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113timesasecond · 13 days
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An hour later, his blood warm with drink, he heated up a bowl of real rice and fake beans—yeast and fungus could mimic anything if you had enough whiskey first—opened the door of his hole, and ate dinner looking out at the traffic gently curving by. [...] The blue ceiling glowed in its reflected light, unchanging, static, reassuring. A sparrow fluttered down the tunnel, hovering in a way that Havelock assured him they couldn't on Earth. Miller threw it a fake bean.
—Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
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spacecimen · 6 months
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”On one hand, there is the very real threat of mutual annihilation. On the other, the stars.”
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ztmachine · 6 months
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Me: Hmmm I should really read the rest of the dune or expanse books, people tell me they're really good. Anyways
*goes back to re-reading the stormlight archive for the 3rd time*
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christophernolan · 6 months
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It’s interesting reading The Expanse after I’ve watched the show. I can see how faithful the adaptation was to the first book at least. Also Holden in the show was kinda not my type but in the book he such an interesting character and I’m super in love with Miller and I didn’t even care about him in the show.
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echoofawind · 4 months
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This audiobook is 21 hours long. It took 9 hrs to just to get interesting.
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vote YES if you have finished the entire book.
vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.
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alagaisia · 1 year
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I love when I read a book *after* seeing an adaptation and it gives me a new appreciation for the adaptation. Season one of The Expanse follows the plot and major scenes of Leviathan Wakes remarkably closely, and the characters are exactly the same. I’m replaying scenes from the show in my mind. Conversations that weren’t in the show still read in the actors’ voices. I swear I recognized some dialogue. And the changes I did notice (such as where Miller finds Julie Mao in the end, and how the dead man’s switch comes in) made complete sense in smoothing over the transition from page to screen. Fuck Amazon and all that, but the writers and showrunnners of that show should be lauded for their attention and dedication to the source material.
I’m interested to see how that holds up in the rest of the series. I know that the actor playing Alex Kamal left the show for reasons unrelated to the character’s original arc, and I think I know that the books go on longer than the show, so I have a feeling eventually the two will split, but I’m hoping to meet a few more favorite characters before that happens :)
(other books I've read this year)
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satanicspeaks · 3 months
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What I want to know about The Expanse world is how is data storage being managed? If there is that many people across our solar system (and beyond) then where is all the data being stored and how?
This also applies to other sci-fi media. Currently we are so used to places hosting data that it’s become an after thought (until AO3 goes down or someone remembers they don’t actually own a copy of the e-book they bought on kindle).
In The Expanse there are terminals, similar to phones but can do a lot more, where anyone can log in to a terminal with their identifier and then it has all their messages and things they need. So instead of the phone number system we have it’s more like logging in to a universal Facebook. That raises some security issues but not the point here.
By making it a Facebook type system then the person also doesn’t own their own data. It’s not solely stored on their device. There are tech in that world where data is only stored on one thing, like our USB’s, but that’s not the standard because there’s a network. For there to be a network there must be a place to connect it all to.
So, given what happens in book 6 (no spoilers here dw) I reckon it’s stored in the belt, somewhere in vacuum/space, on Luna, or on several of the moons. Reasoning is that reduces a lot of natural heat data servers would have to deal with, reduces natural environment problems. It would absolutely be several locations, sole locations are a serious liability, and also with how much emphasis the series puts on light delay data/communications from one to another that would cause bigger issues.
As I type this I just realised: each station/location would need to have some level of a local copy. There were times that characters quickly set up a new terminal within a minute, and functionally waiting long periods is just bad business.
This likely isn’t something the author considered for the series, because killing or taking data servers hostage would be a way to fuck everyone over. Hence strengthening to the idea that data storage is in *a lot* of locations, making it hard to do a full take over.
There is also some programming elements that make me ‘hmmm’, especially season 1 of the Tv series where a sole person is trying to crack complicated encryption on a time crunch. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hobby programmer at most, my area is UX, so I don’t know if that’s truely effective. But from how over stated the complexity is it would make more sense to have several people on it (buuut of course story wise it’s cooler if one person can crack the really complicated Martian encryption).
I do wish the TV series showed Naomi as a programmer too, not just electrical and systems engineer. Maybe it’ll pop up later, I can see why they don’t with wanting a more visual way to show what she’s doing, but it feels like it understates her skills and what she can actually do.
Ty for reading my ramble if you made it this far. There’s practically no fandom for this series so mutuals can just second hand enjoy this
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ashes-in-a-jar · 4 months
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I started reading leviathan wakes and oh my god the found family part in it is so precious I'm crying
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blerdinthemidwest · 1 year
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I didn't cry the ENTIRE book but this part had me sobbing. As much as Jim Holden can be annoying, he's a good man who cares about keeping humanity human.
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You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.
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113timesasecond · 25 days
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"I'm afraid," she said.
"Don't be," he said.
"I don't know what's going to happen," she said.
"No one ever does. And, look, you don't have to do this alone," he said.
"I can feel something in the back of my mind. It wants something I don't understand. It's so big."
Reflexively, he kissed the back of her hand. There was an ache starting deep in his belly. A sense of illness. A moment's nausea. The first pangs of his transformation into Eros.
"Don't worry," he said. "We're gonna be fine."
--Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
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spacecimen · 7 months
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My name is James Holden.
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bookbarf · 19 hours
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So about a month ago I read the divide by JS Dewes and then with only one book between them - I read Leviathan wakes by James a Corey now I didn’t mean to but I read them so close together that they kind of melted into one book in my mind that I had to sit down and differentiate them on paper before I read the exiled fleet (second in the divide series) I know there’s a huge expanse fandom but like is the second expanse book good? The blurb makes it sound real fucking boring and dry even though I did enjoy the first one…
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my-arm-is-thor · 1 year
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Alex is describing a square. Cuz a square is all right. This is going to be my new saying
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I wanna sleep bc I have to get up for work in 2 and a half hours, but to sleep I need to put either music or an audiobook on quietly… and well music is giving me the big sad rn, so audiobook right? But I can’t decide which 😭
Foundation? Wool? Leviathan Wakes? Mythos? The Sword of Shannara? Too many options 😵‍💫
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