Last night I finally made it to see Amos greet the linguist , and apart from going back now to read Memory's Legion, I'm basically done with the whole series.

What a ride!

I had this to say this morning about Leviathan Falls. No spoilers:

Wow, what a place to tie things off.

I keep going back to the idea of narrative distance. By the back trilogy of the series, and in almost every sense of the phrase, things have come a long, long way. Characters seen as young and impulsive early on have become the wise elder statesmen. A world tightly bound to technological realism and its consequences now leans so hard into Clark's Law that what was science fiction now reads like fantasy. Do this dance wrong, and it can be horrifically jarring.

Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck danced it right.

Whether planned from the very outset or the result of very careful editing, the book pulls a lot of loose threads and foreshadowing from as early as Leviathan Wakes. Falls is absolutely haunted by the narrative with its every step.…