The Expanse season 6 (released in December, and concluding Jan. 14) was a season that mostly ignored the protomolecule. Here we explain what the alien mission was in the end, and what it means.
By contrast George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, which the show is based on, has no rough end date. It’s been about three decades since the first A Song of Fire book was published. All eight of The Expanse books have been published in less than a decade.
But anyone who likes Game of Thrones is likely to enjoy The Expanse, and not just because one of the Expanse authors worked as an assistant to Martin. At the core, both series are stories about power and ambition wrapped in larger tales about personal and societal strife. In Game of Thrones, magic – the defining mystical aspect of most fantasy stories – is hard. It’s hard to attain and hard to use.