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I'm re reading JSA Corey'sThe Expanse DomA Send a noteboard - 25/02/2016 05:51:16 PM

.. after I've finished watching the TV adaptation that turned out to be one my favourite book-to-screen translation ever (very clever show runners, and the novelists working full time with the writing room).

It's a great, modern take on Space Opera, light but not stupid, and most of all, it's fun.

It's also an interesting take on dealing with a big epic with a big cast and large universe and a multi book story: the authors limit themselves to the 2 to 4 POV characters they absolutely need to tell the ongoing part of story in each novel, and aside from the central protagonist and his crew, the main cast doesn't necessarily carry from book to book. Characters come to the foreground for a while, then when the story moves on and they're no longer the focus, they just fade to the background, becoming occasional secondary characters or simply vanishing to re appear or not a few books later. Quite a few Fantasy writers with bloated stories could take a cue from Corey.

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