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I just caught up on the book series The Expanse is based on and mostly enjoyed it. Fast paced, lots of action, the way they try to keep things at least vaguely grounded in science is fun. My chief complaints would be that sometimes one of the non-crew viewpoint characters in a book will just be totally uninteresting to me, which makes those chapters a slog even if the overall plot is cool. Like without getting into spoilers, was anyone thinking “gently caress YES, another 30 pages of Praxidike Meng being a totally helpless nerd wallowing in self pity!” every time he came around? There’s also some pretty egregious deus ex machinas handwaved away by alien technology but that’s kind of to be expected. But yeah. Fun pop sci fi reads, would recommend. I do wish they would get a bit more into the two alien civilizations instead of just giving the barest peeks. But maybe that’s for the best. Sometimes the series that spend a lot of time trying to rationally explain how magic works or whatever end up being the cringiest.
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