Hi Jeff,

First off, thanks for your interest in the Near Future Space & Realistic Space Opera list here on GoodReads (
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... ). You clearly have an interest in international science fiction. I do too. Check out Crash and Gradisil, both on the list and good reads.

You are receiving this note because voted for Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1) along with 7 other people and this is causing a space policy drama genre book to show up on a list where it should not be. Worse, it is helping to cause it to show up #1 on a list that it should not be on at all. Please be kind and help this list by removing your votes for this book and for ones similar to it in nature.

This list was not intended to be a list for space detective/police thriller books. There is nothing wrong with them, but the goal of this list is to come up with books that are more about going to space, being in space, etc. and not about drama or fantasy in space. Another example of a space police drama genre that comes to mind is Pandora's Star which I recently read. I started the list after reading Gradisil because it was clear that that the recommendations on good reads and the lists on good reads were not differentiating between space genres at all, or at least not very well. I hoped to get some reading in a specific genre and to share what I found with others.

The Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson is more along the right lines, though books for this list do not have to be quite so dry that they don't have some creativity and imagination.

Thanks,

Bob

PS-I would be happy to add some space mystery or space police drama genre books to a list if you wanted to create one.

I believe I removed the book from the list. Please let me know if that is not the case.
Thanks.
Jeff

Thanks. I talked to the folks from goodreads and apparently there is a personal bookshelf option, but so far there isn't a way or plan to create a means to curate lists.