The Expanse

So I'm listening through the audiobooks, and am on book 5. Should I finish the series before watching the show?

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“Light, as I’m sure you know, is a membrane phenomenon on the surface of time”

Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey

I don’t know what this means. For context, the side character explains it’s what allows the gate builders to act as a hive mind even though there is time delay in the speed of light.

No spoilers allowed. Only Ep 1 or 2 discussed here.

What are/were your impressions of the first 2 episodes?

I am liking the strong casting, plausible off-world conflicts and resource scarcity evaluations.

May require more hard science or physics for full immersion. Can someone explain the reason for Holden's wrench to go flying?

I've read other posts on places like Quora or Reddit about how ineffective lasers would be as anti personal or anti ship weaponry, but what about for point defense? We see cases in the story of the PDCs running out of ammo/jamming/other mechanical failures. Theoretically, lasers would be less prone to such issues as there are fewer moving parts, right? Contemporary militaries have (sea/air) ship mounted lasers to destroy or jam incoming missiles, so why wouldn't this work in space? I understand people or ships could have ablative armor but would that be practical on a missile? PDLs would not be subject to running out of ammo, and if ships can power railguns they should be able to provide ample power for lasers capable of slagging or jamming incoming missiles.

Warning: the following contains spoilers for the following works:

The Expanse, S01E01-S03E10. Abaddon's Gate (Book 3), James S.A. Corey Three-Body Problem &The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu

If you want to try it out, read 5 books and watch almost three seasons of television.

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!!The ring gates are a Dark Forest weapons system. If this was clear to others, and I'm catching up, well, I'm slow. But, I just found out about Brin (1983).!!

Then, I got it. It's such a well-structured Whatsit.

I feel pretty good about this realization. I'm glad that these works work so well together.

I've tried to upload pretty high quality, but you might be able to find higher quality from reverse image search. I've got some more too that I might post in the future.

I'm 75% of the way through the last book in the series. I've read all of the novellas. What would you recommend next?

Three only other series I can think of that's similar is the Three Body series from Cixin Liu.

Hi All,

I have read all the books. I have watched the show. Is the game the next step?

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There's a new novel, "How it Unfolds" by James SA Corey, which is unrelated to The Expanse.

It looks like it's part of an Amazon exclusive book series "The Far Reaches". I hope it'll be available by other means in the future.

Title pretty much covers it, hit me with any questions, loved the build, but took about 6 months, wouldn’t touch it for stretches.

Total pieces is around 6,000 pieces.

Its my first run and I'm currently in the middle of Season 2 (episode 8: Pyre) so if the situation changes after that please don't spoiler me.

Besides that I would say that I fell in love with the series, the setting, the people and everything.

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