Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List x Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvi Introduction xviii 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 0005177183.INDD 7 7/28/2021 8:07:46 PM viii CONTENTS 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 0005177183.INDD 8 7/28/2021 8:07:46 PM CONTENTS ix 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.