New reproductive technologies radically alter the concept and function of family. Like many speculative fictional novels, new technologies influence not only how we relate to people on other planets, but also how we relate to each other.
#The expanse books by james corey wikipedia series#
Like any epic fiction, the narrative is pretty complex, exponentially more so in this series due to the imagined technologies, life forms from other planets, and the changing laws of physics. The crew members – James Holden, Naomi Nagada, Alex Kamal, and Amos Burton – form the central cast around which the series is based. Four crew members survive and broadcast their suspicions of Mars’ involvement to the universe, just before they are picked up by a Mars military vessel. The Canterbury, an Ice freighter which harvests ice from asteroids and brings it to the Belt to use for water, is blown up by ships which appear to be Martian military vessels. Tensions between the residents of the outer planets “the Belters” and the inner planets sparks the initial conflict of the book. Corey explores the biological and social implications of the cultures which would emerge from low gravity living. The Expanse is set in the future, in a time when speculative new technologies, combined with our continued environmental degradation of Earth, have lead mankind to explore habitation on Mars and the outer planet moons and asteroid belt. (Unfortunately I have to wait another year for the final book 9.)
Sorry for the lag in my book reviews but I went on a binge, reading all 8 books of the Expanse series.
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