7/7/2023 0 Comments If you like the expanse booksThe three factions hate each other and war could break out at any moment.įrom this general setting, events I won’t spoil put together a ragtag crew of folks, give them a ship, and make them the ongoing center of an evolving conspiracy that is alien in origin but made lethal thanks to layers of human greed, stupidity and politics. The Belters have all evolved into tall skinny people who can barely survive in full gravity and have to live on whatever scraps they can get. Mars hates Earths’ supposed superiority and is all about building a super-strong military. Rather than one big happy human family, these civilizations away from Earth have developed their own identities and cultures. ![]() I don’t believe they go much further that because it’s all awful dead space and would take too long anyway.īesides, there is trouble enough with just half a solar system. Beyond that, people live in/on “The Belt”, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, as well as some of Jupiter’s moons. ![]() Earth is still the center of human existence, but we also occupy Mars. THE EXPANSE is a political science fiction story set in a future in which humans have harnessed high-speed space travel, but in a small way relative to other science fiction properties. The story remains the same regardless of how you get it. But even without that drama, the show has a fairly enthusiastic fanbase, eager to tell you it’s one of the best science fiction shows you can watch. The Amazon season popped out in December, so it’s still relatively new. Part of that is because it made news when Amazon rescued the show from cancellation by buying it from Syfy at the end of its third season. More often, however, I hear about the EXPANSE television series. Naming device aside, they are very attractive books that look fetching all in a row at the bookstore and not on my Kindle. They all have titles like BABYLON’S ASHES and TIAMAT’S WRATH, which all sound cool but tell you nothing about the book itself. I have no idea what the current books are called either. It doesn’t have a name yet, but that doesn’t matter. There are currently eight with a ninth final novel supposedly coming out this year. Corey, who is actually two writers: Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck - have been around since 2011. Within my particular orbit, THE EXPANSE frequently shows up as both. There is so much noise out there when it comes to books you should read and shows you just have to watch. What follows is a wonderful pastiche of space battles, alien horror, and heroic deeds.Everyone be cool, I’m doing this WITHOUT spoilers… This plot point ties together the Rocinante crew with a noir-like police detective named Joe Miller, a Belter on Ceres Station pursuing a missing girl. ![]() Dropped into the middle of all this is an alien substance, or proto-molecule, of unknown origins. At the center of it all are the main characters, the multinational crew of a gunship called the Rocinante: James Holden from Earth, Naomi Nagata from the Belt, Amos Burton from Earth, and Alex Kamal, a former Martian Navy pilot. The details and politics can get quite complex but they make sense and are easy to follow. A cold war exists between the Earth’s United Nations and two other factions: Mars and the OPA, or Outer Planets Alliance (basically anyone who is not from Earth or Mars.) that mostly inhabit the asteroid belt and moons. While Earth, itself, is unified under the banner of the United Nations, the age old squabbles have pursued humans into space. The opening premise of The Expanse is quite simple: humankind has populated the Sol system and reached the limits of its ability to expand beyond it. Corey is the pen name used by co-authors Daniel Abraham and TY Franck and they have created an exciting, intelligent, scary and, most of all fun adventure set in a quickly expanding universe. Corey called The Expanse, Leviathan Wakes, appeared in a very crowded field. In 2011, the first novel in a new science fiction series by James S.A. Corey are some of the best SciFi literature in a long time.
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