Review: Memory's Legion, by James S.A. Corey
by
Stuart Holland
The duo that is James S.A. Corey has done it again. This is a page turner and a welcome trip back into The Expanse universe. I had never read any of the short stories in this compilation before, so it was all new to me, despite some being years old. It was a great series of snapshots of side stories that fit between the novels. Some fill in background for characters you know and love, others are little snippets of a wider world we didn’t otherwise get to see. And while they are part of a wider story, each short story also tells a whole story in itself.
I enjoyed the author’s notes about each story. They were short, but captured a bit more of the process of making the books and the literary experimentation involved in the shorter fiction.
It has been a long time since I read The Expanse novels, so there are definitely details I will have missed, but I thoroughly enjoyed the stories regardless. I’m a little sad now that it’s the last of The Expanse books that I’m aware of, so there isn’t more for me to read.
