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And we get a little insight into the long term fate of humanity. We also learn more about the conflict that destroyed them. I’ll say that we do learn about the builders of the protomolecule, and it’s not as bleak a story as I was expecting. I enjoyed it, and found the ending…appropriate, if not inevitable in retrospect. I suspect this one won’t be an exception.

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The end of any long running series like this is probably always going to leave some fans disappointed. If survival meant giving up our biology or individuality, would it be worth it? And in this final episode, we’re asked to consider just how much of the human condition is necessary. But it was in the final trilogy of books where the boundaries really started to be explored. The series as a whole often asked us to consider what it means to be human. With humanity on the brink of annihilation, desperate and terrible decisions have to be made by the remaining heroes. Toward the end, it turns into an existential battle for humanity’s survival. The early parts of the book involve a lot of action and adventure. It makes getting into any details of the story difficult, at least without also going into serious spoiler territory, which I won’t do. This is the kind of series you definitely want to start at the first novel. Leviathan Falls is the ninth and final novel of the series.

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It may mean that the only way to know the full story is to read the books. There’s hope that there might be more in the franchise, maybe movies or something, but nothing definite yet. Unfortunately, wrapping the show after its sixth season is apparently going to end it before it gets into the final trilogy of books. Space shows are expensive, and as I noted on the last post, streaming services are increasingly showing a tendency for shorter series. In some ways, it’s amazing that it survived as long as it did. That show’s sixth and reportedly final season is about to come out on Amazon.

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Still, when it was adapted into a TV show, it turned out to be the most accurate space opera show that I’ve seen so far, at least in terms of plausible logistics for interplanetary space travel. While the series cares about the actual science a lot more than Star Wars, it’s never been afraid to bring in effectively magical concepts, albeit usually under the cover of Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” or at least very speculative science. Corey pen name, actually wrote a Star Wars novel, which I haven’t read.) (The authors, writing under the same James S.A. But I’ve often thought of it more as a literary version of Star Wars, something inspired by decades of prior stories in a genre. The series has often been compared to Game of Thrones, probably spurred by the fact that one of the series authors used to work for George R.R. But it was done with a more contemporary understanding of science, and with far more character development and diversity than most of that old stuff ever had. This was a series that channeled the old fashioned space opera that I’d read as a boy, mostly in books from the 1940s and 1950s. I know I’ve read all the subsequent ones as they came out. I’m pretty sure I burned through those early books in a few weeks. By then the first three books had already been out. I discovered the first book of The Expanse series, Leviathan Wakes, back in 2014.