(Part 3) Top products from r/TheExpanse

Hi. This is not what you are requesting, as it is non-fiction, but The Expanse books sparked my curiosity into it. Reading the other replies, you have read a lot of great work in science fiction, too. Astronaut Scott Kelly tells all in his book Endurance about his year in space. He’s the closest thing to a belter we have. Lol. It’s pretty cool, frightening, and a remarkable true story. It’s not for everyone, off the genre topic, but thought I’d recommend it.

> and designate Pluto a minor planetoid.

I've heard stories about him being not so nice too, but I'm pretty sure you can't hang that solely on him. It was voted on at an IAU conference and while NDT may have been a public face, he certainly wasn't at fault. The one person who (humorously) takes credit is Mike Brown who actually discovered the first Kuiper belt object larger than Pluto which sort of forced the vote. He has a really interesting short book about the whole thing if you want to read it.

> He's a famous scientist, not a saint.

Yea, he's a science communicator or a science popularize.

That would be amazing, something like a Haynes manual for the Roci would work great.

For an epic series consider Dune by Frank Herbert especially as we approach the new Dune movie in 2020.

For well written political-military sci-fi with a good grounding in realistic physics try the Honorverse by David Weber. First book is On Basilisk Station

For exceptional military sci-fi Hammer's Slammers by David Drake. They are a series of short stories that can stand on their own but when read together form a cohesive story arc.

For a one-off story that deals with some major issues of technology and how it can affect our near future try the bio-punk story The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Be warned however there are some really... uncomfortable parts that are NSFW to put it mildly. Easy to skip but wanted to be up front about that.

As a personal guilty pleasure I will also recommend the military sci-fi series the Legacy of the Aldanata by John Ringo. It is not "hard sci-fi" but I really like Ringo and the core quadrilogy is so much fun. Start with A Hymn Before Battle

Vultures- the final Miriam Black book by Chuck Wendig. My Expanse tie-in is that I discovered his books thanks to a Twitter post by Daniel Abraham. :)

This is basically the plot to the book Delta-V, which I just picked up and am enjoying so far. I think it'd appeal to the hard sci-fi folks who appreciate The Expanse.

Seriously though you can watch it here if you have amazon prime. If you don't have Prime but you trust a random stranger on the internet with your address you can PM me and I'll mail you a copy of the DVDs that you can borrow until you're done with season 4.

Thanks for perservering.It was redirecting me to Audible.co.uk,I was clearing the pop up and it sent me to Audible.co.uk anyway.When i clicked it properly I did indeed get to the page and release date you mention.

This is what i was seeing before :http://www.audible.co.uk/search/ref=a_mn_mt_ano_tseft__galileo?advsearchKeywords=babylon%27s+ashes&sprefixRefmarker=nb_sb_ss_i_2_4&sprefix=Baby

And amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1478965371/ref=s9_simh_gw_g14_i1_r?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=17DBDESRRH8XY3R06GH4&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=867551787&pf_rd_i=desktop

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy can easily fill that void and might answer a lot of questions you didn't even know you had about what terraforming Mars would be like.

Frederick Pohl's Gateway/Heechee Series has some of the same gritty feel of The Expanse.

This is exactly what I was thinking.

This is a good resource for a realistic life on Mars. Even recommended by a few people on Mission Control from NASA.

Have you read The Commonwealth Saga. Pandora's Star is the first in the 2 part series that takes place in the "near" future after a technological revolution. Its a Space Opera in it's own right even the more common means of travel is through wormholes (kind of like Stargate). The first few hundred pages dragged on but after reaching the middle of the book i'm not able to put it down.

http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Star-The-Commonwealth-Saga/dp/0345479211

Here's the Amazon product page for the brownie pan..

$35 USD hrm

Maybe one brownie tray per person?

Edit: To make it fully legit the $13 spatula probably needs to be bought also

For anyone wondering what these books are actually about, here are their Amazon pages. I've read neither, so I can't speak for them myself.

Great North Road

Fallen Dragon

It is worth remembering that Abraham also wrote the Long Price Quartet. This is right in his wheelhouse.

https://www.amazon.com/Expanse-Roleplaying-Game-Steve-Kenson/dp/1934547972/

https://www.amazon.com/Expanse-Game-Masters-Kit/dp/1934547980/

Or you can get Leviathan Wakes (the book) for about $7.
And since season 1 doesn't cover all of Leviathan Wakes, you'll read some of the story that will be in season 2

www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0316129089/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1_olp?ie=UTF8&sr=8-1&keywords=leviathan+wakes

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VNPNBND/

It's plastic but it's something.

Walter Jon Williams' Dread Empire's Fall series.


Start with The Praxis.


https://www.amazon.com/Praxis-Dread-Empires-Fall-ebook/dp/B000UOJTRQ/

A substantial portion of this book covers a battle between two fleets approaching each other at some insane speed. It also goes into the difficulty of even finding a ship in space if it's not emitting anything (very much silent running/submarine warfare-esque).