Enlarge / Martian Marine Bobby Draper and her team get ready for action. (credit: Rafy/Syfy)
The Expanse—whether we’re talking about the books or the SyFy series that’s just starting its second season—is some of the best science fiction we’ve seen in years. Originally conceived as an MMO at the turn of the century, it finally appeared as a novel in 2011, written by Dan Abraham and Ty Franck (under the James SA Corey nom de plume). In December, the sixth book in the series was released, and last year it also hit our TV screens thanks to SyFy.
In fact, we’re such big fans of the space opera that we’ve chosen is as the next subject to cover in Decrypted, our culture podcast. Season 2 of The Expanse premiered this week, and to mark the occasion we lined up an interview with Messrs Abraham and Franck to dig a little deeper into the solar system they’ve created for us.
One particularly interesting aspect of the show is that the authors have a massive amount of input into the TV show. That means the story is likely headed to the same destination, but the journey doesn’t mirror the books perfectly. This was something that initially unsettled me until I learned to deal with “canon shock.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Need a podcast about space opera? Ars’ Decrypted does The Expanse