Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Orbit First From Earth to the Stars -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Humanity's Dilemma before Abaddon's Gate -- Colonizing the System -- Colonizing at the Speed of Light -- Unimaginable Opportunities -- Actual Threats to Our Existence -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in The Expanse -- 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 -- Notes -- Orbit Second Is It the Protomolecule, or Just Human Nature? -- Chapter 5 The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Jules-Pierre Mao -- 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? -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Amos Meets Nietzsche -- People of Three Kinds -- "Good and Bad" or "Good and Evil" -- Ressentiment -- Will to Power -- Amos Is No Superman -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Is Amos Evil?.

"I am that guy" -- What Happened to Amos? -- Is Amos Really "That" Guy? -- The Upsides of Amos -- Notes -- Chapter 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? -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Terrorism and the Churn -- Killing and Making Free -- People Like Us -- A Crossroads in Human History -- Notes -- Orbit Third Remember the Cant! -- Chapter 10 The Inners Must Die: Marco Inaros and the Righteousness of Anti-Colonial Violence -- Colonization -- The Wretched of the Belt -- The Limits of Peace -- A Cleansing Violence -- A More Human Future -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Being Beltalowda: Patriotism and Nationalism in The Expanse -- Patriotism and Nationalism According to Orwell -- Drummer the Patriot, Marco the Nationalist -- Offensive Versus Defensive Attitudes -- Obsession -- Indifference to Reality -- Against Love of Nation -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life -- "Every Breath You Take" -- "Seek and Destroy" -- "I Fought the Law" -- More Inhuman than Human -- "Sunday, Bloody vunday" -- "Where Eagles Dare" -- "3's and 7's" -- "Personal Jesus" -- "I Want to Conquer the World" -- Notes -- Chapter 13 "Can't We Try Something Else?" Is James Holden a Hero? -- Filling Our Ears with Wax and Our Brains with Electromagnetic Waves -- No Nature, No Nurture -- Of Mother Born -- Tilting at Windmills -- Notes -- Orbit Fourth They Still Dream -- Chapter 14 "We had a garden and we paved it"The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene -- The Anthropocene -- The Cascade -- The Anthropocentrism of the Anthropocene -- The Issue with Wanting to "Turn a lifeless rock into a garden" -- "We're all in this together." "That is a story" -- "Earthers, Martians-they see us as their possessions, animals".

"Doing nothing is just as bad as doing the wrong thing" -- Notes -- Chapter 15 We Can Be Gods: Remorseless Logic or Shared Humanity -- "I wonder what that rain tastes like?" -- "If we master it, we can apply it" -- Detecting Stealth Ships -- ". . . hardly a rounding error" -- "What happens to us now?" -- Note -- Chapter 16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic's Vision for Mars -- Revolutionary Revelations -- Nothing New in Orbit of the Sun -- Philosophy on the Martian Frontier -- It's Life in the Solar System, Jim, But Not as We Know It -- Notes -- Orbit Fifth Tilting at Windmills -- Chapter 17 How to Be a Hero: Hannah Arendt and Naomi Nagata on Making and Doing Politics -- Escaping the Monster of Ganymede -- Waddling Between Making and Doing Politics -- Be Mindful Not to Trip Over Your Own Foot -- Somewhere Beyond Inaros and Holden -- The Burden of the End of the World -- Notes -- Chapter 18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata: Intersectionality and the Impossible Choices of Resistance -- Intersectionality and Betrayal -- Belter Lives Matter? -- Knuckles and the Augustín Gamarra -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse -- Epistemic Value vs. Moral Value: Evil Scientists -- Aesthetic Value vs. Moral Value: Mad Scientists, Awestruck Reverends -- Epistemic Value vs. Prudential Value: Intrepid Scientists -- Conflicts Between Values -- Risky Tradeoffs -- Orbit Sixth Riding the Roci -- Chapter 20 The Long Dark Night of The Hat: The Metaphysical Fate of Detective Josephus Miller and His Headwear -- Hemlock and Haberdashery: Plato and Socrates -- Fervor and Fedoras: Aristotle -- Spiritual Guts: Aquinas -- The Grudge Match: Philosophy vs. The Protomolecule -- The Investigator Must, Therefore, Relinquish the Hat -- Chapter 21 Between Worlds: The Multiplicitous Subjectivity of Naomi Nagata -- Self and World.

Worlds and World Travel -- Between Worlds and Borderlands -- One and Multitudes -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Language Games in The Expanse: If a Lion Could Showxa, We Would Not Pochuye Him -- Use-Mention Distinction -- Wittgenstein -- The Picture Book Model of Language -- The Language Game Model of Language -- The Language Games the Solar System Plays -- On the Other Side of the Ring: A Difficult Consequence -- Notes -- Appendix:The Expanse Episodes List -- Season 1 -- Season 2 -- Season 3 -- Season 4 -- Season 5 -- Index -- EULA.