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September 15, 2025 124 mins

Hello everyone!!


We finalize another series! James S. A. Corey's The Expanse! Returning for the last three novels, Persepolis Rising, Tiamat's Wrath, and Leviathan Falls.


Discussing how these books represent fascism and cannot conceive of any other kind of enemy, we also reexamine the series as a whole. Pointing out its merits in materialism and political relationships... up to the point where it slips up, falling back into usual liberalism that cannot break out from its original chains of dreamlessness and end of history.


Still, an important read, and an excellent one, without a doubt. So join us as we wrap it up, for now.


Enjoy!



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Intro Credits: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Credits: Leve Palestina, Spartacus


Bibliographical Bonus:

BANKER, Bryan. “‘The Modality in Which Class is Lived’: Literalizing Race and Class in The Expanse.” In: The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 38. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH: Tübingen, 2019. pp. 85-103.

BELLAMY, Brent Ryan; O’Brien, Sean. “Solar Accumulation: The Worlds-Systems Theory of The Expanse.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 3, 2018, pp. 515–29. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.45.3.0515.

FLEISCHHACK, Maria. “Against all Odds: Kinship and Collective Action in The Expanse.” In: Kinship and Collective Action: in Literature and Culture v. 6. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH: Tübingen, 2020. pp. 229-249.

PERCOCO, Juan Ignacio; LABIANO, Virginia. “Memories of Future Empire: The Productive Effects of Imperial Imaginaries in Science Fiction – An Analysis of The Expanse”. Contexto Internacional, vol. 46, no. 3, Sep/Dec 2024. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.20244603e20230058

ROYSTON, Edward. “Enclosing, Opening, and Redefining Modern Space in The Expanse.” In: American Science Fiction Television and Space: Productions and (Re)configurations (1987-2021). Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2023.

SADRAI, Edward; DANDO, Michael; KISHIMOTO, Kyoko; BARTON, Matt; COGDILL, Sharon. “Welwala at the Borders: Language, Space, and Power in The Expanse.” In: American Science Fiction Television and Space: Productions and (Re)configurations (1987-2021). Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2023.

SCODARI, Christine. “Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places: Anti-Essentialism and the Science Fiction Television Series The Expanse”. The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 4, Aug 2022. https://doi-org.ez67.periodicos.capes.gov.br/10.1111/jpcu.13156



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