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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List x
Acknowledgements xv
Foreword xvii
Introduction xix
Jeffery L. Nicholas
First Orbit: From Earth to the Stars 1
1 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse 3
Michael J. O’Neill
2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future 13
Margarida Hermida
3 Humanity’s Dilemma before Abaddon’s Gate 25
Leonard Kahn
4 Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in The Expanse 33
S. W. Sondheimer
Second Orbit: Is It the Protomolecule, or Just Human Nature? 45
5 The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Jules-Pierre Mao 47
R. S. Leiby
6 Amos Meets Nietzsche 57
Pankaj Singh
7 Is Amos Evil? 65
Diana Sofronieva
8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World 74
Matthew D. Atkinson and Darin DeWitt
9 Terrorism and the Churn 84
Trip McCrossin
Third Orbit: Remember the Cant! 91
10 The Inners Must Die: Marco Inaros and the Righteousness of Anti-Colonial Violence 93
Sid Simpson
11 Being Beltalowda: Patriotism and Nationalism in The Expanse 102
Caleb McGee Husmann and Elizabeth Kusko
12 Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life 111
Lisa Wenger Bro
13 “Can’t We Try Something Else?” Is James Holden a Hero? 125
Jeffery L. Nicholas
Fourth Orbit: They Still Dream 133
14 “We had a garden and we paved it”: The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene 135
Diletta De Cristofaro
15 We Can Be Gods: Remorseless Logic or Shared Humanity 145
Max Gemeinhardt
16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic’s Vision for Mars 151
James S. J. Schwartz
Fifth Orbit: Tilting at Windmills 161
17 How to Be a Hero: Hannah Arendt and Naomi Nagata on Making and Doing Politics 163
Tiago Cerqueira Lazier
18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata: Intersectionality and the Impossible Choices of Resistance 171
Guilel Treiber
19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse 179
Claire Field and Stefano Lo Re
Sixth Orbit: Riding the Roci 187
20 The Long Dark Night of The Hat: The Metaphysical Fate of Detective Josephus Miller and His Headwear 189
S. W. Sondheimer
21 Between Worlds: The Multiplicitous Subjectivity of Naomi Nagata 195
Eric Chelstrom
22 Language Games in The Expanse: If a Lion Could Showxa, We Would Not Pochuye Him 203
Andrew Magrath
Appendix: The Expanse Episodes List 215
Index 217
