Leviathan Wakes
- Published
- 15 June 2011
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN-13
- 9781478998938
- Type
- novel
About this book
Leviathan Wakes opened The Expanse in June 2011, running 592 pages under the byline James S. A. Corey and launching the numbered sequence that Caliban's War would continue the following year.
Key facts about Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey wrote Leviathan Wakes, a novel on our list. It has been out since 15 June 2011. The book has 592 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781478998938 to find the main one.
Leviathan Wakes is book 1 of 10 in The Expanse series. The series has 10 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 15 March 2022.
Additionally, James S. A. Corey writes The Captive's War as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Faith of Beasts is the latest published James S. A. Corey book on file, from 14 April 2026.
About James S. A. Corey
James S. A. Corey is the joint pen name of American authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, best known for The Expanse, a nine-novel space opera following the crew of the ice-hauler-turned-warship Rocinante through a solar system fractured by political conflict between Earth, Mars, and the Belt, and complicated by the arrival of an alien technology called the protomolecule. See every James S. A. Corey book in order.
Its place in The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes is book 1 in the The Expanse series. It is followed by Caliban's War. See the full The Expanse reading order.
Two hundred years from now, humanity has spread across the solar system — Earth, a crowded and politically fractious Mars, and the asteroid Belt, whose miners and dockworkers live under the thumb of both. When a conspiracy on an ice hauler triggers a chain of events involving a missing girl, a protomolecule that rewrites the rules of biology, and the fragile balance between three rival powers, a rag-tag salvage crew on the gunship Rocinante and a jaded Belter detective get pulled into events that will decide…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841499888
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781973776239
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783453317819