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The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky is epic!
Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series is equally good but much calmer, less action.
Other sci-fi series or books I've really enjoyed recently:
I've never bothered trying to watch the Expanse show. I've read the series. Seeing the show would be cool, but knowing that the show is only half the story? Nah.
It's the same part of me that feels tricked by Game of Thrones and Name of the Wind. Not a fan of unfinished stories.
I've read the series a few times and watched it as well.
The first season is sort of amazing and I really appreciated the adaptation. Honestly , the first several seasons were good. Definitely not as good as the books though.
The fourth season is not really worth it. Amazon bought it and pretty much just killed it.
Oh hell, I'm going to start reading them when I'm done with mine lol.
Oof, feels like such a sci-fi heartbreak show. It SOUNDS amazing, and if they could have done a faithful adaptation of the entire book series, I'd be all-in.
But...cancelling it before they even reach the halfway point of the story? Ugh.
💯 but, I do think that first season was some of the best sci fi produced and the following seasons were surprising strong until the acquisition. It's a good story.
It was like too good for modern consumption lol. I am real interested in media adaptations, so it may intersect with another of my interest.
I think you seem to have a pretty good handle on it.
To be fair, I think those last couple of books would have been real difficult from a technical point of view.
What do you think would be hard to depict on screen? To me, the passage of time would be the biggest challenge. Look at Outlander. Jamie and Claire are supposed to age 20 years before being reunited, but they still look 30 in the later seasons!
Other than that, I wouldn't actually worry. Makeup and CGI would do for most of the alien stuff involved in the story.
Oh, the age was the big hang up. I guess you're probably right though, they could probably whip something up. It is a bit harder to pull off that perspective shift though.
It isn't even a hard thing. We've had passable age makeup for longer than I've been alive. They just need to use it!
It is surprisingly good, but indeed by the 4th season it is deviating heavily from the books in prep for wrapping up.
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They also basically dont mention the void entities at all since they werent able to go in depth with the late timeline stuffThe show is worth seeing after the read. It’s unlike any other sci-fi show out there and the production is A+++. They hit a lot of the notes the book pushes and honestly it’s refreshing to see some of the changes despite it affecting the cast.
I really enjoyed the first of the Final Architecture books, and found the second enjoyable, but by the third I was starting to fatigue to the concepts and found the story to be more and more tedious to finish: something Tchaikovsky’s other works didn’t do to me.