I just finished book 6 of the expanse. I live this series so much! I love great hard magic systems which this is, and the author is a bit Frederick Backman esk with how well his writing gets me to feel the emotions and moments of the characters.

I've tried to watch the TV show and quit after the first season. I was just so confused. Once I finish the books later this year I'm gonna watch the series to the end of it.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was really confused with the hard magic thing. I thought it might be a fantasy series unconnected with the sci fi show.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's a writing thing. Any system (magic, technical, science, etc.) that goes beyond what a typical person can do in our reality. Hard magic is a system with rules and consequences that can't be broken. Soft magic doesn't have rules or implies rules or breaks.

An example is Star Trek before JJ is hard magic. JJ turned it into soft magic by breaking all the rules because it was cool...?