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8% complete! Dave has read 1 of 12 books.

commented on Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes (EBook, 2011, Orbit)

When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a …

I'm up to chapter 51 now. I believe I'll be finishing tonight.

Holy smokes this book is good. It merges genres in unexpected ways, and keeps you on your toes in unexpected but seemless ways.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this beginning section of this saga concludes.

Isaac Asimov: Robots and Empire (Paperback, 1986, Grafton)

Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov, published …

Robots and Empire: but why?

Generally I find Asimov books are slow burns in the front half, and pick up and become hard to put down in the tail end.

This one was a hard slog all the way through. It was an obvious shoehorning of universes together, and ultimately not a fun read.