The Telltale game (I haven't played it yet) seems to be based on Drummer from the TV show. TV Drummer is radically different from Book Drummer. Book Drummer, certainly in the first six books, is a very minor presence, as the security chief on Tycho Station. TV Drummer is a composite of several book characters.
IIRC, there's a bit of minor head cannon involving Book Drummer and "The Butcher of Anderson Station". That might be referenced in the Telltale game, since it's a prequel for TV Drummer.
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Getting rid of Twitter and Reddit has been productive. I read the Expanse (and the novella collection) as well as Project Hail Mary, and the first book of the Three Body Problem.
Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;
I think The Expanse, while an amazing series that should be read anyway, doesn’t fit the bill of “humans are more advanced than the aliens”, since the Protomolecule and everything created by the Romans are essentially in the “tech as high level magic” category. Humans can’t even understand the technology, often saying things like, the Protomolecule just changed the laws of physics.
Well, it could be that the tech tree for intersteller travel is a road not taken by humans
There’s also “Children of the Sky”, which focuses on the humans on the Tines world.
The Honor Harrington series actually has some interesting tech disparities, besides being pretty good/exciting military science fiction.
In the first book, there are Bronze-Age-ish aboriginals.
In the second book, you see several human polities. Harrington interacts with less technologically/culturally developed groups of humans, and there are frictions and opportunities coming from the more advanced polity.
Harrington’s polity generally remains the most technologically advanced group. There’s later interaction with human polities who had thought they were the top dog, in terms of military power.
Just to note, it’s a big series that gets somewhat too sprawling in the later books. The earlier books are Age of Sail (IN SPACE!!!) adventures, which transforms into a wide-ranging interstellar war driven by technology change. Weber’s analogy is sailing ships -> steam ironclads -> Dreadnaught battleships -> WW2 radar directed gunnery / aircraft carriers. Not everyone is at the same tech level.
Why does Baron, being the tallest Trump, not simply eat the other Trumps?
Given that we’re in the dumbest time line, this is actually a plausible scenario.
Constructive = one after another
I think you mean “consecutive”.
Cryptographic signatures are too hard for people to understand.
Unless you cut the word down to size and just call it “crypto”. Then everyone gets it. Like, it means stuff happens on a computer and magic money appears.
But how do you keep the ice cream cake from melting over that time?
This is a state-level case, so it would be Georgia’s criminal code that would apply, not Federal
Anakin: Self-driving cars will orbit the street’s so there will always be one nearby if someone requests a ride.
Padme: But they’ll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?
Anakin:
Padme: But they’ll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?!
The Expanse is an interesting case of book-to-TV adaptation. The authors for the books were fairly involved with the TV series, and, in some ways, it’s their retelling of the main story with some changes that streamlined things for the visual medium. The main things have to do with the consolidation of several characters (e.g., most prominently TV Drummer is an amalgam of three or four different people from the books), and the early introduction of some other ones (e.g., Avasarala and Draper) (though, on the flip side, because of the way actors contracts work, these characters were given make-work arcs in some seasons because they don’t appear during the corresponding books). These changes generally made sense and were pretty well done.
Anyway, the books are excellent. The TV series is excellent.
Note that the last three books were not adapted for TV, though there was some set up that will eventually lead into those books. One logistical trick is that the last three take places some 30 years after the first six, so there’s a matter of the actors’ ages. But the TV series ended very well. You want more, but the main plot lines dominating the first six books were tied up.
Where would you put, say, the Culture, where biological beings are perfectly happy with machines running the place, while the Minds engage in some light imperialism on the side, when, uh, special circumstances called for it, in the Minds’ view. We can call it the “Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints” level.
I’ve been working through The Expanse books, and have just started Leviathan Falls.
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