#Drummer the expanse books series#
#Drummer the expanse books tv#

I think that should have been better spaced out. I find that frustrating, even as I enjoy the political human stuff. We learned of the eaters destroying the protomolecue species in book 3, and four books later we've pretty much had no forward movement on that. The first few had a solid mix of both, but the past few books have pretty much completely neglected the alien mystery which was so prominent at the start. I dislike the move away from the more exploratory alien story of the first few books to the straight out war stories of the past three. 7 books in and the formula is showing and I'm ready to see plot progression.

#Drummer the expanse books series#

I do find that the series has struggled a bit for me by being so episodic. Not a bad thing, all the books are good, but not at the top with Leviathan Wakes, Abaddon's Gate, and Nemesis Games for me. Still need time to think where I'd rank it, but towards the lower end along with Babylon's Ashes I think. Honestly the lack of accuracy re: gibberellins in sci-fi / space opera has been a tragedy of the genre and we should all be collectively ashamed that it's gone on for so long unchecked. In the final chapter (52: Naomi) there is finally payoff after all this buildup, when we get some poetic imagery of anemophily on Freehold. Some lazy imagery plant violence remains (“like an arrow shot into a tree”, “cut the rot out of the tree”, …), which will probably forever haunt this genre. Clearly, Space Opera is still not ready for some explicit descriptions of insect pollination – half a generation after a lesbian kiss on Deep Space 9. Pollination is mentioned, but only with Victorian embarrassment. My theory is that the Trade Federation does have protomolecule access, and has used it to construct plant-based superwarriors in the void cities, to finally take on Laconia. Extremely intriguing.Ĭhapter 26 pays some more attention to the forgotten voices of Medina, when we see a park with trees. Maybe it can be rationalised because Drummer refers to the trees as “experimental”. This is a huge blunder in an otherwise well-researched series. The description seems to disregard the effects of various gravity schemes on plant physiology – hormone production under coriolis, in particular for auxins, ethylene, gibberellins, and cytokinins.

#Drummer the expanse books tv#

For the TV series they gave the excellent Jared Harris pretty much all the story lines and character speeches from a plethora of individually unimportant minor characters, to give the OPA a central voice the audience could more easily relate to, and not incidentally a central Belter accent that everyone else had to try to copy, rather than the myriad accents in the books.Mixed bag. Two good chapters, but a lot of filler.Ĭhapter 23 sees Drummer in the arboretum of People’s Home. However for some nameholders, it is a possibility That word is derived from the Dutch 'tromme' and was not used in England until the16th century, several centuries after the usual introduction of surnames. … We do not think that the name however spelt was ever occupational or even a nickname for a drummer. The meaning of the village name is obscure but it is probably from the pre 7th century Olde English 'drum' meaning a ridge. … the name is locational from a place called Drummer, near Chadderton, in Lancashire. The Surname Database claims it originated as a place name, not an occupation. In the series, like they did with Avasarala, they brought the character into the timeline much earlier & (probably, though I cannot remember precisely) made her a bit of a compound character, like Anderson Dawes*, to save having a hundred tiny characters you'd never remember. She was a bit of an incidental character in the books, first appearing in book 5 she didn't get a first name until book 7. I don't think it's ever mentioned, in the series or the books. However I've read all the books several times. Note, I haven't seen season 5 yet - saving it up to box-set.