Only on book three, so far there's a Jewish inventor of the space drive, a foul mouthed but wise pajeet grandma politician with her soy husband, strong independent mongrel women, south east Asian doctor looking for his daughter, interracial lesbian pastor, oh and foolish/violent huwite men. shitskins diversity IN SPACE!
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Whoever said that is an idiot.
I picked up the first book a long, long time ago, read through it, and then promptly tossed it aside and forgot about it. The entire thing read as if it was some sort of paint-by-numbers sci-fi series with nothing really new or creative about it.
Imagine my surprise years later when normies decide to go apeshit over it in television form...
Come to think, I did the same thing with GoT - picked up the first book, read through it, then tossed it aside. Huh.
The TV series hit a specific market that was crying for new stuff. It's a poor man's Cowboy Bebop with cool SFX, the same niche that made Firefly so popular, but with a serialized thriller plotline and big space battles to keep people hooked. The string is running out though. The new family drama plot line and the one guy getting fired for sex pest accusations have delivered a one-two punch on the show's momentum.
Oh yeah and they did a backstory episode on the coolest manly character on the show, and turns out he was a child gigolo. Exactly what fans wanted to hear.
That Amos backstory was incredibly bad.
The Expanse universe is mostly cribbed from Larry Niven's Sol System from his Known Space universe.
The politics of the Belt vs "flatlanders", the issues of water, radiation and gravity to conceive and birth children. Niven even wrote about the conflicts arising between an established terrestrial economy and a developing belt economy. He put a lot of thought and writing about the asymmetrical conflict between belters in small ships (with a lot of skill) vs bigger ships with specialized weapon systems.
Niven went into rapid decline after he discovered swinging. At least his career wasn't long enough for him to get woke?
I read the ice and fire books but wish I hadn’t considering we will most longer get an ending. I know he wanted to subvert Tolkien’s tropes