The Expanse Novels

[LuFins Dad]

Here’s the first chapter. It looks worthwhile… I am thinking this will be set in the same universe but a thousand years after The Expanse…

https://www.polygon.com/24164196/expanse-james-s-a-corey-new-book-mercy-gods

[LuFins Dad]

Releases Tuesday. Trying to decide between getting it on Audible or actually reading… I’ve gotten lazy about actually reading…

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Expanse Novels:

Releases Tuesday. Trying to decide between getting it on Audible or actually reading… I’ve gotten lazy about actually reading…

Audio still counts. In fact it may be superior.

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Expanse Novels:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Expanse Novels:

Releases Tuesday. Trying to decide between getting it on Audible or actually reading… I’ve gotten lazy about actually reading…

Audio still counts. In fact it may be superior.

Is Jefferson mays reading?

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in The Expanse Novels:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Expanse Novels:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Expanse Novels:

Releases Tuesday. Trying to decide between getting it on Audible or actually reading… I’ve gotten lazy about actually reading…

Audio still counts. In fact it may be superior.

Is Jefferson mays reading?

Yes.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in The Expanse Novels:

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Expanse Novels:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Expanse Novels:

Releases Tuesday. Trying to decide between getting it on Audible or actually reading… I’ve gotten lazy about actually reading…

Audio still counts. In fact it may be superior.

Is Jefferson mays reading?

I ordered it on Audible, but didn't really start listening until this past week. It's quite good, and Jefferson Mays is doing a great job, but there's one issue that I've noticed and I find amusing. There's only so many voices these narrators can create. That's not normally an issue, since there's not as much crossover to other series as you might think. Listen to Jim Dale of the Harry Potter series narrate another chidren's book series, you'll recognize Hagrid or Dumbledore's voice, but it's not a big deal or confusing since the setting is so different, and the author's voice is so different.

In this case, he's narrating for the same authors, so the author's voice is similar, and it's appealing to the same audience as the earlier books. Finally, the setting itself... It really does feel like this is a "sequel" set 2-3 thousand years after The Expanse. So Mays is trying his damndest not to have the primary characters sound like Jim, Amos, Bobby, and Naomi. So a lot of the voices sound like the generic scientistists that were throughout the Expanse. I;m sure he'll find their voices soon, but it's just something that I find a little amusing.

[LuFins Dad]

Holy cow, I just finished the 1st, and the 2nd is landing on October 1st... I wonder if the series is mostly written and they are going to release one after another?

[LuFins Dad]

Re-Listening to the original series on Audible. Listening to Leviathan Wakes right now, and I forgot just how damn perfect this book was. Hard Sci-Fi with immaculate attention to detail, with incredibly complex plot lines that are still easily followed. Fantastic characterization with extremely shades of grey while still having a two unquestionably “good” characters that still have conflict with each other on the right way to carry your morals in a very ethically conflicted world. This is just astounding.

[kluurs]

I am just finishing up on Tiamat’s Wrath. It has been a wonderful journey so far. I love some of the great one liners.

[bachophile]

geek note, tiamat is the mesopotamian sea god, from the enuma elish.