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Leviathan Wakes

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Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. [1]

95 relations: Abaddon's Gate, Anubis, Asteroid belt, Babylon's Ashes, Biomass, Biosphere, Blue-collar worker, Business magnate, Caliban's War, Canterbury, Ceres (dwarf planet), Chief engineer, Children of Men, Cibola Burn, Daniel Abraham (author), Daniel Dociu, Deimos (moon), Distress signal, Earth, Effect of spaceflight on the human body, Energy, Executive officer, Extrasolar object, Extraterrestrial life, False flag, G-force, Generation ship, Hegemony, Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Human subject research, Illegal agreement, Inertia, Iron Man (2008 film), James S. A. Corey, Jupiter, Kirkus Reviews, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Locus Online, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Mars, Mexican standoff, Military alliance, Moon, Mormons, Nauvoo Temple, Naval boarding, Nemesis Games, Nuclear weapon, Orbit Books, ..., Persepolis Rising, Phoebe (moon), Pinnace (ship's boat), Preemptive war, Private police, Psychopathy, Radiation, Railgun, Rings of Saturn, Rocinante, Rotten Tomatoes, Saturn, Science fiction, Scuttling, Self-replication, SF Signal, Sirenum scopuli, Social exclusion, Solar System, Space colonization, Space debris, Space marine, Space pirate, Spaceflight, Stealth technology, Sun, Superpower, Syfy, Terrorism, The Expanse (novel series), The Expanse (TV series), The Wall Street Journal, Tor.com, United Nations, Venus, Wired (magazine), World government, 2011 in literature, 2012 in literature, 2013 in literature, 2014 in literature, 2015 in literature, 2016 in literature, 2017 in literature, 433 Eros. Expand index (45 more) »

Abaddon's Gate

Abaddon's Gate is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).

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Anubis

Anubis (Ἄνουβις, Egyptian: jnpw, Coptic: Anoup) is the Greek name of a god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

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Babylon's Ashes

Babylon's Ashes is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the sixth book in their The Expanse series.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Biosphere

The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Blue-collar worker

In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor.

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Business magnate

A business magnate (formally industrialist) refers to an entrepreneur of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise or field of business.

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Caliban's War

Caliban's War is a 2012 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.

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Ceres (dwarf planet)

Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, slightly closer to Mars' orbit.

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Chief engineer

A chief engineer is a senior engineer in an organization.

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Children of Men

Children of Men is a 2006 British-American dystopian thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón.

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Cibola Burn

Cibola Burn is a 2014 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) and the fourth book in The Expanse series.

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Daniel Abraham (author)

Daniel James Abraham (born November 14, 1969), pen names M. L. N. Hanover and James S. A. Corey, is an American novelist, comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer.

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Daniel Dociu

Daniel Dociu is a Romanian video game art director and concept artist.

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Deimos (moon)

Deimos (systematic designation: Mars II) is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of the planet Mars, the other being Phobos.

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Distress signal

A distress signal or distress call is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Effect of spaceflight on the human body

Humans venturing into the environment of space can have negative effects on the body.

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Energy

In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.

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Executive officer

An executive officer (XO) is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.

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Extrasolar object

An extrasolar object is an astronomical object that exists outside the Solar System.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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False flag

A false flag is a covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual source of responsibility.

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G-force

The gravitational force, or more commonly, g-force, is a measurement of the type of acceleration that causes a perception of weight.

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Generation ship

A generation ship, or generation starship, is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels at sub-light speed.

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Hegemony

Hegemony (or) is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Human subject research

Human subject research is systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional (a "trial") or observational (no "test article") and involves human beings as research subjects.

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Illegal agreement

An illegal agreement, under the common law of contract, is one that the courts will not enforce because the purpose of the agreement is to achieve an illegal end.

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Inertia

Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its position and state of motion.

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Iron Man (2008 film)

Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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James S. A. Corey

James S. A. Corey is the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews (or Kirkus Media) is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980).

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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Winners of the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, awarded by the ''Locus'' magazine.

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Locus Online

Locus Online (founded 1997) is the online component of Locus Magazine.

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Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are screenwriters best known for their work on Children of Men (for which they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Iron Man.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Mexican standoff

A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or amongst three or more parties in which no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory.

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Military alliance

A military alliance is an international agreement concerning national security, when the contracting parties agree to mutual protection and support in case of a crisis that has not been identified in advance.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Nauvoo Temple

The Nauvoo Temple was the second temple constructed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Naval boarding

Naval boarding is to come up against, or alongside, an enemy ship to attack by placing combatants aboard the enemy ship.

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Nemesis Games

Nemesis Games is a 2015 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the fifth book in their The Expanse series.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Orbit Books

Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books.

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Persepolis Rising

Persepolis Rising is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the seventh book in their series The Expanse.

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Phoebe (moon)

Phoebe (Greek: Φοίβη Phoíbē) is an irregular satellite of Saturn with a mean diameter of 213 km.

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Pinnace (ship's boat)

As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender.

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Preemptive war

A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war shortly before that attack materializes.

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Private police

Private police are law enforcement bodies that are owned and/or controlled by non-governmental entities.

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.

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Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.

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Railgun

A railgun is a device that uses electromagnetic force to launch high velocity projectiles, by means of a sliding armature that is accelerated along a pair of conductive rails.

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Rings of Saturn

The rings of Saturn are the most extensive ring system of any planet in the Solar System.

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Rocinante

Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scuttling

Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.

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Self-replication

Self-replication is any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical copy of itself.

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SF Signal

SF Signal was a science fiction blog and fanzine published from 2003 to 2016.

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Sirenum scopuli

According to the Roman poets Virgil (Aeneid, book v.864) and Ovid, the Sirenum scopuli were three small rocky islands where the Sirens of Greek mythology lived and lured sailors to their deaths.

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Social exclusion

Social exclusion, or social marginalization, is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Space colonization

Space colonization (also called space settlement, or extraterrestrial colonization) is permanent human habitation off the planet Earth.

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Space debris

Space debris (also known as space junk, space waste, space trash, space litter or space garbage) is a term for the mass of defunct, artificially created objects in space, most notably in Earth orbit, such as old satellites and spent rocket stages.

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Space marine

The space marine, an archetype of military science fiction, is a kind of soldier that operates in outer space or on alien worlds.

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Space pirate

Space pirates are a type of stock character from science fiction.

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Spaceflight

Spaceflight (also written space flight) is ballistic flight into or through outer space.

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Stealth technology

Stealth technology also termed low observable technology (LO technology) is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles and satellites to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Superpower

Superpower is a term used to describe a state with a dominant position, which is characterised by its extensive ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Terrorism

Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.

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The Expanse (novel series)

The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels series (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

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The Expanse (TV series)

The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on ''The Expanse'' series of novels by James S. A. Corey.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tor.com

Tor.com is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, as well as an imprint of Tor Books.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World government

World government or global government is the notion of a common political authority for all of humanity, yielding a global government and a single state that exercises authority over the entire Earth.

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2011 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2011.

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2012 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2012.

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2013 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2013.

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2014 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2014.

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2015 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2015.

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2016 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2016.

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2017 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2017.

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433 Eros

433 Eros, provisional designation, is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean-diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_Wakes

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