But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations – and the odds are against them. When the trail leads him to The Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for – and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. The symbols don’t mean anything, but they class up the joint a little. The descriptions are from Amazon, because the ones from Wikipedia were boring. I’ve listed the top 85 books below, in no particular order. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Anathem, Cryptonomicon.Larry Niven (3 books co-authored with Jerry Pournelle): A World Out of Time, The Mote in God’s Eye, Fallen Angels, Footfall.John Scalzi: Agent to the Stars, Old Man’s War, Redshirts, The Android’s Dream.Banks: The Algebraist, Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons It’s a four-way tie with four books per author. I was thrilled to discover dozens of new titles and authors, and my reading list probably got longer by an entire year. Sudevsen ended up with over 2,000 answers. Reddit responded generously, including some titles that were older than 25 years (science fiction readers can be passionate, and if there’s a book you should read, by god they’re going to tell you, to hell with the rules).
#THE EXPANSE BOOKS REDDIT TV#
Technically, the TV show is another draft and I am unsurprised to find that the work improved with more editing and/or the re-writes provided by experts in characterization.On June 13, 2014, Reddit user sudevsen posed a question to the Books subreddit: What’s the best stand-alone science-fiction book of the last 25 years? Every character on the TV show has a third dimension: the villains, in the books, might as well be cardboard cutouts with "bad guy" written in crayon on them. That character is a billion times more interesting on TV. One book character has the trait of "likes coffee" it is mentioned a half-dozen times per novel, it stands in for a catchphrase, it is a crutch that hides the character's blank-slateness. The books are, IMO, not particularly well written their main strength is the repetitive and simplistic characterizations. Flashbacks.įWIW, the characterizations of the TV show are vastly superior to the books. To do that on TV requires.many more steps. For example, in the midst of a tense situation, a book character can remember a similar situation, contemplate the similarities to the current situation, and then apply action based on information revealed 'in their own head'. It is easier to write characters than it is to show characters: internal monologues can show a book character's backstory. I guess I just think creating high stakes, building tension, and setting smart professionals against each other is interesting enough. Are we supposed to believe that people who have to live and work together in a confined bubble in space can't get along? Or that the fight won't be interesting unless someone makes an obvious error?ĭon't get me wrong, I think the show looks great and has built out the world in some interesting ways. It's indicative of how a lot of conflict is portrayed on TV. Which is why it irks me to see so much infighting, incompetence, and general freaking out on the show. Only specific characters get to be wild or hysterical: civilians, criminals, or weirdos. They authors' frequent descriptions of the forced calm that comes over their speech in battle is part of the voice of this world, which I tend to find pretty convincing. They are competent and professional, especially during violent confrontations. They love each other like family, respect each other's skills, and take care of each other. Nearly every character is part of a crew, and the crews are almost invariably tight-knit and professional. And while I find the story compelling, what really gets me to point of saying "I love these books" are the characters and their relationships.
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