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THE EXPANSE AND PHILOSOPHY
SO FAR OUT INTO THE DARKNESS
Edited by
Jeffery L. Nicholas
This edition first published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Nicholas, Jeffery, 1969‐ editor.
Title: The Expanse and philosophy : so far out into the darkness / edited by Jeffery L. Nicholas.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021042942 (print) | LCCN 2021042943 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119755609 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119755616 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119755623 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Expanse (Television program) | Corey, James S. A. Expanse. | Philosophy on television. | Philosophy in literature.
Classification: LCC PN1992.77.E97 E97 2022 (print) | LCC PN1992.77.E97 (ebook) | DDC 791.45/72–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042942 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042943
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Cover Image: © Expanding Universe Productions
To all those involved in The Expanse world. Thank you!
Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List
Matthew D. Atkinson is an Associate Professor in the History and Political Science Department at Long Beach City College. He teaches classes on democratic theory, social movements, and global studies. The Expanse inspired him to find ways of incorporating science fiction into the global studies curriculum—a development that has met with a great deal of student enthusiasm.
Lisa Wenger Bro is a Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University who specializes in postmodernism and speculative fiction. Prioritizing, she’s managed to frame and hang an “Evolution of the Cylon” poster in her office but not her actual degree. She’s written and published a lot of essays and articles with semicolons in the titles and also co‐edited Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman. Her current work explores class, capitalism, and biopolitics in science fiction. She’s also exactly like Amos—she likes peaches, doesn’t mind long hikes through nature, and is never quite sure which way’s right.
Eric Chelstrom is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. His research is primarily in social philosophy and phenomenology. A specific focus in recent years in his research is on the relationship between forms of collective agency as it relates to issues of oppression. He is the author of Social Phenomenology. Like Holden, he finds joy in a quality cup