Another large series I've picked up (thanks Roy for the recommendation), apparently I have much trust in my memory tp keep all these stories straight. This one gives me Cowboy Bebop feels, specifically the grittiness, which is as high praise as any. The plot is also super grand, like Knight Run (which I remember very little of the enormous cast of characters, much like Tower of God opps), so I'm looking forward to reading the subsequent books.
One quotation to share:
There were children playing on the commons. He thought of them as children, though he remembered thinking of himself as an adult at that age. Fifteen, sixteen years old. They wore OPA armbands. The boys spoke in loud, angry voices about tyranny and freedom. The girls watched the boys strut. The ancient, animal story, the same whether it was on a spinning rock surrounded by hard vacuum or the stamp-sized chimpanzee preserves on Earth. Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing. Maybe for other people, the patched-together fighting ships of the OPA, the water haulers, the Martian gunships, the Scopuli, the Canterbury, the Donnager, the hundred other ships that had died in small actions since the system had turned itself into a battlefield- but not you. And when youth was lucky enough to survive its optimism, all Miller had left was a little fear, a little envy, and the overwhelming sense of life's fragility.
Miller is definitely my favourite character.
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