#The expanse bobbie series

This is an article about the tendency to change someone’s features to suit a cultural ideal in order to make that character more marketable or relatable to a wider audience. I want to stop here for a moment and make it very clear that this is not an article about body shaming. “A hundred kilos” is two hundred twenty pounds. 10)įor those of you unfamiliar with the metric system, “just over two meters” would put Bobbie over six feet. As a marine, she trained all the time. ( Caliban’s War by James S.A. None of it was fat, but her muscles seemed to get bigger every time she even walked through a weight room. At a bit over two meters tall, she was only slightly above the average height for a Martian male, but thanks in part to her Polynesian ancestry, she weighed in at over a hundred kilos at one g.

#The expanse bobbie series

Bobbie was not the right shape to fit into one of the standard suits, and the Marines made her jump through a series of flaming hoops every time she requisitioned a new custom one. But the truth was that was easier said than done. This sort of thing is just going to happen more and more often, you know.” While Hillman crouched in front of her, working on her suit… “Yep,” said Hillman, already pulling it out. “Hilly, you have any extra hydraulic fluid in your pack?” “Hey, guys, hold up a minute,” Bobbie said. Orbit Booksīobbie first appears in Caliban’s War, book two of The Expanse series: The Expanse is a phenomenal series in both of its incarnations. Great plot.