Leviathan Wakes is a 2011 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Leviathan Wakes. To find your reading speed you can take one of our WPM tests. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The average reader will spend 12 hours and 8 minutes reading Leviathan Wakes at 250 WPM (words per minute). The first book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Leviathan Wakes introduces a reluctant captain and a washed-up detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide mystery that begins with a single missing girl. I’ve looked at the word count of what I’ve edited so far (and the bits I haven’t yet) and it’s around 230,000 (or 230k) words (or so and still falling as I edit although that is a Word Wordcount) but still a novel starts at 40k words and often is less than 100k these days – this seems massive – that said while Ironmaster is only a little bigger than any one “Lord of the Rings” volume it is about half the … Leviathan appears in the book of Psalms, as a sea serpent that is killed by God and then given as food to the Hebrews in … Now a Prime Original series. Old Testament references to a huge sea monster, Leviathan (in Hebrew, Liwyāthān ), are thought to spring from an ancient myth in which the god Baal slays a multiheaded sea monster. “A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. As is usually the case with science fiction, Leviathan Wakes doesn’t bog itself down with much word count padding, and often paraphrases the events in between scenes (unlike most fantasy I’ve read lately).