However its been a few years, so the story has meshed into one large story for me. Cibola Burn was rough ride and possibly the weakest of them all, but I still enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next installment in a few months.

Science Fiction should feel like this IMO. Hopeful of the future, where we finally get off this rock. I know I wrote a spoiler free review here at the zone a while back. I stand by my praise of the series. This is the Sci-fi I missed out on, because I was too young or not born yet when the truly great writers (Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke) were writing. I read them all around the turn of the millennium. I enjoyed their writing, yet at the same time it felt dated and old. The Expanse gave me back the great stories without the embarrasingly dated tech and ideals. James SA Corey and John Scalzi are my goto authors for good scifi these days. Scalzi for his humor, Corey for their devotion to getting the physics as accurately portrayed as possible within their kickass stories.