Politics of The Expanse

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey (the pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) imagine how human beings would colonize our solar system, with settlements on Mars, the asteroid belt and the moons beyond. But Earth looses control of its vast empire, and the colonies break into warring factions. The books are international best-sellers and the TV adaptation on the Syfy network has been critically acclaimed. Ty Franck, Daniel Abraham and one of the show's producers Mark Fergus discuss how The Expanse was developed, and why its underlying message feels more urgent than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds.
0:03.5	I show what how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.
0:06.9	I'm Eric Mollinsky.
0:09.2	One of the most requested topics I get for this podcast is the Expans.
0:14.2	Now in case you don't know, the Expans is a series of 7 novels.
0:17.7	The 7th book just actually came out this month.
0:20.2	It is also a show on the Sci-Fi network and the 3rd season should be out in early 2018.
0:27.1	And one of the reasons why he's taking me this long to get to the Expans is because
0:31.5	that was a lot of catching up to do and I'm still not done with the books yet.
0:35.8	They're very long books but they're really good.
0:38.6	Now the Expans is set around 200 years in the future.
0:41.4	Roughly the same time as the original Star Trek.
0:44.1	But I always think of it as like the anti-Star Trek because Star Trek is all about how
0:48.2	human beings will evolve beyond their primal instincts and that is not how the guys that
0:53.4	wrote the Expans novels imagine the future.
0:56.6	The thing that always sort of threw me out of the world building in Star Trek is I don't
1:00.0	understand why anyone does anything because they sort of say, well, there's no money anymore.
1:06.3	Everybody has everything that they need.
1:08.5	Everything we do, we do just to better ourselves.
1:11.3	That's fantastic as an idea but it doesn't match any humans that I know.
1:16.7	That is Ty Frank.
1:18.3	His writing partner in the books is Daniel Abraham.
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