#James s.a Corey

[satanicspeaks]

What I want to know about The Expanse world is how is data storage being managed? If there is that many people across our solar system (and beyond) then where is all the data being stored and how?

This also applies to other sci-fi media. Currently we are so used to places hosting data that it’s become an after thought (until AO3 goes down or someone remembers they don’t actually own a copy of the e-book they bought on kindle).

In The Expanse there are terminals, similar to phones but can do a lot more, where anyone can log in to a terminal with their identifier and then it has all their messages and things they need. So instead of the phone number system we have it’s more like logging in to a universal Facebook. That raises some security issues but not the point here.

By making it a Facebook type system then the person also doesn’t own their own data. It’s not solely stored on their device. There are tech in that world where data is only stored on one thing, like our USB’s, but that’s not the standard because there’s a network. For there to be a network there must be a place to connect it all to.

So, given what happens in book 6 (no spoilers here dw) I reckon it’s stored in the belt, somewhere in vacuum/space, on Luna, or on several of the moons. Reasoning is that reduces a lot of natural heat data servers would have to deal with, reduces natural environment problems. It would absolutely be several locations, sole locations are a serious liability, and also with how much emphasis the series puts on light delay data/communications from one to another that would cause bigger issues.

As I type this I just realised: each station/location would need to have some level of a local copy. There were times that characters quickly set up a new terminal within a minute, and functionally waiting long periods is just bad business.

This likely isn’t something the author considered for the series, because killing or taking data servers hostage would be a way to fuck everyone over. Hence strengthening to the idea that data storage is in *a lot* of locations, making it hard to do a full take over.

There is also some programming elements that make me ‘hmmm’, especially season 1 of the Tv series where a sole person is trying to crack complicated encryption on a time crunch. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hobby programmer at most, my area is UX, so I don’t know if that’s truely effective. But from how over stated the complexity is it would make more sense to have several people on it (buuut of course story wise it’s cooler if one person can crack the really complicated Martian encryption).

I do wish the TV series showed Naomi as a programmer too, not just electrical and systems engineer. Maybe it’ll pop up later, I can see why they don’t with wanting a more visual way to show what she’s doing, but it feels like it understates her skills and what she can actually do.

Ty for reading my ramble if you made it this far. There’s practically no fandom for this series so mutuals can just second hand enjoy this

[beingjellybeans]

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[itsmayurremember]

The Expanse: TV Show vs The Book

Last year, I finished ‘Leviathan Falls’, the final book of ‘Expanse’ saga by James S.A Corey. I was introduced to the franchise by the TV adaptation which has completed sixth and possibly the last season. After finishing the book series, I felt there are few differences between the show and the books. Before I proceed, a word of caution. This piece won’t be about which is better. You should…

[ninety6tears]

Rocinante crew moments from Nemesis Games that are chef's kiss. (Sometimes the found family IS real.)

[anexperimentallife]

"Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it's a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it's a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it's a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

--James S. A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

[wanderrealms]

I think Bobbie Draper and Chrisjen Avasarala are my favorite characters in Caliban's War by James S.A Corey.

Naomi and Amos are cool too. Holden needs to be kept away from anything that can transmit data.

Bobbie and Avasarala point of view chapters are just really fun to read.

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

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[lazzerot]

The Expanse has Christian lesbian moms and one of them is being used by her ¿childhood? politician friend - who is Earth's (evil, US-American-coded government) mouthpiece for the main evil Earth guy™ - to write a speech justifying the war of Earth's government.

(At least in the show, I'm not at that part in the books yet)

I don't understand why it's not more popular with the tumblr crowd... actually writing all that down to explain it to people who aren't familiar with the franchise just made me realize why: it's the politics, I think tumblr doesn't like politics. It's a shame, because it's such a good series and I'll create the fanart for it when my depression and workload lets me do it.

[gcantread]

new release goofin’ 🌻 | JOMP book photo challenge | 13 August 2024

[literary-illuminati]

Mercy of Gods has occasional interludes from the perspective of an alien infiltration-construct that basically ate and replaced the nervous system of a human in a way that leaves the boundaries of identity kind of porous and fuzzy.

This is mostly played for various strains of horror and rumination, but did just include the very funny note that the host considers a bit of a silver lining that she only cheated on her boyfriend and made out with the cute research assistant after she basically got possessed and then told to run actnormal.exe. Gets to enjoy it and entirely iron-clad excuse to not feel guilty!

[mikimeiko]

Books I read in 2024

Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey (2011)

[satanicspeaks]

Been seeing reviews of The Expanse books where people comment on how slow the books are, that it’s a slog to get to the plot arcs. And while yeah definitely it takes it time, i personally enjoy it.

Each book introduces new POV and slowly puts plot pieces together. I’m used to slow burns and books like Gideon the Ninth where things slow ramp up until it all falls apart in quick succession. The POV’s are a great choice too with how the books utilise them, it’s always the most significant characters and I haven’t felt like a POV was adding nothing to the books (except for in book 1 when I didn’t understand the format so ignored all that didn’t interest me)

Book spoilers from here for the books Abaddon’s Gate & Nemesis Games

Abaddon’s Gate is one of my favourite’s for how it does this. We meet Clarissa who makes sense in the context she’s in, she links back to her sister nicely, her family is known and by slowly exploring who she is we don’t feel the POV swaps in the main arc are sudden or odd.

Same with Anna, we get to know her, how she feels, how she acts in situations before you drop the mother of all crises on her.

Holden is well known at this point and his POV gives us familiarity, we love him as a character and know the crew he’s in so we still hold that emotional connection to them as the other POV’s develop. Because it’s hard to care about a character that’s new (this is why I have some major criticisms of Fourth Wing as a book, it wants us to care about how protagonist is feeling about a character we met two paragraphs ago, it feels empty and shallow)

By having a slow set up it also allows for a shit tone of points to use in the plot climaxes. Like oh that thing that was mentioned in chapter 2? Yeah it’s important. Those important things are masked by an info dump of sci-fi and each characters own interests so we as the reader don’t see what’s important straight away. But we know by now that this is the format the books will take.

That’s also why Nemsis Games and its deviation from what we expect with POV is important. Oh? We got used to new POVs and the crew being all together? Well this time we’ll only give you the crew’s POV! They’re familiar but this time you now fundamentally know how they think, removing Holden’s bias.

I’m once again info dumping about the book series, don’t worry I’m not stopping. I’m up to Babylon’s Ashes, so three books to go. Five seasons of the TV series to go. Let’s see if I can do this in less than two months 🫡

[mobiusstripper]

"If the thing that calls itself Aliana Tanaka came apart here and never swirled back together, I wouldn't even notice that I was missing."

[anexperimentallife]

I try to remain as optimistic as I can, but I totally feel this quotation at times:

"My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven't been cynical enough."

--Chrisjen Avasarala in Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, book 6), by James S. A. Corey

[wanderrealms]

I'm disappointed in you James S.A. Corey. Everyone knows surströmming is much worse than lutefisk (which has taste and texture of eggs whites).

That means politics is the third most evil thing after surströmming and lutefisk.

[downbadfordraper]