Leviathan (Auster novel) building accidentally went off. According to the forensic reports that have just been published, the man was killed instantly. His body burst into dozens of small pieces, and fragments of his corpse were found as far as fifty feet away from the site of the explosion. —"Leviathan" Through his own investigations, the narrator attempts to answer questions as to who the man was who blew himself up, why he was found with a homemade bomb, and what circumstances brought him to a violent end. "Leviathan" is borrowed from the biblical sea monster that Thomas Hobbes used as a metaphor for
Leviathan in popular culture James S. A. Corey which was a Hugo Awards Best Novel nominee and Locus Awards Best Science Fiction Novel nominee in 2012. The narrative history book "Against His-Story, Against Leviathan" by Fredy Perlman critically explores the progress of Hobbes's Leviathan, as western civilization, inspiring and defining Anti-civilization theory. Jim Butcher's series, "Codex Alera", mentions leviathans as part of the Alera realm, a species of giant creatures swimming in the river and seas. In the 4th book of the series, "Captain's Fury" the main characters attempt to trick their enemy by swimming past their ship when leviathans are nearby. The leviathans