The Great Hullabaloo: BOOKS.

[Martin]

yeah, the ME vibe is strong with The Expanse so far. Hell of an easier read than Dune lol.

To be fair, they are pop books. But well made.

I get the ME comparison. It works a bit. But the Reapers i. The Expanse are much scarier.

[Abraham Smashington]

Finished book one of the Expanse. On to book two. Can I watch the first season of the show now or will it spoil shit in book 2? I know it has some characters from other books but mostly want to know if it will spoil any big reveals from book 2.

[Martin]

Finished book one of the Expanse. On to book two. Can I watch the first season of the show now or will it spoil shit in book 2? I know it has some characters from other books but mostly want to know if it will spoil any big reveals from book 2.

Season 1 end right after Eros. No problem there. S2 meshes book 2 and 3.

[Abraham Smashington]

Sweet. Almost done with book 2. About half way through atm.

[Martin]

1 to 3 is amazing.
4 goos, but lots of important events.
5 is amazeballs.
6 too
7-9 great.

overall, it’s a fucking great series.

[Abraham Smashington]

Finished book 2. That last page had me like WHAAAAAAT?

Dug it. Almost done with season 1 of the show. On to book 3.

[Martin]

Yesssssssssss

[Martin]

What was that last page btw? I don’t remember.

[Abraham Smashington]

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they win the battle, kill the admiral, and Holden is chilling and then all of a sudden Miller shows up all Jedi ghost like and is like what's up broooo

[Martin]

Aw yeah!

There’s an explanation for that.

[Abraham Smashington]

On book 4 of the Expanse series now. Book 3 was a bit of a slog overall as it was like one giant battle sequence (even though I dug the stuff with Clarissa and Anna) buttttt now that the story is completely changing with what happened at the end of book 3, book 4 starts off fucking awesome and I have a feeling this series is gonna go in a whole new direction which I'm totally down for.

Overall digging this series so far and will continue reading the rest.

[Martin]

Book 4 will explain some protomolecule shit. People tend to like that book less, but I dug it.

Peaches is awesome.

[Abraham Smashington]

Book 4 is done. Wasn't bad. I dug that it felt like a completely different series. I liked that whole thing with the

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stargate shit essentially just throwing people to random worlds

and I want a whole movie of that shit.

Half way done with book 5. That reveal of

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Naomi having a kid

and then (at least where I'm at)

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being the second in command of that terrorist mission of dropping asteroids on the Earth because he stole some stealh materials from MArs

and I'm all like dammmmn.

That being said, Martin does ANY of this shit end up in the Expanse show? Like do we even get anything with

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New Terra/Illus or whatever

with that insane security chief?

[Martin]

Yep.

That’s season 4 to 6.

But Bull ain’t in it. It changed a bit. Some roles were merged.


Like, most of TV’s Drummer is Michio Pa in the books. But it’s for the better if you ask me.

Man, book 5 is where it’s at. I loved it.

Amos is the man.

[Martin]

Also pay attention

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to the Mars stealth shit happening. The opening of the gates means a lot to Mars.