The Expanse

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The Expanse is a science fiction series of novels written by James S. A. Corey, the pen name for a collaboration between Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

Currently, The Expanse consists of eight main novels and seven shorter works (two prequel short stories, one prequel novella, one interquel short story and three interquel novellas). One more novel is planned^[1], as well as two more novellas. All indications are that the full novel series will be nine books.^[2][3]

A television series based on the books, also named The Expanse, is in production and started airing on the Syfy channel in December 2015 ^[4][5][6].

A digital comic book prequel miniseries The Expanse Origins was published in 2017.

Books

Publication order is generally regarded as the best order to read the series.

• The Expanse #1: Leviathan Wakes (June 2, 2011)
• "The Butcher of Anderson Station": A Story of The Expanse (Oct 17, 2011)
• The Expanse #2: Caliban's War (June 26, 2012)
• Gods of Risk: An Expanse Novella (Sept 15, 2012)
• "Drive" (online short story; Nov 27, 2012)
• The Expanse #3: Abaddon's Gate (June 4, 2013)
• The Churn: An Expanse Novella (April 29, 2014)
• The Expanse #4: Cibola Burn (June 5, 2014)
• The Expanse #5: Nemesis Games (June 2, 2015)
• The Vital Abyss: An Expanse Novella (Oct 15, 2015)
• The Expanse #6: Babylon's Ashes (Dec 6, 2016)
• Strange Dogs: An Expanse Novella (July 18, 2017)
• The Expanse #7: Persepolis Rising (Dec 5, 2017)
• The Expanse #8: Tiamat's Wrath (Mar 26, 2019)
• "The Last Flight of the Cassandra" (bonus short story in The Expanse Roleplaying Game; (May 14, 2019)
• Auberon: An Expanse Novella (Nov 12, 2019)
• The Expanse #9: Leviathan Falls (2021)

An in-universe, chronological list of all works, with the main series of novels in bold:

• "Drive" (Nov 27, 2012)
• The Churn: An Expanse Novella (April 29, 2014)
• "The Butcher of Anderson Station": A Story of The Expanse (Oct 17, 2011)
• The Expanse #1: Leviathan Wakes (June 2, 2011)
• "The Last Flight of the Cassandra" (May 14, 2019)
• The Expanse #2: Caliban's War (June 26, 2012)
• Gods of Risk": An Expanse Novella (Sept 15, 2012)
• The Expanse #3: Abaddon's Gate (June 4, 2013)
• The Vital Abyss: An Expanse Novella (Oct 15, 2015)
• The Expanse #4: Cibola Burn (June 5, 2014)
• The Expanse #5: Nemesis Games (June 2, 2015)
• The Expanse #6: Babylon's Ashes (Dec 6, 2016)
• Strange Dogs: An Expanse Novella (July 18, 2017)
• The Expanse #7: Persepolis Rising (Dec 5, 2017)
• Auberon: An Expanse Novella (Nov 12, 2019)
• The Expanse #8: Tiamat's Wrath (Mar 26, 2019)
• The Expanse #9: Leviathan Falls (2021)

Book translations

Not all languages have all published books translated.

• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Czech
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Simplified Chinese
• Spanish
• Turkish

Adaptations

Television

• The Expanse (December 14th, 2015)

Comics

• The Expanse Origins (2017)

Games

• The Expanse Board Game (2017)
• The Expanse Roleplaying Game (2018)

References

See also

• International cover art

External links

• Daniel Abraham - The Expanse website
• Tiamat's Wrath Book Review