I also wasn’t happy that most of the episodes were pretty darn short compared to previous seasons. It was an OK ending but I really hope someone takes pity on this yet-again abandoned series, picks it up, and gives us the final 3 books (either as 3 seasons or 3 really good movies). It started off mediocre but did get better. Honestly, I wasn’t wowed by this final season. However, I was a little concerned from the beginning when it was announced the final season would be only 6 episodes. ![]() I have loved the book series (read them all) and have really enjoyed the TV series. This week also saw the series finale to The Expanse. Just finished it and it was very engaging, tho I feel the TV show did a better job with the few female characters and indigenous characters as well. Of course, I then had to go on to listen to The Terror by Dan Simmons. Season 2 is a little slower so far, but still worthy (tho I haven’t quite finished it). The Terror was one of the British ships trying to chart a Northwest Passage. I sped through season 1, realizing it’s based on a Dan Simmons book by the same name. There’s a little supernatural stuff happening in each season. Season 1 is the Arctic, 1840s season 2 is beginning of WW2 US Japanese concentration camps. Each season is set in a different historical time period and location. I made the delightful mistake of watching The Terror, a dramatic historical fiction series on Hulu. We’ve got a great team this year that worked hard to get them up & running & I couldn’t have done it without them. Histories & Mysteries Audiobook Challenge for those that love books set in the past or fast-action espionage or a cozy mystery, etc. M by Herman Koch.įor this week, we finally have the yearly audiobook challenges up! Fant-SciFi Audiobook Challenge for science fiction and fantasy lovers. The next upcoming discussion later in the month is Dear Mr. We’ll be starting Stormbreaker (Alex Rider #1) by Anthony Horowitz soon. The next upcoming discussion later in the month is The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan. Will be starting discussion of MirrorWorld by Jeremy Robinson soon. There’s always awesome stuff happening over at these audiobook clubs. What follows is a wonderful pastiche of space battles, alien horror, and heroic deeds.Welcome to Dab of Darkness Weekly Amusements! Here’s my attempt to give a shout out to things that have made my week a little bit better. This plot point ties together the Rocinante crew with a noir-like police detective named Joe Miller, a Belter on Ceres Station pursuing a missing girl. Dropped into the middle of all this is an alien substance, or proto-molecule, of unknown origins. At the center of it all are the main characters, the multinational crew of a gunship called the Rocinante: James Holden from Earth, Naomi Nagata from the Belt, Amos Burton from Earth, and Alex Kamal, a former Martian Navy pilot. The details and politics can get quite complex but they make sense and are easy to follow. A cold war exists between the Earth’s United Nations and two other factions: Mars and the OPA, or Outer Planets Alliance (basically anyone who is not from Earth or Mars.) that mostly inhabit the asteroid belt and moons. While Earth, itself, is unified under the banner of the United Nations, the age old squabbles have pursued humans into space. ![]() The opening premise of The Expanse is quite simple: humankind has populated the Sol system and reached the limits of its ability to expand beyond it. Corey is the pen name used by co-authors Daniel Abraham and TY Franck and they have created an exciting, intelligent, scary and, most of all fun adventure set in a quickly expanding universe. Corey called The Expanse, Leviathan Wakes, appeared in a very crowded field. In 2011, the first novel in a new science fiction series by James S.A. Corey are some of the best SciFi literature in a long time.
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