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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I love the ship designs, as they are the first harder sci fi ships to really hit the mainstream. The diversity got on me eventually and I dropped off. Another problem is that the further the books got from the starting point, the less interested I became in them. It's hard for me to care about former Martians using alien shipyards to build a massive empire (and I think conquer Earth?) when I came into the series wanting to see the UN grapple with a Mars that could finally rival it on a small, interplanetary scale.
I see a lot of people praising the ship designs, but I can't ever make out what I'm looking at when it comes to the ship designs.
It feels like I'm missing something.
Then again, I've always had a preference for the A-Wings, the Viper from the original 1970s Battlestar Galactica (couldn't stand the remake), and Sybil Danning's ship from Battle Beyond the Stars.
Yes, but they tend to have nice shapes spouting from the ship and looks good to me. Though I am a huge fan of the flying gun spaceship design (cough Halo cough) so it's quite nice to see some slight variations on the design.
That's not totally true. They're shapely boxes in space.