{"id":689,"date":"2015-12-02T13:29:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T13:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:47:32","slug":"speaking-of-the-expanse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/12\/02\/speaking-of-the-expanse\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of THE EXPANSE&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ogre Jenni details below, we will be hosting the world premiere of SyFy&#8217;s new EXPANSE series tomorrow at the JCC, screening the first two episodes on our <s>big<\/s> medium-sized screen.  First fifty people to attend the 4pm booksigning will get tickets for the 8:30 screening; the rest of the tix will be available on first come, first seated basis.  <\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s the latest Expanse novel that I want to talk about here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/312189_900.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>NEMESIS GAMES is just terrific.<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely one to keep in mind when filling out your Hugo ballot this year.  The first of the Expanse series, LEVIATHAN WAKES, was a Hugo nominee (and loser) back in 2012.  Subsequent volumes have not made the ballot.  This one should.  I don&#8217;t know if it will be the best SF novel published in 2015 (I still have a lot of novels to read), but I can&#8217;t imagine that it won&#8217;t be one of the top five.  Fans of space opera, of classic old school SF done really well, of great can&#8217;t-put-it-down storytelling, should love this one, I&#8217;d think.  Fans of military SF as well; the Expanse books have all the excitement of the best military SF along with a lot more.  Two-headed Jimmy Corey has created a detailed, vivid, well-imagined, lived-in world, peopled it with a great cast of characters, and here welded all that to a page-turning plot that takes us places I never imagined they could go.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who live near enough, come to the JCC tomorrow and get Jimmy to sign your books and catch the EXPANSE premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Those who don&#8217;t&#8230; go out and grab NEMESIS GAMES.  It&#8217;s a hell of ride. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ogre Jenni details below, we will be hosting the world premiere of SyFy&#8217;s new EXPANSE series tomorrow at the JCC, screening the first two episodes on our big medium-sized screen. First fifty people to attend the 4pm booksigning will get tickets for the 8:30 screening; the rest of the tix will be available on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}