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

[Giulio Prisco]

I didn’t like the Altered Carbon show. They transformed a great science
fiction book into third rate TV “science fiction.” This happens very often,
and I like The Expanse show also because it is reasonably close to the
books (which are very good).

On 2020. Jan 12., Sun at 21:29, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Giulio,
> Thanks. Yes, I do like altered carbon, but it has been a while.
> I should get caught up.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:08 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Easy to find on the torrent nets.
>>
>> On 2020. Jan 12., Sun at 16:41, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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