Drive

A pretty decent “prologue” to the larger story at hand in The Expanse. I think it would have benefited from a little more wiggle room in terms of story length, but in what we got, it was a fair introduction to the creator behind the mysterious Epstein drive. While I wasn't looking for a purely scientific survey behind the drive and how it works, it would have been nice to dig more into Solomon's backstory as an “engine engineer.” I did enjoy the back-and-forth of his past and present, as well as the change of tenses with each section. And while it ends on a dour note, the world around it makes you want to know what life was like years before we meet Holden, Miller, and the rest of the characters in their present day.