I got my copy from Amazon too, if you are not a Prime member I'd say do not pay for shipping. I ordered Saturday evening and selected free shipping for arrival this Friday. It came Sunday morning, barely 12 hours after I ordered. Must have been in the warehouse in Balzac I'm guessing.
I want to thank this thread as I am slightly over half way through Leviathan Wakes and I have purchased book 2 and 3 since I am enjoying this space opera so much. I can’t wait to finish reading the series and then start watching it.
I'd read from the start, as with any book to TV/Film adaptation some characters get combined together or cut out. So there will be a few names in the books after 3 that you may not be familiar with. You won't be completely out of the loop if you don't but miss out on more world building for sure.
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Interview with Amazon Prime staff at Comic Con before the Expanse panel says season 4 is slated for a December release date, with the season being that late it's probably going to be a full season dump all at once
Just finished Tiamat's Wrath... Fantastic book and I really enjoyed it. It'll be really fun to watch the adaptation if it makes to that point.
Few thoughts.
Spoiler!
Loads of conflict, lots of action and overall a thrilling ride start to finish and some tough parts. The first line of that book with Avasarala, and then with Bobby
I'm not sure how I really feel about the Duarte story line and the whole poke the bear bit with the "Goths". They portrayed Duarte as a very rational person that was dozens if not hundreds of steps beyond everyone else, but he did not have the foresight to plan for scientific studies to try to figure out and study who/what killed the ring gate aliens before trying to bomb the crap out of them? Seems very out of character.
I don't like that the resistance decided to blow up the shipyards, in the middle of the attack by the "Goths" that wiped out Medina. Seems like killing off one of the only resources that could hurt the aliens at all while the aliens can turn everyone's brain off, and are getting better and better at it. Sure they need to throw off the yoke of the oppressor Laconians and all, but at the cost of losing a resource to fight the aliens?
It's official, season 4 will be released December 13, 2019. They also dropped a couple of trailers and teasers... Roci landing is very SpaceX like... So hyped!
Teaser
Landing clip
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Just finished Tiamat's Wrath... Fantastic book and I really enjoyed it. It'll be really fun to watch the adaptation if it makes to that point.
Few thoughts.
Spoiler!
Loads of conflict, lots of action and overall a thrilling ride start to finish and some tough parts. The first line of that book with Avasarala, and then with Bobby
I'm not sure how I really feel about the Duarte story line and the whole poke the bear bit with the "Goths". They portrayed Duarte as a very rational person that was dozens if not hundreds of steps beyond everyone else, but he did not have the foresight to plan for scientific studies to try to figure out and study who/what killed the ring gate aliens before trying to bomb the crap out of them? Seems very out of character.
I don't like that the resistance decided to blow up the shipyards, in the middle of the attack by the "Goths" that wiped out Medina. Seems like killing off one of the only resources that could hurt the aliens at all while the aliens can turn everyone's brain off, and are getting better and better at it. Sure they need to throw off the yoke of the oppressor Laconians and all, but at the cost of losing a resource to fight the aliens?
So is Amos like an immortal alien terminator now?
I finished it up on the weekend.
Spoiler!
R.I.P. Medina Station
Bobbie going man to man against the Magnetar class ship was a completely badass way for her character to go out.
I was also a little skeptical about the plan to take out the Laconian orbital shipyards. Necessary but also such a crushing loss of tech for humanity going forward.
The resistance shipping and assembling 3 Donnager class battleships piece by piece? Freaking beltalowdahs, is there anything they can't do?
Alex and Naomi getting the Roci into space again =
Terminator Amos raises so many questions, why does he appear to be more human than the kids in the pen in Laconia after being "saved" by the repair droids? His conversation in the epilogue with Holden, will he be able to act as a new type of Miller for the last book in their war against the Goths? Will he be able to retrofit the Roci's air filters to hand dog hair?
Will be interesting to see what happens to Duarte and his force like powers, will Elvi be able to make progress with him?
What role with Teresa Duarte play? Why do I see some chance meeting of her and Naomi's son at some point (just a gut feeling)?
Overall I really enjoyed it, I was prepared to be completely gutted after the death of Amos, but bringing him back the way they have could make for some interesting angles to be pursued in the last novel. 2020 is apparently the time frame for the ninth and final book. Can't wait.
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Bobbie going man to man against the Magnetar class ship was a completely badass way for her character to go out.
I was also a little skeptical about the plan to take out the Laconian orbital shipyards. Necessary but also such a crushing loss of tech for humanity going forward.
The resistance shipping and assembling 3 Donnager class battleships piece by piece? Freaking beltalowdahs, is there anything they can't do?
Alex and Naomi getting the Roci into space again =
Terminator Amos raises so many questions, why does he appear to be more human than the kids in the pen in Laconia after being "saved" by the repair droids? His conversation in the epilogue with Holden, will he be able to act as a new type of Miller for the last book in their war against the Goths? Will he be able to retrofit the Roci's air filters to hand dog hair?
Will be interesting to see what happens to Duarte and his force like powers, will Elvi be able to make progress with him?
What role with Teresa Duarte play? Why do I see some chance meeting of her and Naomi's son at some point (just a gut feeling)?
Overall I really enjoyed it, I was prepared to be completely gutted after the death of Amos, but bringing him back the way they have could make for some interesting angles to be pursued in the last novel. 2020 is apparently the time frame for the ninth and final book. Can't wait.
Spoiler!
Amos is going to be the new Miller for sure. He will have access to all the knowledge of the Gate builders, but isn't bound by the protomolecule directives and retains most of his personality. I'm sure he's going to have a role to play when they Elvi visits the diamond.
With the final book coming up, really wondering how the authors will choose to end this. Will they choose to end this as a story about the failings of humans caused by our hubris? Or will they choose to end this in a more traditional positive way? Next book can't come soon enough.
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I've now watched this show. It's mostly good, I can't call it great. I certainly wouldn't put it on part with the first two seasons of BSG, as I was led to believe... I'd actually be more inclined to compare it to Babylon 5, given the political tensions and machinations involved, especially in the first two seasons. But there are some rather silly and convenient things, even ignoring the usual "wow, our protagonists really do seem to wind up getting entangled in every major event in the solar system, don't they" issue. Acting is generally... not great. Elizabeth Mitchell is fine at playing the same character she usually does, and Shohreh Aghdashloo is good. Pretty much everyone else... not exactly bad, just sort of the usual syfy fare. Writing is fine, if a bit melodramatic at times.
I dunno, I guess I'm invested enough that I'll keep watching it as long as they keep making it. Where they left season 3 is pretty intriguing, lots of possibilities.
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I've now watched this show. It's mostly good, I can't call it great. I certainly wouldn't put it on part with the first two seasons of BSG, as I was led to believe... I'd actually be more inclined to compare it to Babylon 5, given the political tensions and machinations involved, especially in the first two seasons. But there are some rather silly and convenient things, even ignoring the usual "wow, our protagonists really do seem to wind up getting entangled in every major event in the solar system, don't they" issue. Acting is generally... not great. Elizabeth Mitchell is fine at playing the same character she usually does, and Shohreh Aghdashloo is good. Pretty much everyone else... not exactly bad, just sort of the usual syfy fare. Writing is fine, if a bit melodramatic at times.
I dunno, I guess I'm invested enough that I'll keep watching it as long as they keep making it. Where they left season 3 is pretty intriguing, lots of possibilities.
Sort of my thoughts as well. It's an entertaining enough show but the acting and writing really pulls you out at times.
The Holden actor almost ruins the books for me. The other actors I can buy, when I read the books I can imagine them, but Holden tears me right out of the story.
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The Holden actor almost ruins the books for me. The other actors I can buy, when I read the books I can imagine them, but Holden tears me right out of the story.
It’s the squinty eyes. Doing the same acting squint that Dane DeHaan did in Valarian.
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