Thanks Bezos. You're horrible on many counts, but good looking out for saving The Expanse.

Season 4 Now available on Amazon Prime Video, after Seasons 1 - 3 were on SyFy.

If you've never seen the series, this is a good place to hop on, as this planet colonizing saga is kind of a standalone even in the books.

Production values are up (and they were good on SyFy), but this is gorgeous to look at. If you liked GoT (before they bammed it up), this is similar in structure as it tells multiple, complex and interwoven stories. The primary factions are Earthers, Martians and Belters. Earth runs the OG solar system. Mars is a colony that has been around for years and rivals Earth in military power, and the Belt refers to the people who have lived for generations in near zero gee, doing the grunt work of maintaining a nascent extra-planetary civilization, via mining in the asteroid belt on on the moons of planets.

In the end of Season 3, a long dormant bit of ancient alien biological technology (referred to as the protomolecule) awakens and builds a gate to multiple (1300 or so) other solar systems.

So humankind gets a boost, upending hundreds of years of politics and planning. (Martians live underground with a single minded focus on terraforming the next available planet into something habitable and prosperous, but now there are hundreds of habitable planets within reach, where none of that is necessary.

very well done both in writing and translation to the small screen. some cool characters, too.


peace & blessings,

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