Detective Miller, who’s hired to search for a missing woman. Corey’s Expanse series has since been adapted into a TV show on Syfy, but if you can’t wait for the next season, it’s a good time to dive into the books. Image: Orbit Books Leviathan Wakes by James S.A.
Set toward the end of a war between Earth’s fleets and the breakaway Union, a captain brings her ship and the refugees it carries to the planet Pell, and accidentally turns the planet into a focal point in the war between the two sides.įollowed by Merchanter’s Luck, Rimrunners, Heavy Time, Hellburner, Tripoint, Finity’s End, and Alliance Rising. Cherryh has written dozens of installments in her Alliance-Union series, but a good place to start is the Company Wars subseries, which begins with 1981’s Downbelow Station. image: DAW Books Downbelow Station by C.J. The answer ties in with the destruction of a Central Corps ship two-and-a-half decades earlier, and a conspiracy that threatens to shake the government to its core.įollowed by Remnants of Trust and Breach of Containment. Commander Elena Shaw knows that he’s innocent and begins to work out how to clear his name and who really killed her shipmate. A Central Corps crewman is found murdered, and the blame falls on a former captain from the PSI, a breakaway faction. In The Cold Between, Elizabeth Bonesteel creates a compelling space opera that brings together a deep-seated conspiracy within the interstellar Central Gov and a murder mystery. Image: Harper Voyager The Cold Between by Elizabeth Bonesteel During a battle, a Culture Mind (a hyper-intelligent AI) flees to a forbidden planet, while the Idirans dispatch a mercenary after the Mind with instructions to retrieve it.įollowed by Player of Games, Use of Weapons, Excession, Look to Windward, Matter, Surface Detail, and The Hydrogen Sonata. You can read them in any order, but the first published book is Consider Phlebas, in which The Culture and the Idiran Empire are at war. This loosely connected series of books is about an interstellar, post-scarcity society called The Culture. If there’s one series to pick up and obsess over, it’s Iain M. Image: Orbit Books Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Here’s 13 science-fiction books that kick off a series for you to break your new e-reader in, whether it’s a Kindle, Kobo, Nook, or other tablet. Nice! Now, it’s time to find books to load it up with, which should give you plenty to read on your trip home, or if you need an excuse to avoid relatives for a couple of hours. To enable viewing an unlimited number of feeds (if you need it), there is a one-time fee.So you just got a new ebook reader for the holidays this year. This is so you can try out the app to see if it suits your need before paying anything. You can always add any number of feeds to your feed list but at any given time, only the first 3 in the list will be shown in the main view. Full support for split views and multi-tasking on iPads Subscribing to feeds from the current Heartfeed top list, from files, or directly from the web Bookmarks, including reading them from either inside Heartfeed or from any iOS or macOS browser (requires an iCloud account) Background refresh, together with caching of the last 50 news items in each feed, prevents this from happening
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