Possibly alien species comes back into play. PR & ? & ? - Suspect it will be a trilogy to close the series out since its 9 books, Martian colony comes back through the gate, development of the colony worlds continues at breakneck pace as humanity spreads out enormously. Culminates in the Sol system stabilising for now, but with its role as the sole established home of humanity at an end and mass migration to the colony worlds to follow and a rival power rising with jumped up tech level in the splinter Martian colony. NG & BA - In the face of their impending death, factions from Mars and the Belt decide to use each other - the Belt to take Earth with them, the Martians as a smoke screen to establish their own new colony following a major mutiny. Culminates in the realisation that Mars is a dead planet orbiting and the Belt is on very short borrowed time, which triggers the next part of the story. LW & CW - The discovery and activation of the protomolecule and the risks of it being used as a weapon directly whether as bioweapon or protomolecule monsters, culminates in the revelation of what the purpose of the protomolecule actually is and the opening of the gates.ĪG & CB - With the wormhole to the slow zone active its about humanity gaining access to the gate network and entering a new age of exploration and expansion through the thousands of systems now available. Re: BA feeling like the conclusion to NG rather than a self contained story, I'm pretty sure I've seen Dan and Ty state that it's comprised of a series of duologies of a sort, however the ones so far have been much more self contained for each pair. I enjoyed those other POV's but in the end, I think the story probably could have been tightened up by giving us fewer. Prax's viewpoint was fun and I did enjoy the confession they didn't understand as well, but I'm not sure what value that had in the story. And that the rogue Martians were helping them out. What was the point of the viewpoints from Medina? Didn't we get at least two different ones? And the entire point was to show us that the rail guns were in place and dangerous. Many of the POV's here really didn't feel necessary. Other books managed to expand that out to 4 or so pretty effectively. Leviathan Wakes told an entire solar system spanning story with exactly two POV's. In some ways, it almost seems like they have managed to succumb to the dreaded POV bloat that we saw GRRM falling victim to as the series has progressed. Yes, it was one of those POV's that I wondered why it was there. My excuse is that I was eager to get back to the other characters.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |