[ExI] The Expanse is science fiction like television has never seen

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 15:40:12 UTC 2020


Since I only watch golf and tennis on TV I was interested to learn that the
books I have been reading, Corey, are now TV shows.  So I went to my TV and
searched and it showed no episodes available.  So how to I watch it?  If I
can, can I watch it from the beginning?   bill w

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 6:47 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> In the Expanse, do they have any uploading, computational binding neural
> ponytails, bodies and avatars that don't need spacesuits of any kind, and
> can be easily replaced and re-uploaded when destroyed....
> I hate it when they do lots of hard things, like faster than light travel,
> or any significant space travel into the "expanse", whole body
> teleportation,  and on and on, yet they can't yet do easy, higher priority
> things like overcoming plain old dumb animal bodies that age and die at the
> drop of a hat. Or nobody interested in recovering dead ancestors and
> memories I.e. history.
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 12:47 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I LOVE The Expanse! I am watching the show and reading the books in
>> parallel. Of course the books are better than the show, but the show is
>> reasonably close (and much closer than usual) to the books. This is the
>> first science fiction show that I really like.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 2:59 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> "What I love about this show is that it's “realistic” science fiction.
>>> There's no faster-than-light travel, no crazy artificial gravity or dopey
>>> aliens. It's just people like us, in an actually possible world. Honestly,
>>> it's great. So I was excited to get a chance to talk to the showrunner of *The
>>> Expanse*, Naren Shankar—who, I have to mention, has a PhD in applied
>>> physics."
>>>
>>> Any big Expanse fans on the list?  :  )
>>>
>>> https://www.wired.com/story/the-expanse-is-sci-fi-like-tv-has-never-seen/
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