![]() ![]() Almost every character introduced, whether a constant main character, or a short term player is fleshed out with sufficient detail to have not only a visual feel for who and what they are, but how they feel about their world around them and what their motivations might be for taking the actions they do. Personal relationships one minute, and solar system wide action the next. The authors do an exceptional job of creating settings on a very grand scale, and never straying too far toward either the macro or micro view. ![]() There's adventure aplenty too with space battles, space station battles, and weird mysteries of how we might come across an alien entity or civilization without ever meeting one in person. The stories are deep and detailed, and lean heavily into human interaction, governments and leaders, and how they might behave in a solar system level environment, and then beyond. I also find it interesting that the authors say they are not scientists/physicists themselves and were not trying to be overly techy about anything, because the science involved in these stories is some of the most believable and accurate I've seen in an otherwise non-tech adventure saga. None of the books are really a story on their own, it's really an ongoing serial adventure with some constant characters and many shorter term, but it successfully builds one of the most believable near-future universes I think I've ever read. ![]() Even had I never seen the screen version, I would have been absolutely taken by this story. I really think the entire cast and production overall were absolutely top notch and I place Expanse right up there with Firefly as being uniquely well thought out and believably portrayed. A couple that were portrayed so uncannily well that you question which came first, TV or book, are Avasarala and Amos, with Alex, Bobbie, and Holden right behind. The characters in the book were brilliantly portrayed by the actors in the series, and as such have become my mental images as I read the books. I have to confess that I watched the TV series first, but unlike many other books adapted to screen, these stories do not differ greatly from the written version to the TV production (at least not until the fifth and sixth season, but I know there were reasons). But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. Tiamat's Wrath - Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. Persepolis Rising- In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Babylon's Ashes- The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Nemesis Games- A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Cibola Burn- The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Abaddon's Gate- For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain in their new - possibly temporary - autonomy. Corey Expanse Series 8 Books Collection Set: Leviathan Wakes- Humanity has colonised the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt.Ĭaliban's War- While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. ![]()
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