Characters
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James Holden
- Earther
- Leader
- Tries to ignore the problems around him
- Always relying on Naomi when things did not go to plan p.157
- p.158 used to joke about marines while in the navy, now he does not do it because they gave their lives to save him
- p.174 finally calm after the events with the donnager, they are now on the tachi which is a martian warship. everyone on the crew is happy
- First Half
- Will fight to protect his cremates
- Will protect all innocent peoples, even the ones he does not know.
- Conflicts with Miller
- Second Half
- Irrational
- Emotional
- Does not think about the consequences of his actions. - Naive
- Thinks there are no bad endings to telling the truth - Naive
- Wants a transparent society
- Optimistic view of the world,
- Righteous
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Miller
- Belter
- First Half
- Works for an Earther company at first
- Belter
- Internal Conflict
- Good Detective
- Stubborn - really wants to find the next clue to the case
- Lonely - wants a comfort person, his police partner is not enough
- Second Half
- Rational
- Sentimental
- Trusts his own moral judgement
- Self-Sacrificial or just wants to rest
- Pessimistic view of the the world
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Naomi Nagata
- Belter
- Pragmatic
- Appears tough at first, cries for the first time p.159
- p.178-179 not a leader
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Amos Burton
- Earther
- “Trigger-finger”
- Sees Naomi as the boss, not Holden or ship captain
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Alex Kamal
- Martian
- Trigger-hungry
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Shed
- Earther
- Dies Later
- Irrelevant to the story for the most part
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Fred Johnson
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Anderson Dawes
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Julie Mao
Old Annotations
| 2.2 | |
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| 7.1 | |
| 7.2 - 8.1 | |
| 8.2 | |
| 9.3 | |
| 9.7 | |
| 10.3 | Belters don’t like inners (earth and mars) |
| 14 | morals & holden |
| Julie/Holden/Miller 1 2 3 | The author swaps back and forth between envrionments/characters |
| 18.last | |
| 19.last 2 | |
| 21.1 | Prejudice against people not from where you live Belters → Inners, Inners → Belters |
| 21-22 | OPA |
| 24.big paragraph | |
| 25.2 | Fake like in space |
| 26 | relatedness |
| 28 | Alex, mars settlement |
| 31.2-the rest of the page | bunny mode alex dialogue |
| 32.last | Naomi aint worried about space |
| 33-36 | Figuring out why the scopuli was Turns out it was to frame mars for war (later on) |
| 35 | Amos humming, holden and Amos do not really like each other, they’re more colleagues than friends |
| 38-40 | Miller and father, belter drugs |
| 41-43 | Havelock breakdown, he dies later by a harpoon Belters see earth and mars as the same Martians and earthers do not like each other |
| 47-… | build up to stealth ship, holden leadership Sacrifice to save the others on the Canterbury Ade remained calmed through knowing she will die soon Everyone was for the most part calm, they tthough tthat the 6 ships attacking them were just pirates, they thought they only sent torpedos which should destroy a large ship like the Canterbury. Turns out they were not pirates and those were not torpedos, those were nukes. |
| 55-56 | Holden’s resiliency, mad, but he is the XO of the ship and now technically captain, stand up for everyone that died |
| 57 naomi dialogue | Put shed to sleep, they know he is unstable, also putting holden in his place— a voice of reason |
| 58 | Stealth tech, who did it earth or mars?, holden says its mars |
| 61.miller dialogue | air and water isnt fake for you earther, put envrionmentals over eveything else |
| 64-65 | riot vs swat |
| 66-67` | the type of person miller is |
| 68-69 | miller talking to the crowd |
| 73-74 | Holden’s thoughts, he is a good man |
| 80.1 | their power is our fear |
| 83 | protecting havelock because he was “in a different gravity” |
| 86-89 | who Julie is |
| 92 | Did i really just say buddy |
| 92-94 | Shed and Holden |
| 95-98 | Fred Johnson, hero fallen from grace turned back into hero. He knows someone is trying to start a war and believes mars has nothing to gain from it |
| 108.1 | How belters are treated. |
| 114-115 | Yao is extremely confident |
| 117-119 | holden and lopez drugs, 30 billion on earth, multiple parents |
| 128-129 | julie is strong, was “attacked” |
| 130 | anderson dawes doe snot want julie to be found by miller. He works as the spokesperson for the OPA on Ceres. Jules Pierre Mao worked with him |
Annotations
p.179 tycho station intro p.180 nauvoo p. 181 - holden independence and meeting fred johnson p.183 - donnager → belters happy p.184 - miller is a bum p.185 - stubborn miller how did holden survive p.188 - no more government on ceres p.191 - earth is best hope for peace but they left ceres, do they not want peace? p.197 - mars and belt war is suicidial, einstein reference p.200 - naomi and holden start of love story? p.201-202 holden by himself wondering p.204 life immortality of youth p.206 - miller wants to do more with his life p.214 - everyone is chilling besides holden, they dont want to leave tycho but he still has vengancep. p.217 - naomi praising holden p.218 - difference between show and book, mars and belt are actually at war in the book p.219-221 - Holden vs fred - fred is not very trustworhty p.221 - scoupli discovery lionel polanski, finally a lead for holden - he’s now foaming at the mouth to go after being resistant. p.224-226 - miller talking to church misisonary very good for culminating p.230 - contrast between eros and ceres there was more on a previous page p. 232 - amos and alex are playful, holden and naomi are a bit more serious p.234-235 - once again amos is very trigger happy P.239-241 - description of each character according to miller p.240 - miller treating the situation like hes still at star helix p.245 - Julie mao found p.246 - naomi “doesnt like blood” - i dont know how else to put it p.249 - naomi thinks miller knew julie p.252 - armed guys are not local, could they be someone else - theyre protogen p.253 - holden asks how miller knows who julie is p.254 - julie found something about phoebe bug (protomolecule) p.261 - an orgaized group of people retrieved julie’s body and are after holden p.262 - use of bioweapon not on eros? fools p.263 - START OF THE EROS INCIDENT - eros is now on lockdown, crowd forced to go to radiological safety confinement - the protomolecule kill zone p.263 - alex’s expereince in rad shelter. p.265 - new security guys from luna carne por la machina p.268 - remember the stolen riot gear on ceres, now theres ceres junnkies on eros with the same gear acting as police. p.269-270 - maintainance tunnels are small becasue the original belters were small p.271 - archetypal lense (holden and miller leave) p.274 - miller and holden dosed with lethal radiation p.275 - they learn that the people were infected with with julie had p.277 - miller used to have a ‘family’ p.278 - miller didnt like killing, now on eros, he enjoys it p.281 - julie over miller’s shoulder, protogen hired the guards p.282 - what is really happening p.284-285 - miller’s psychological lens p. 287 - naomi and the rest abononed holden and miller, she did say she would do it and holden agreed to it p.289 - holden does not want to die even though i think he likes to be the sacrifice character. also oppression by “cops” p.290 - holden is not very good at the whole saving part p.293 - lawyer fighitng back, shot and killed there was a crowd mowed down on a previous page p.294 - another miller psychological lens p.295 - there are faster ways of killing people on eros than this, not genocide or murder. p.296 - miller and holden talk about the sensors and cameras that protogen is using. Eros is a laboratory - petri dish, and another miller psychological lens p.298 - the rad shelters made ‘zombies’ explains why julie broke all the lights, the protomolecule feeds of a radiation p. 304 - miller is ready to kill the half-zombie innocent person, holden stops him, argument
SECOND HALF OF BOOK
p.314 - holden quote about regrets p.314-315 - naomi and holden love each other p.317 - cancer meds for the rest of their lives, naomi taking red’s job p.318 - 319 - what would havelock and muss think of miller on eros? killing others is good or bad? important p.322 - deception and war - eros incident ending p.327 -EARTH SHIPS FROM LUNA DESTROYED THE CANTERBURY AND DONNAGER OR SO WE THINK. p.328-329 - Holden wants to broadcast this information to the entire solar system. Miller sees the bullshit and is the only voice of reason here. Holden’s false accusations starts wars. holden argues that the people need their secretes hidden p.338 -339 - miller’s seeing julie on secuirty p.342-346 - PHOEBE PROTOMOLECULE origins and use AND DRESDEN p.351 - amos is a immume to digusting things p.355-356 - Earth nuked deimos miller says holden caused it Earth would lose against a war with Mars -says earth, unless they strike first p.360-361 - miller and holden fighting about whether they should send the data out. p.362 - 363 - miller has some common sense, holden is incapable of thinking 10 steps in the future good for culminating p.370 - belter inner gossip —seing belters as aliens not humans because of slang and appearance p.381 - Miller and havelock exchanging info, only partner he ever had p.382 - not a fight between inners and belters, not anymore p.384 - miller self sacrifice or is it revenge? carelessness? to go on station destruciton mission p.396 - holden leadership knows amos will get the job done, naomi is worreied p.401 - belter creole p.402 - miller is not actually fit for combat, why did he join? p.403 - another miller psychological lens p.405 - opa mowing down civilians at the station, messes with miller’s conscience p.412 - holden cannot proceess moral complexities p.414 - holden thinks the dead scientist should be more dead p-416 - dresden smiling, holden doesnt like that p.417-420 - do the ends justify the means? saving humanity? p.422 - contrast between holden and miller. miller shot dresden, needed to be done, holden wanted justice p423-424 - posthuman, julie again p.425-426 - earth mars and belt fighting, logic of Protgen - disconnected from huamnity p.428 - protomolecule is builidng something on eros p.431 - julie is a comfort person p.438 - holden and miller talking p.443 - julie and miller “talking” p.445 - turning screams of eros into music - miller thinks the young are naive p..458-460 - miller thinks too fast, fred doesnt like that he killed dresden, holden does not trust fred still p.464-465 - miller on thenauvoo and he s listening to the music comingt from eros. he then talks with julie. she is starting t fee more like a disease p.467 - war without end p.468-469 - why miller loves julie and about innere who “become” belters julie escaping p.470 - does it hurt dream - diogo p.472-473 - holden with multiple parents ruins his group dynamics p.475 - naomi can adapt fast to combat p.478 - the belt is like a network p.479-480 - holden’s reason for not shooting dresden. hes honourable and a peacemaker, once again holden is too shortsighted. dreden is not just a prisoner . Naomi thinks that miller di the right thing p.485 - miller wants to stay on eros very different from the show p.488 - the voices miller hears on eros is the voice of eros. Shouting DO NOT TOUCH ME refering to the nauvoo. EROS MOVED P.493 - EROS DISAPPARED OFF RADAR P.494-495 - earth and holden working together. UNN ship following very different from the show P.501 - did the universe want this for miller? p.509-510 - holden must sacrifice him and his crew to save earth p.511 - holden cannot kill crew, mad at himself, naomi helps , different from show, miller tells them to stop not holden p.512-513 - earth mars and belt are stagnant p.515 - holden is resourceful p.520 - do the job - miller and julie p.525-526 - miller realized julie is the voice of Eros and wants to go earth p.532 - julie thinks shes in the razorback and wants to go home to earth p.533 - miller is willing to sacrifuice, naomi trusts miller - change of character p.535-536 - holden convinces fred to delay missles - holden and miller change of heartikk p.539 - the new versus the old miller p.543-545 - Miller meets julie finally, julie is scared, talked out of going to earth. Miller fought for a person he never met. Miller takes off his suit p.556 - fred speaking, tension between earth mars and belt are the highest, martian elections could change p.559 - turn miller into a symbol of the belt