If wasn’t for last season’s low budget/poor directing I’d say Expanse was a solid 10/10, but yeah, last season was the sole season I’ve watched just once, compared to season 3 that I’ve watched at least 60 times (the most perfect space show season ever imho).
70% of season 5 screen time on Naomi drama in a room and Amos walking on the snow was either poor directing or a budget saving choice imho.
Don’t get me wrong, love the show and I was expecting a lot of this season, maybe I’m the problem, but comparing to past seasons, season five is by far the worst one this show ever had.
My girlfriend has that Mars series on her shelf, I’ve been contemplating it. How’s the pacing? Is it slow or gripping? I’ve read some good hard sci-fi, and others that needed about 3/4ths of the book edited out because it was so boring.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any that uses this as a major plot point, but a couple of my favorites touch on it a bit. A good book to start with in my opinion would be Velocity Weapon by Megan O'Keefe. I really enjoyed that one. My favorite (but admittedly a bit of a weird) series is the Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, and another good book would be Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds.
Like the others who commented I also enjoyed first few books of the expanse series, but I just couldn't get through the whole thing.
Robert Heinlein. He wrote starship troopers but many more of his books are about space travel and are fascinating in their perspective of space and time. Starship troopers, stranger in a strange land and time enough for love are all really good. The last one is about a man born on earth that due to genetics ages incredibly slow and his journey from the end of WW2 to him colonizing planets and his experience in such a long journey and it's effect on his still mortal mind.
Fur sure! And you should also check out the HiRise website for the Mars orbiter if you're here dorkin over this stuff. You can download enormous 3D high def pictures nasa took with the Mars orbiter.
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u/sabdotzed Feb 19 '21
Would love a recommendation if you have any.