Table of Contents
1 Cover
6 Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List
8 Foreword
10 First Orbit: FROM EARTH TO THE STARS 1 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse Chiaroscuro A New, Infinite (And Wonderful?) Universe The Abyss Looks Back (Nietzsche Warned You …) Is It Large Out Here? Or Is It Me? Freedom and the Sublime in The Expanse Dynamically Sublime Howl at the Moon If You Want To 2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future Does Humanity Have a Future? The Value of Humanity Life and Biodiversity Hedging Our Bets Against Extinction Risk Future Humans What Really Matters 3 Humanity’s Dilemma before Abaddon’s Gate Colonizing the System Colonizing at the Speed of Light Unimaginable Opportunities Actual Threats to Our Existence 4 Hate Expectations The Male is By Nature More Expert at Leading and Other Complete Drivel: Aristotle Tries to Find his Ass With Two Hands and a Fakós Me and My Husband and My Byronic Hero are Taking Our Giant Helmet and Going Home Paint Me Like One of Your Manic Pixie Dream Girls Who’s the Nasty One Now? Fear Mongering and the Fragile Male Ego Conclusion: Whatever I Goddamn Like
11 Second Orbit: IS IT THE PROTOMOLECULE, OR JUST HUMAN NATURE? 5 The Banality of Evil How Can Evil Be Banal? A Moral Monster? Making Sense of Fanaticism Lack of Imagination Anyone Can Do It! (Or Can They?) Should Mao Be Pardoned? 6 Amos Meets Nietzsche People of Three Kinds “Good and Bad” or “Good and Evil” Ressentiment Will to Power Amos Is No Superman 7 Is Amos Evil? “I am that guy” What Happened to Amos? Is Amos Really “That” Guy? The Upsides of Amos 8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World It’s Anarchy How Philosophy Helps Us Discover Our Values When to Fight? How to Fight? What Promotes Moral Behavior? 9 Terrorism and the Churn Killing and Making Free People Like Us A Crossroads in Human History
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Third Orbit: REMEMBER THE CANT!
10 The Inners Must Die
Colonization
The Wretched of the Belt
The Limits of Peace
A Cleansing Violence
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