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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey”
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After finding the first Expanse book mildly interesting, I was badgered into reading the sequel. It isn't good. The first book made for some interesting "engineering" sci-if. What would it take to travel at excess g-force? What are the practical implications of living on a low-gravity moon? That kind of thing. But…

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ethan

@Edent hahaha. I enjoyed these books (and the TV show which did some things better and some worse) but, whew, you hit the nail dead-on. Trope-y to the max.

Corey (the two authors) does human interactions well enough and physics well (handwave the magic bits) but the proto-molecule as ongoing macguffin is frustrating. I want more of the colonial relationship between Earth and the Belt, and a lot more of the Belt gaining power over the colonizer (which is def. USA analogue).

@Edent I finished a BA recently (2021) and I overheard a student corner an astronomy professor over the Expanse - it was one of the cringy-est -dia-monologues I have witnessed.