Martin, and a bunch of other writers down in that area. He was playing it online for a couple of years, and then he moved down to New Mexico with his wife, and he fell in with Daniel Abraham, George R. He started coming up with this story with all of this material that he had come up with. It’s a role-playing game on a discussion forum. The provider looked at the cost and said, “Nope, we’re not doing that.” He trunked it and ended up turning it into a role-playing game on a play-by-post forum. He’s like, “Well, I’ve got this idea.” He started to develop some material for it and went from there, developed a pitch, and then the pitch didn’t go anywhere. she had an opportunity to create a massive multiplayer online game for a Chinese internet provider and was looking for pitches. Because it started out as a game world, right?Īndrew: Yeah, so what happened is that way back, probably about 2003 or so, Ty had been coming up with these ideas for this space epic that he wanted to play with. It was a very different type of origin story than most novels to television shows.ĭavid: Tell us a bit about that. Where did you get the idea from? And how did you go to being a television show?” As I started to dig a little bit deeper, the story got more and more interesting. I emailed them and said, “Hey, I’d like to write this long article. Corey, his two parts, Ty Frank and Daniel Abraham, and I had asked them questions over the years, and I sort of had this sense that there was a really interesting story behind it.
#TV THE EXPANSE BOOKS TV#
As the TV show had started to come up, I was getting interested in writing about how do you go from a book to a television show.
I picked up Leviathan Wakes when it was an ARC and fell in love with it.
#TV THE EXPANSE BOOKS SERIES#
Andrew, you wrote a long article about this series for called “Evolution of a Space Epic.” Tell us a bit about how this series came about.Īndrew: I’d been a fan of the books since before they came out. and Very Good Television Podcast.ĭavid: Let’s start out and talk about the first book in The Expanse series, Leviathan Wakes. She also hosts the podcasts Liz Tells Frank What Happened In. She’s the TV editor for Indiewire, and has also written for Gigaom, Attack of the Show, The New York Times, Variety, The Wrap, Nerve, and Thought Catalogue. He was nominated for a Hugo award and won a British Fantasy Award for his work on Speculative Fiction 2012: The Year’s Best Online Reviews, Essays, and Commentary.Īlso joining us today is Liz Shannon Miller. He’s the host of the Rocket Talk podcast on Tor.com and also a consulting editor with Tor.com publishing. His reviews have appeared in Clarkesworld, Kirkus, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. He’s the weekend editor of Gizmodo and io9, and he also co-edited the anthology War Stories: New Military Science Fiction. First up, we’ve got Andrew Liptak, who you may remember from our panel on the Syfy channel shows Killjoys and Dark Matter in episode 167. This may involve spoilers for the first book in the series, Leviathan Wakes, as well as for the first four episodes of the TV show, so just be aware of that. We previously interviewed Daniel back in episode 35 and Ty back in episode 113, so check those out if you missed them. Corey, which is the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank. Visit to listen to the interview or other episodes.ĭavid Barr Kirtley: Today on the show, we’ll be discussing the new Syfy channel show, The Expanse, based on the novels by James S.A. This roundtable discussion first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by David Barr Kirtley and produced by John Joseph Adams. Here a panel of geeks-Andrew Liptak (who contributes to Lightspeed’s book review column), Justin Landon of Tor.com, and Liz Shannon Miller of Indiewire-share their thoughts on The Expanse. The show is based on the space opera series by James S.A. The Syfy channel debuted their new show, The Expanse, at the end of November. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
0 kommentar(er)
