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Originally Posted by AThirstyMind
I've recently reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.C. Corey (really two guys). It's a good old fashioned space opera. I loved it.
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I'm going to second this recommendation. This is the best, new, space opera-ish scifi I've read in a really long time (and the best scifi I've read this year). It's the first book in a planned series (The Expanse), but this first volume wraps up all it's major plotlines tidily while still leaving room for the later novels. No cliffhanger/stay tuned ending.
It's a mid-future setting where humans have sparsely colonized the solar system, but that's it. There's no FTL drive that allows humanity to explore/fill the galaxy yet.
The technology is plausible without being a lesson in quantum mechanics and besides all the elements of good space-opera, there's touches of horror and noir as well. And even a little comedy.
James S.A. Corey is the pseudonym for Daniel Abraham (
Long Price Quartet,
The Dragon's Path) and Ty Franck (George R.R. Martin's Assistant).