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What books are you reading at the moment? (self.sciencefiction)

submitted 2 years ago by FantasticFox to c/sciencefiction

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I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived.

I haven't seen the Apple show, but maybe I'll watch it in the future when I've finished all the books (I had Shift and Dust as well).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've been working through The Expanse books, and have just started Leviathan Falls.

[–] Izzy 5 points 2 years ago

I hope we get an adaptation of the last three books someday. Some really awesome stuff happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm about halfway through Persepolis Rising. That prologue was one hell of a jolt!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you like the expanse? I’ve heard they are awesome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not the person you replied to, but I have read the series and watched the show. It's fantastic. I highly recommend both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Contrarian view here.

The Expanse the show is great. My spouse and I couldn’t believe that it was an adaptation of books that we just couldn’t get through.

We’re avid readers of science fiction and always looking for new authors and series. This is to say we read picked up Levitation Falls when it first appeared on bookstore shelves in 2011. There was no television show to scaffold us and we found the books just weren’t enough on their own.

We simply found the books just not that original or well enough written to draw us in. Both my spouse and I slogged through Leviathan Falls and DNFd the second book when they came out.

We both found them derivative of a good deal of of other work against which they didn’t add - specifically CJ Cherryh’s Company Wars written in the 80s and 90s would be at the top of that subgenre. The big central mystery seems to follow the plot arc of the Star Trek Vanguard novel series published 2005-2012.

It may be that the Expanse handled the central mystery better than Vanguard over the long run of the book series, and I suspect it did based on television version of The Expanse. I just can’t see the books as the peak of space opera that they are held up to be.

[–] ikidd 1 points 2 years ago

I finished up rereading that series a few weeks ago. Just an excellent story (and pretty faithful tv series).