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Leviathan Wakes

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A Ceres detective and an ice hauler's crew chasing the same missing girl

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Executive officer Jim Holden answers a distress call, and the ice hauler Canterbury is destroyed. He blames Mars in public, and the Solar System slides toward war. On Ceres, Detective Joe Miller searches for Julie Mao, a tycoon's daughter, and becomes obsessed with her. Their paths cross on Eros Station, where the company Protogen unleashes the protomolecule, an alien agent, on the population. Holden and his crew, now on the Rocinante, help raid Protogen's research station. Eros, taken over by the protomolecule, heads for Earth. Miller finds what's left of Julie and talks her into turning away. The station crashes into Venus, where something begins to build.

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What changed on screen

  1. ChangeAvasarala from the start

    The book sticks with Holden and Miller, and Avasarala never appears. The show puts her on Earth from the first episode.

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  2. ChangeOne book, a season and a half

    S1 covers roughly the first half of the book. The rest, up to the fall of Eros, opens S2.

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  3. ChangeEros, live

    In the book, billions watch Eros crash into Venus live. On the show, it stays hidden from the public.

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  4. ChangeThe shot at Dresden

    In the book we get Holden's thoughts as Dresden tries to win him over, and we see he nearly gave in before Miller fires. The show has no way to show that.

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