We´re not just nothing in the endlessness of space
We also don´t know anything about the sheer potential that could have already been unleashed In othWe´re not just nothing in the endlessness of space
We also don´t know anything about the sheer potential that could have already been unleashed In other worlds, including self destruction options. That´s the extremely satisfying and thereby hard sci fi part that explains both the protomolecule and the gates by combining astrophysics, theoretical physics, xenobiology/psychology, and somewhat the
Dark Forest theory too Because humankind simply doesn´t understand what we could be dealing with, we believe in endless exponential economic growth, but don´t get what this could mean on the large, cosmic scale of seeming eternity. Look what humankind has first accomplished in 10.000 years until the industrial revolution. From then, we lifted off like crazy and invented and researched tons of sheer magical stuff (just look at your freaking smartphone) within centuries. Look where we could be in just hundreds or even tens of thousands of years. Sounds great, except that there could be
Civilizations that aren´t millions, but billions of years ahead No matter if it´s the Kardashev scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardash... Clarketech, or different theories about reality, dimensions, time travel, quantum nano multiverse stuff, we don´t just know and understand nothing, we are nothing too. Not even insects, more like microbes or, my favorite Matrix analogy, parasitic viruses. Get another agnostic kick created by kurzgesagt: The largest star in the universe - size comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mnSD... The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FH9c...
Billion years ahead aliens could use these things like we use nuclear power plants However, enough existential crises instead of a real review, back to the show featuring
An incredible crew of characters Directly linked to the understandable and well explained hard sci fi elements and evolving and aging throughout the series. That´s what many other sci fi authors just don´t get, they have their protagonists separated from worldbuilding, Chekhovs and MacGuffins, and thereby main plot. Just a few exceptional and very successful writers understood that and created some of the most mindblowing, soul penetrating brainf***s you´ll ever experience. While becoming friends with protagonists struggling with normal human issues in a future we could be awaiting.
Right before the end, now everything is coming together, well prepared over the last years and the resolutions and new connections feel so right, realRight before the end, now everything is coming together, well prepared over the last years and the resolutions and new connections feel so right, realistic, just perfect, I would call it the best novel of this already great series.
Evil aliens related to an ancient genocide in some of the systems aren´t so interested in an expanding humankind and will show their true potential for destruction in the grand finale.
The series shows the evolution and history of Sci-Fi, integrating many old and some new ideas and leading the fusion of plot and character, worldbuilding and action, realism and fantasy to an unknown level. It´s also cool that the authors quite kind of played with different subgenre plots like horror, thriller, space western,… in some books, switched perspectives from mainly POV to a wider field and developed and improved their writing style. Starting with Leviathan wakes, their mastery of the subject has continuously increased, culminating in this pearl.
The authors have taken the best out of different Sci-Fi trends, the epic battles of military Sci-Fi, the love for the characters of social Sci-Fi and the metapolitical, economic, and ideological factors of higher social Sci-Fi, the easy-going smoothness of space opera, some rare hard Sci-Fi and cyberpunk elements and balanced a unique mixture of elements. It´s amazing how Sci-Fi evolved from often very egocentric, unobjective, agenda infested, weird, lengthy, and even boring writing to a crucible of ideas.
After having read many Sci-Fi series I would say that it´s one of the most accessible to all audiences, avoiding the lengths and weaknesses of mentioned subgenres and just taking the best of the best for the, highly objectively, best and most mindblowing all time favorite genre.
We are left with a pretty bad future perspective for humankind, but who knows, maybe we will survive in the final, last part of this epic nine-part series.
So some time has passed and a new setting has to be established and what is better for that than new colonies, a fragile peace between Mars, Earth andSo some time has passed and a new setting has to be established and what is better for that than new colonies, a fragile peace between Mars, Earth and the belt, a new enemy rising and waiting in the background, and the general preparation for the big showdown of the series.
It´s always hard to avoid spoiling, so I will cherrypick colonizing, getting old in space in Sci-Fi in general, and the Lovecraftian old ones from this part.
Colonizing thousands of star systems doesn´t just significantly boosts the probability of humankind surviving wars with extraterrestrials, local catastrophes such as supernovas, or extermination wars if some human fractions go haywire and turn genocidal, it also increases the chance of attracting attention. Not to talk of all the plot options that for instance Dr.Who and the two Star franchises used for expanded universes. The authors are now in the position of choosing the best ideas Sci-Fi has given us so far and to mix it together to an unforgettable space opera cocktail that really kicks in. Just one more, barkeeper, please, can´t get enough. Of course, colonizing can´t take place without repeating errors of history by establishing the best and worst forms of government. Again. In space. Coming from enlightened democracies, but thinking that´s so boring, so why not try a dictatorship once again, sounds fun, autocracy rocks.
But what if it´s more difficult, like, let´s say, on earth were many small principalities may have a loose, democratic union, but are too weak and militarily not coordinated enough to fight the invasion of a global superpower. Beamed to space, humankind is the principality and the superpower are possible alien invaders. What sense does it make if all the democratic, helpless mini-states get invaded and exterminated one after the other if one benevolent dictator could unite them to form a strong union against the invaders and have a real chance against them? Is it better to become extinct with the right to vote or to survive in a not sooo evil autocratic state?
The idea that the crew got old and we see how they evolved is a fine twist, the influence of youth and seniority, of wisdom and curiosity, playing with age tropes, is always a productive endeavor and tends to be combined with a bit of time travel or parallel universes. But we are in the Expanse universe, so no too unrealistic technologies (for humans), just a boost for the character development and the question of how living longer and longer until immortality enters the stage may influence human life. Might get handy if it happens when the colonies or habitats are already found of finished because otherwise, it could get a bit overcrowded on earth.
The mystery about what might be lurking in the shadow is a basic element of many genres and human nature in general and horror trivializes it down to a terrifying, but not so world-shattering happening with local spooky events. Except if one is in the haunted, abandoned mental asylum stupid friends thought would be fun to illegally enter at the anniversary of when one escaped inmate butchered a whole family. In Sci-Fi, the evil spirits and ghosts are just the appetizer for the real dark monster in the background, lurking for eons, possibly immortal, emotionless or too highly evolved for useless feelings, bodyless entities, motivated by conquering, destroying, and from time to time studying and dissecting the one or other experimental animal. Assimilate, exterminate, resistance is futile.
The largest fleet will win, quantity has a quality all its own, and who has the right to say who and what is evil and good?
The series already played wThe largest fleet will win, quantity has a quality all its own, and who has the right to say who and what is evil and good?
The series already played with many philosophical and moral issues by reflecting true historic events in new settings, but with this part, a new dimension of playing ethics seminar is coming.
If the mightier ones in fiction (Mars, Earth, protomolecule, parts of the OPA, Lovecraftian godlike aliens) are already looking back at a history of exploiting weaker groups by indirectly killing many of them with weapons of economic war and oppression, don´t they have the right to rebel, to start a civil war against other fractions of humanity, to fight for the same rights the others see as theirs alone? If the only option left for the population is organized crime and rebellion, the bigoted elites of the old power blocs are the ones who are forcing them, just as an unfair economic and political system is today forcing many people to fight wars or become criminal. Not because they are bad, but because the dysfunctional system leaves them the only option to do evil things to survive. Is Marco a bad guy, who can say?
Belters could be a symbol and metaphor for so many real fighters against injustice and nobody would say that the oppressors should be friendly plead to give a piece of the cake, please. The problem is that it tends to escalate quickly, the vendetta revenge circle explodes, nobody is willing to step back and stay calm and the old power interests work against peace.
And where is the difference between organized crime, black market, rebels, darknet… and governments, companies, military, internet,..? The concepts are always similar, it´s just a question of the force who has the right to define who is who, the rest are market forces and the biggest fish with the best connections to legislation, government and jurisdiction wins the game. Take colonies that became superpowers and were called deviants before.
It´s one of the key elements of much Sci-Fi and world history, that the wealthy elite owning the war industry, markets, and governments has no interest in peace, prosperity, and equality because they are all bad for the business. While the whole population and even some politicians will be protesting for peace, they will keep the war and propaganda machinery running as long as possible. Even if their fraction, planet, Earth, Mars, would be destroyed, it doesn´t matter, they are prepared for every possibility and money doesn´t just know no state, it also knows no planet. Long before the plundering hordes of the winning forces will devastate the lands, they will already sit at the table of the victorious party, manipulating them to start to the next short, easy war, willing to let them fall, ultimate opportunistic war profiteers that they are.
This could even go into another Sci-Fi trope direction, that conglomerates and companies stay friendly and modest, colonizing in a fair and democratic style, trading with all others with the resources of their planets, while secretly gearing up, optionally in cooperation with other arms industries or building one up themselves, investing anything in kill tech, waiting for decades and centuries and suddenly flying around the corner, presenting their superior military force to dictate new terms. Before it might be favorable to stay pacifistic, invest in lobbying for peace and disarmament, leading the galactic union into an allegedly united future. And then smash them all. Could be a public-private partnership conglomerate syndicate monopoly too and why not led by political or religious extremists and a dictatorship and with superior superweapons.
It´s close to impossible that rebels or other fractions will have the money and equipment to become a driving force, but a multi planetary conglomerate of the arms industry will.
It´s commendable how this part has been prepared to be bombastic by directing the plot in this direction during the last parts and that it slowed down in Nemesis game to prepare for Babylon´s ashes and while the first four parts were separate entities with the metaplot meandering trough them, the fifth and sixth part could have come as one, big novel too, with the first half character-focused and the total escalation following in this one. And, quite kind as with GRR Martin or Peter F Hamilton, it´s now really complicated with all the characters, not just 4 POVs, but many different character perspectives, and that´s what thousands of pages long epic super space opera masterpieces are made for.
I am so looking forward to how it will go on, now that many narrative threads are finished, people died (sad), the power balance has changed, and much ballast is thrown overboard to accelerate towards the final. A glimpse at the unknown aliens that destroyed the protomolecule civilization shows that it will be awesome.
That´s the slowest conceptualized one so far, mainly focused on showing the personal lives of the crew, their past, and what´s going on on earth.
And tThat´s the slowest conceptualized one so far, mainly focused on showing the personal lives of the crew, their past, and what´s going on on earth.
And that´s so great because we learn so much about the characters out of the backstory that they evolve and become more eclectic, the power balance keeps changing and all in all it´s more of a preparation for the further parts, because there is not so much big action as one is used to. Now we are prepared with more three-dimensional characters, amounts of added personal tragedy and misery and even more options to switch between the metaplot and more believable main characters.
Do you still remember what happened to the largest empires in history after they have lost their colonies, industrial production capacity, and economic power, or wars of independence? They didn´t perish peacefully and the same will happen whenever the power balance is changed and the old rules are suddenly worthless. That´s already a delicate game on good old nowadays earth, but with so more factors to consider when three warmongering fractions are greedy to exploit whatever lies behind all those portals and could lose everything if they fail to expand, there is much more skin in the game.
Or imagine the impact of technology like teleportation, huge new areas with resources, wormholes, and so many political and economic mind games and thought experiments, and how organized crime will develop and flourish as an early adopter of each technology.
Terrorism, resistance fighters, partisans, pirates, rebels, and any other fraction is much freer and mobile in space, because they are impossible to track down. On earth, the martial superiority of sovereign nations could simply smash any country that would possibly hide terrorists until there is not more left anymore, but one can´t area bombard the whole solar system. What is even worth for the behemoths, the better the stealth, the more vulnerable all trade routes and interplanetary freeways are, and anyone interested in harming the economy or just spreading fear can easily and quickly attack and vanish again and demoralize with guerilla tactics and precision strikes.
The use of POVs, perspectives, and especially third-person voices and views in this whole series is great, but because there is much more character development in this part, it´s even more remarkable. As I already said in another review, it would be interesting to see the storyboard and, in this case, just how they finetuned the different angles, choosing who gets a third person and who stays just in the main plot as a background character.
It seems to me as if the writer duo is using different styles and tinkering with genres, creating hybrids and I will maybe try to differentiate how I believe it´s done in each part, what premise it has, what ideas it´s playing with in more detail when I am in a novel analytical mood or reread the whole thing when part 9 is out.
< spoiler>The novel deals with a problem that is omnipresent in Sci-Fi. Invading a planet is very hard too impossible business, already large countries on earth are nowadays close to impossible to invade. But even, or especially, large planets like super earth have one fatal flaw, that they are vulnerable to attacks from above. < spoiler>
A popular theme in Sci-Fi and something that has been described in two ways over the years in this forever eSo what to do with all those other worlds?
A popular theme in Sci-Fi and something that has been described in two ways over the years in this forever evolving genre. Just as a plot vehicle, not in detail and just for the fun of it or in too much detail for the average reader (not you, of course, you are wonderful), the prime examples are Ben Bova's Grand Tour series and Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy, both so extreme that they are just something for the true hardcore fan. The Expanse has a perfect balance of both elements, subtle interconnections of plot, persons, and worldbuilding and something for everybody's taste.
What the mentioned Hard-Sci-Fi authors have written will become reality, possibly coincidental really happen in the one or other form and be a possible instruction manual for space flight, colonizing, terraforming,… and not, I repeat not, for letting all fall in pieces because the humans are too dumb to avoid starting killing another. Again.
Once on the planet, there are so many plot options for the future. Real fantasy in the form of interdimensional, quanta, multidimensional, psi-,… stuff, tons of description possibilities for all kind of specialists of humanities and natural sciences, such as: physicists and astrophysicists playing with alternative models of matter, forces, energy,… biologists, physicians, and chemists combining real with alternative lifeforms, reproduction, health issues,… Psychiatrists (always go mad in space themselves, a funny and ironic occupational disease), sociologists, psychologists,… and yes, sadly, politicians and economists too, dealing with how to balance and mediate between so many new, fresh fractions, subgroups,… Historians and statisticians doing Big History and Asimov's psychohistory. Etc. Please feel free to initialize own mind game or add idea here, thank you.
Any field of science finds new playgrounds, an endless source of new sci-fi and science-fantasy plots and ideas. By the way plot, I would be really interested in how the balance between detailed planning and storyboarding and creative, freewriting is in the work of the two authors because they perfectly handle it all, the believable character development, the logical plot on all areas, and the vaunted realism and accuracy. Many Sci-Fi writers have a problem with plot or characters, so that they produce great Hard-Sci-Fi with less and stereotypical dialogues and wonderful worldbuilding and physics or they avoid any science and just focus on the characters in Social Sci-Fi, but such a great mix is rare.
The exponential growth of mentalities in the case of wormholes to other galaxies would be immense, in this case, we have 3 different fractions that could splinter in more or less extreme subdivisions, mentalities, faiths, political ideologies, and act them out on a planet far away from any philistine moralizer. No problem breeding your own pig monkey human octopus hybrid in a Marxist Gaia praising surveillance welfare terror state. Again, as said before, feel free to initialize own mind game or add idea here, that´s what Sci-Fi is for.
Dealing with colonialization, imperialism, exploitation of humans and resources in space with lots of innuendos, connotations, side blows,.. showing how history might repeat itself and how old power structures dictate the right to expand is a sweet, old idea and the different motivations of the main fractions are plot dynamite. But where the case is clear on earth, because the word indigenous doesn´t come from anywhere, the claims of ownership in space might be a bit trickier. What should be done, the winner, the first one, takes it all? Check how many resources are on each planet and make a distribution key to help those with 3 loser planets without any commodities by forcing the lucky ones with 3 bling bling planets to share a part of their wealth to create forced justice/communism. Or go directly turbo capitalistic instead? Again, mind game time. My guess is the military-industrial complex that will get stronger in each country as state and corporations have to cooperate against other nations to be competitive in space so that the dawn of interplanetary public-private partnership megacorporations can begin. Much work for the lawyers with the new intergalactic legislation.
The Lovecraftian factor should never be underestimated, the fear of the unknown, mighty, old entities is increasing through the books and getting more and more concrete…Look, alien ruins must play around there and press buttons and Mcguffin and Chekhov the hell out of that rusty machinery!
Meanwhile, while writing the review, a certain, well known dark desire, a reprehensible need I thought was defeated, burnt out of my membranes, starts rising in my mind again. I want to continue watching the show, but can´t read while doing it, it´s such an unwinnable pest or cholera, choose between the devil and the deep blue sea case. But I must stay strong, TV is evil, must avoid asking Alexa to start… Damn it! Miller, stop telekineticing with the remote control and voice command and spoilering the differences between the show and the book, don´t you dare…
It ended as foreseeable, I binge-watched, wasted perfect reading time, feeling dirty, ashamed, worthless. Excuse me a moment, „What Miller, is a Mister Robot, The Boyz,..“ I should consider stopping overusing this trope.
Some of the main plot elements that found interesting use in this part and the usual, weird thoughts:
Consciousness, how it could be inFanboys´ Elysium
Some of the main plot elements that found interesting use in this part and the usual, weird thoughts:
Consciousness, how it could be influenced, how subjective it is and that just seeing something as the only one doesn´t mean that it doesn´t exist. The whole Miller quanta protomolecule thing is a perfect example of that we don´t know how brains work, what could influence the poor buddy, what mental illness is, what reality is, where and what Miller is…
Programmable, intelligent matter, forms of not destructive grey/green goo. On average, it´s often this silent Doctor Who Dalek „Exterminate“ mentality with the main focus of killing all other intelligent life, produce as many nanobots as possible by using all available living and dead matter, taking control over all intelligent life, etc. But there could be less harmful applications that are motivated by an uplift-, galaxy peaceful united as one nation- and technology-share-mentality, and want to help primitives like humans in becoming a bit more modern. Gosh, how backward we are. So, for instance, helping to optimize the already working tech, avoiding of/ protecting from space disasters that could wipe out humanity, giving advanced tech,… Insert own literary preference.
Greed is good, so there is always a state, fraction, conglomerate, colony, corporation, rebels,… willing to play, research, manipulate with green or even grey goo. While just killing all humans with an escalating biological weapon that included extraterrestrial DNA, although the exobiologists were desperately trying to convince everyone that this is a really bad idea, seems already pretty naughty, grey goo is the true problem, because it is not limited to one planet, but could instead destroy the whole universe. No problem if a plague only extinguishes a planet population, it can´t spread further, but self-replicating nano or quanta killer robots that are impossible to detect are difficult to avoid if they are programmed to kill all intelligent life.
Repeating history in space. It will be unavoidable, just as greed force, or ultimate powaaa, is just so sexy that no fraction would be interested in a sustainable, democratic, galactic community or lets better say, they won´t survive long. So rebels will try to fuel wars between mightier fractions and those will have complex diplomacy and non-aggression pacts and alliances and… In Sci-Fi, it often gets complicated, dry, and boring if this element is overused, but The Expanse perfectly balances between complexity and suspense.
One thing sci-fi is always good for is showing that we ought be modest and unobtrusive, because the rules say that each piece of ancient alien tech, artifact,… is so extremely superior as if we were the rock and the forgotten weapon a supermassive black hole, it won´t even recognize if it smashes us. There is this thing called Dark Forest theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCTm... and if we take for example the ring or the slow zone or the exosymbiotic /parasitic mindfu**ing Miller, we should probably dim our primitive torches and shut up.
The realism is not just there with physics and spaceflight, but with human nature too and there is no glorification, romanticism, or altruism, no good Jedi stuff or Star Trekian starry-eyed idealism of interplanetary level, but just egoism and own interests in nearly everyone. We wouldn´t unite peacefully as one humankind and try to learn as much as possible in the case of first contact, a signal, a protomolecule,… we would want it all for us, just for us, and if it´s destroyed trying and lost for everyone, doesn´t matter, Gollum, kill the dirty other human fractions.
Now the story is already so complex that there are questions over questions regarding the three fractions, how characters will react, new characters, the alien tech,… that one could waste quite a bit of lifetime just speculating about what will happen. I´ve hardly ever read so suspense-driven Sci-Fi that cliffhangers, cuts, and surprises nearly permanent, it´s like a drug.
Sci-Fi has the immense advantage to other genres, that it can include fantasy elements in it and that there are so many books, series, ideas, circulating around that the change for something completely new is higher than in other genres with more strict conventions and what happens if one (or in this case two) authors cherrypick so many archetypes, tropes, premises,… and forge them in the fire of their brains burning hot like supernovas, the superiority of Sci-Fii over all other genres is once again,… sorry, wrong text, the reading pleasure is immense. Didn´t know where that came from, what are you saying Miller? What fourth wall, I mean dimension, wait, didn´t we…
A final reason why I love this series so much: How it´s orchestrated, how there are perfect portions of infodump, tech, space battles, dialogues, character development, metaplot intrigues, smaller plots, integration of new characters,… I´ve already fanboyed a lot about the simple greatness in the other reviews and certainly entered the realms of redundancy, so that should be enough. Go, read it!
I´ve recently finished the ninth part and I must say that the immense coherency, precision in plotting, and meta context Interconnection is everything
I´ve recently finished the ninth part and I must say that the immense coherency, precision in plotting, and meta context are so fine tuned that it is a joy to read. The effort to polish this until perfection without hardly any logic holes, lengths, and errors and to stay comprehensible must be immense and I must say that I´ve rarely ever seen something like that in Sci-Fi because it´s such a difficult task.
That´s how it often goes Mostly, the novels of a series are closed in themselves and there are not so many retrospects and connections because it can get too complicated. Peter F Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Banks, and some others come close, but Hamilton is the only one with similar interconnections and great character development.
It´s not just that the events, fractions, and happenings of the previous parts are used for reminiscences, the whole power balance, allies, and economic motivations change and keep both the honest, direct war and the hidden, political messes and backstabbings evolving. In such cases I like to imagine the storyboard with context and lines in different colors, metaplots, subplots,… and how complex and interwoven it must be for the creators standing in front and, while writing, in their work and expanding it, pun intended.
All that makes sci fi great in one package And there is everything, the war, supersoldiers, rebel fractions, big questions about the alien technology, mixed quantum fantasy elements, the highly recommended function of putting the name of the character whose POV is described in front of each chapter to get quicker and directer suspense without the need of explaining where we are, extreme attention on the detailed and realistic description of ship design, physics, life in space,... perfect balance of technobabble, harmless infodumps, tons of tropes, credible characters who are great for constructing inner and outer conflicts, unbelievable worldbuilding, sense of wonder en masse, just everything is done completely right to write one of the greatest space operas ever.
One doesn´t have to be a sci fi nerd to enjoy it Even people who aren´t so in Sci-Fi can read it just because of the characters, like someone who reads Game of Thrones because of an interest in the protagonists and not because of medieval times, magic, and stuff. I think that sci-fi needed something like that, away from the, for an average audience, too complex hard sci-fi, the too slow and less explosive social sci-fi, too indodumpy and tech-focused cyberpunk, and the general very long and complex novels of many other authors.
Side by side together on the legendary shelve One of the reasons why this series is so great may lie in the cooperation of the authors, that the weaknesses, if there are any, of the one can be compensated by the other and that everyone writes the stuff he is best at. This practice could get interesting in the future, not just with more and more collaborations to produce high-quality content, but with collaborative writing in a fictional social cataloging network, let´s call it goodbook. Whose inhabitants could, with the help of the book adaptability quote, become professional at escalating the whole thing very quickly, because the knowledge and experience of thousands of readers of specific genres are immense and the one or other might have already played with the thought of writing something, but has problems with the plot or the characters or the twists or… is just a lazy as heck procrastinating slacker. Ahem
Nom nom in space Growing food in space is a tricky thing, even with advantages such as permanent solar energy and sunshine or someday taming and using the power of black holes, etc., but the side effect is the omnipresent danger of being a very attractive target in case of a war, of getting sabotaged or of errors, black swans, tiny imbalances that accumulate to a collapse of the food production. Personally, I would avoid direct sunlight, drill deep inside asteroids, dwarf planets, or planets and build underground farming complexes, avoiding most dangers this way and focusing on a mix of bioreactors and farming, to have 2 independent food production lines in case of catastrophes.
Necromanced vomit zombies. In space! Zombies in space that vomit, what else could one´s heart wish for? But seriously, the average umbrella corporation zombie reason with out of control bioweapons can be greatly extended when one goes to space. Be it parasites, symbionts, programs converting all biological mass into something more useful for them, mind control,... it´s always great fun.
Certainly one of the best space operas ever written
Predestined to be made a major TV series This is something special for the sci fi genre, because it´Certainly one of the best space operas ever written
Predestined to be made a major TV series This is something special for the sci fi genre, because it´s one of the first big, new sci fi worlds that got transformed into a magnificent TV series. There are so many other jewels waiting to be adapted, in the best case with enough time to put all the details from the books into the series. It reminds me of Game of Thrones too, where there are these two worlds of the books and the series with their own fandoms, fan wars, and all the beef, and the books are always much better, thank you!
Together they rise I don´t know if one author alone would have produced something of this complexity and scale. This just has everything, escalating, different points of view with known and new characters, actual effects of happenings from prior parts of the series, cliffhanger over cliffhanger, great character design, piles of Sci-Fi elements, a uniting element that gets more and more complex over the time, etc.
Create more of this stuff, the books are all already there for decades! Now, thanks to enough computational power, maybe soon all my beloved Sci-Fi series may come alive on the screen, walking in the green footprints of Titans like Babylon 5, Star Trek, and Dr. Who, making the 21 first century the age of the ultimate Sci-Fi nerdgasm.
Think about amazon whatever you want, but praise the founders' decision Thank you so much, Jeff Bezos, for both saving this series and stealing my lifetime with incentives to buy too much useless stuff and wasting my time binge-watching a sci fi series. Bezos has a huge interest in asteroid mining and beliefs that it´s more important to first build a full production line than to bring all equipment from earth, which I deem the best approach too. Loud boos for Mars and planetary colonialization, that´s the second step after industrialized production. And yes, I know, there is much justified criticism of amazon, but that isn´t a topic in this review (that shouldn´t be deleted from a social cataloging site belonging to amazon), so instead something unrealistically positive as a distraction.
Maybe capitalism one day turns out not to be that bad in hindsight Because, who knows, maybe we wouldn´t have timely built enough space bases without our classic evil, capitalistic system. And were thereby gone the way of the dodo bird instead in the case of future catastrophes and cataclysmic events. Imagine no species would have brought this human madness into space, that would have been a loss for, ahem, well just for us and a win for any other sentient, peaceful species, because I simply love to compare us with any kind of evil Sci-Fi empire.
The future in space might be a repeat of world history And I mean, we wouldn´t start colonizing and exploiting other worlds again or go to war with an alien species who is interested in resources too or something. Again again. Or at least, this time not against our own species and that´s something close to a socioevolutionary progress. Just kill aliens, not humans.
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