The Expanse (Amazon) [** Spoilers **]

Yeah I guess actually the sixth and "final" season isn't final in the sense that the writers are apparently not looking to wrap up the story.

It will be really frustrating if it ends up, as a show, going nowhere.

It wouldn't work. Think about it in the context of the timeline of what has been screened of the story so far. They know relatively nothing about the protomolecule still and are unable to harness it. In reality it would take years to reverse engineer the technology which is the reason for the massive time gap between the books.

In response to your spoilered thoughts:

Every time this damn thread pops up in my feed I think someone is going to say that S6 is on the way.

This just appeared on my list of suggestions from Amazon.

The blurb from the Amazon page:

Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey

The Expanse and Philosophy investigates the philosophical universe of the critically acclaimed television show and Hugo Award-winning series of novels. Original essays by a diverse international panel of experts illuminate how essential philosophical concepts relate to the meticulously crafted world of The Expanse, engaging with topics such as transhumanism, belief, culture, environmental ethics, identity, colonialism, diaspora, racism, reality, and rhetoric.

Conceiving a near-future solar system colonized by humanity, The Expanse provokes a multitude of moral, ethical, and philosophical queries: Are Martians, Outer Planets inhabitants, and Earthers different races? Is Marco Inaros a terrorist? Can people who look and sound different, like Earthers and Belters, ever peacefully co-exist? Should science be subject to moral rules? Who is sovereign in space? What is the relationship between human progress and aggression? The Expanse and Philosophy helps you answer these questions—and many more.

• Covers the first six novels in The Expanse series and five seasons of the television adaptation
• Addresses the philosophical issues that emerge from socio-economics and geopolitics of Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance
• Offers fresh perspectives on the themes, characters, and storylines of The Expanse
• Explores the connections between The Expanse and thinkers such as Aristotle, Kant, Locke, Hannah Arendt, Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Nietzsche

Available for pre-order and will be released on October 25th.

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Picked it up earlier in the week. I had preordered from Amazon, but the day it was supposed to be delivered it got pushed out by a few weeks, but a bookshop near me had it in stock so I was in luck!

Yeah, my Amazon pre-order was pushed out by a month. Unfortunately my luck finding a copy mightn't be yours, I live in Austria! I'd go into Hodges Figgis, that would be the first spot in Dublin I'd check.

I'm desperately waiting for Christmas to install it on my eBook reader. The kids are all getting physical books this year so the Nook will be mine. 😁

I got up early to watch it, great to have it back. 😁

"Strange Dogs" is the title of the novella set on Laconia and the opening sequence of the episode was like a little Easter egg for it.

Just as a note, there's a bonus short episode if you go into Xray on Amazon Prime. I couldn't find it on my TV, but works on my laptop

The old team seem to be doing a Star Trek game

I think it's the first time, I saw an interview with the showrunners saying that Amazon wanted to try it this season. Apparently there are shorts with the first five episodes. Each one focuses on a different character

I prefer it this way. I don't have many shows I like and no will power so I need to drag a few months fun out of the good ones

Wheel of time did the same.

I think the opening sequence featuring Laconia might be a hint that there are plans for the later material to be brought to the screen. The "Strange Dogs" novella is set during the 30 year gap between the "Babylon's Ashes" and "Persepolis Rising" books. Given that the season will end with the conclusion of the main story line from "Babylon's Ashes", there was little point to featuring Laconia unless of course it's to lead the TV series fans to the source material but that seems a bit contived.

I like week by week

I will wait until all six are done, subscribe to Prime for a month and binge. Sad that this could be the end, even though the story's not over - not just in terms of the show v books, but the producers themselves said they'd shop around so you have to assume the show does not "end" entirely satisfactorily despite them making out this is the finale season as opposed to simply the last season.

Would be great if they gave it at least a soft ending so that those of us who aren't book readers aren't left hanging at the end of it all.