The Expanse Series! All of the characters are extremely well written. The plot and setting are also amazing. (personally: I would watch the show and THEN read the books.)

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Second this opinion.

I watched the show and then decided to read the books. I've read the first three and all its made me realise is how good the show is.

(The books are great too!)

[–] generic_rock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Have fun reading the rest of the series! Took me about a week to proccess my feelings, when I finished the final book.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree about how good The Expanse books are, but I’m on the other side of coin about the tv series. I had a hard time getting into the series the first time I tried to watch it. I don’t think I quite what they were doing at first but now having read the first four books I started rewatching the first season and it totally clicked this time I’m tearing through the TV series this time.

[–] generic_rock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first couple episodes are kinda a slog; they give a lot of background info for the setting so it's a bit of an info-dump. The book writers did state that the tv series has their ideal setting appearance and ship design, so it made visualizing the books easy for me.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yeah and I had some problems with the concept at first. Everyone was selling it as the hard science fiction show and yet it focused the proto molecule and that’s not hard science fiction. Plus I got annoyed with them spending so much time on the float but using mag-boots but not looking like they’re still in zero G. I know you can’t shoot the show on the vomit comet but really just spend more time under thrust, I’ll be happier.