/lit/ - Literature

You could try this. It's mostly set/dwells on people living between Ceres and Saturn, and the way they've adapted their culture and biology to living so far from Earth. However, your mileage may vary depending on your tolerance for certain tropes which pop-up in the last-third and are out of tone with the first four-hundred pages. The sequels are okay too, but with less focus and more 'monster of the week' vibe about them.

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>almost proper hard sci-fi
>good characters
>well developed setting
>technology believable
>66% of the way into the book
>suddenly
>alien vomit zombies

FUCKING WHY?

Let's keep this based on the book, not the TV show "the expanse" on syfy...

http://expanse.wikia.com/wiki/The_Expanse_Wiki

I've read a decent amount of Sci-Fi in my life. But I was really, really happy with the way this series is turning out. I'm on book 2 "Caliban's War". While the premise of colonies, and colonial based war, and disease isn't anything new to Sci-fi, I really loved the way this book is handling it's spin on it. Check the link above for a good synopsis and summary. It's a very very gritty, realistic book that involves racial tensions between Earth,Mars and the "Belters". The inequality, predjudice and what not just make the book more than mere Sci-Fi to me. The author(s) nail the concept of to me, what it would be like if humanity did expand. We would project our racial separatism to the people who go off world, as being "Them vs Us" type mentality

Even the characters I get a real sense of humanity for. So much so, in book two, the character Prax's daughter goes missing, and there's like two chapters devoted to him looking for her. For a second I forgot I was reading a scifi book, and was just so engrossed for the story of this dad searching for his little girl, it was amazingly well written..

Anyway, is anyone else reading this series? If you like sci-fi with lots of character dev. And a nice balance of military, marine space combat..I can not recommend this one highly enough. First book in the series is Leviathan Wakes.

Hey everyone.

Just finished Neuromancer, I gotta say, that is one book that should be read with a physical copy, NOT listened to on audio. A bit harder to follow, and this is coming from someone who's read the entire Game of Thrones books by audiobook.

Anyway, not sure if you guys know this, but the SyFy show "The Expanse" is based off a series of Sci Fi books, starting with pic related. Levithan wakes. I just started it last night, and it seems like some gud shit. Has anyone else read this series?