Star Wars: Andor

Star Wars: Andor special issue

Red Futures is an online Marxist science fiction magazine. It publishes new fiction and writing on science fiction, including the recently edited collection on The Expanse. This call for submissions aims to discuss Star Wars: Andor from multiple angles and approaches, bringing together a collection that reflects on both the

Prompt 6 Strikes

Abandoned

by Orion Ussner Kidder. When the money meter in Charlene's helmet started ticking down instead of stuttering upwards, she was pretty sure she knew what had happened, but then she felt it, and she was absolutely certain: the sensation of a massive ship - a ship the size of a

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Red Futures Mag: The Expanse Expanded launch and screening of episode 1

Come and join us for the launch of the edited collection The Expanse Expanded! Featuring a screening of episode one, discussions, and drinks Red Futures Mag: The Expanse Expanded launch and screening of episode 1Come and join us for the launch of the edited collection The Expanse Expanded! Featuring a

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Work, Horror, and The Expanse

Jamie Woodcock In the first episode of The Expanse, we are introduced to the universe through scrolling text. We are told of a solar system in crisis. We meet Julie Mao and an unexplained horror lurking in the reactor core. The camera moves to Ceres station, boiling over with tension.

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The Future Society of The Expanse

Marcin Stolarz Are we doomed to be the same? ‘The protomolecule changed everything except for what it didn’t.’ This is the main takeaway from The Expanse - a SyFy/Amazon Prime Video space opera that takes place in about 200 years from the present day. The series, books, and

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The Heart of The Expanse: Discovering Humanity in the Void

John Roselli If I were to list my favourite shows of all time, The Expanse would sit solidly in the top three, alongside Brooklyn 99 and The Mandalorian. Few stories are able to captivate me on the level that the story of James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante

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The Expanse On the Cyclical Nature of History

Grigor (John) Velkovsky Preface This piece is written with the understanding that the reader has familiarity with the world of The Expanse. It is written from the perspective of the TV show (or up to the book Babylon's Ashes). Given the limitations of space, certain themes are explored slightly less

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The Politics of the Anthropocene: Environment and Society in The Expanse

Davide Mana With its rich tapestry of political intrigue and scientific speculation, its vast scope and its large cast of characters, The Expanse, written by James S.A. Corey, is generally recognized as one of the most popular and thought-provoking works of science-fiction published in the 21st century. The TV

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“We should have brought a poetry grad student”: Higher education and organised labour in The Expanse

Heather Clitheroe and Mark A. McCutcheon In memory of Sarah Mann (1985-2023), radical builder of a better future after work we succumbed headlong in effusive rooms to the science-fiction tales of democracy and to their songs —Dionne Brand44 The Expanse extrapolates a postcolonial future of interplanetary capitalist extractivism and exoplanetary

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The Expanse or: How Holden Kept Worrying and Learned to Embrace Division

Horst Trenkwill-Eiser Unity and Division At the end of the 20th century humanity finally entered the “End of History”. The Soviet Union collapsed and with it the (seemingly) bipolar post-war world order, leaving the USA as the sole global superpower. The space opened up by this collapse had to be

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Heroism in The Expanse

Mary B Smith The gritty sci-fi series The Expanse provides many opportunities to explore the question, “What is a hero?” I was initially introduced to the story through the TV series. Unfortunately, the series ended prior to the books’ ending, so I waded into the last three novels: Persepolis Rising,

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Abraxas' Precipice roundtable: The Expanse RPG Actual Play chat for Red Futures Mag

Josh Simons hosted the cast of Abraxas’ Precipice, John Bultena, Donna Prior, Scott Mitchell, and Maria Moore as they reflected on Storytelling within The Expanse. The introduction to the panel is transcribed here. It has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. You can watch the full discussion here on

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Expanse Fandom: Beyond the Material Plane

John Bultena Attending SiliCon in 2022, I was privy to meeting numerous fans of The Expanse, seeing as several actors from the show along with authors and producers were present. In meeting these fans, I noticed they had a variety of outfits and makeup. These various cosplays featured items such

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Neck Tattoos, Melting Glaciers, and Blue Goo: The Aesthetics of The Expanse

Lauren Bender Utilitarian spaceships that account for gravity’s pull in every facet of their design. Characters from three factions, each with their own form of dress. The neon-blue organic, crystalline horror of the alien lifeform called the protomolecule. From the outset, The Expanse took the world created by Daniel

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Introduction to The Expanse Expanded

The Expanse was published as a series of nine books written by James S. A. Corey, a joint pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank. It is set in a science fiction future in which humanity has colonised much of the solar system, with the development of distinct cultures

Prompt 6 Strikes

Call for submission: Strikes

We’re launching our next open prompt for submissions to Red Futures! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the previous prompts here. For our next prompt, we are issuing an open call for submissions on the theme of "Strikes." We want to think about

Prompt 5 Cuisine

Meals in Space

by Jamie Woodcock. A small tray moved past. It has a series of indented sections and ridges. Small pre-packaged items are slotted into the respective parts. Each can only fit in its correct place. It is a simple puzzle, repeated with each tray that comes along. As the contents were

Prompt 4 Relationships

Save yourself for Zon

By Chris Pang. “It’s not you,” she said, stirring the slowly decaying paper straw in her iced mocha with extra chocolate. “It’s just…” “Just what?” In the corner of my vision I fought against the wave of notifications threatening to turn my gaze away. If this was a

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The Expanse special issue

The Expanse was published as a series of nine books written by James S. A. Corey, a joint pen name of Daniel Abrahams and Ty Frank. It is set in a science fiction future in which humanity has colonised much of the solar system, with the development of distinct cultures

End in Fire

End in Fire, Book I Zenith, Chapter 3

By Matthew James Seidel. BOOK I: Zenith Previous Section: Chapter 2, Next section: (coming soon), Contents page. Chapter 3 It was known officially as the Mardo Academy Seconder Support Program. Eleven-year-old Doug Doobin called it mandatory volunteer work. “It’s bad enough making us do stuff on the weekend. But

Prompt 5 Cuisine

Call for submission: Cuisine

We’re launching our next open prompt for submissions to Red Futures! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the prompts New Planet, Utopia, Automation, and Relationships. For our next prompt, we are issuing an open call for submissions on the theme of "Cuisine." We

Prompt 4 Relationships

The Third L

by Thomas Strange. I was once sat in a restaurant when my date looked up from her curried goat and said to me “I don’t believe in love. It’s a concept created by the bourgeoisie to trick people into monogamy.” This was an interesting shift in conversation. She

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Sooner Than Tomorrow

by Melike Özbay. Marja watches her reflection through the window. It's 6 p.m. She is standing in the space formerly reserved for drivers in this new generation ofautomated unmanned trams. It is impossible for her to even fall because of the slack. In these trams, which flow about 15

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Voting at Lightspeed

by Jamie Woodcock. Go down to the docks, through the door to the left of the logistics office, along two corridors, right at the admin office, up a flight of stairs, through the back of the canteen kitchen, down two floors, then at the end of a maintenance tunnel there

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Scrap Heap

by Emilie Reed. When we crossed over into an asteroid shadow, which bent lines of radio communication, leaving us unsure if our regular pings met any destination or just spoke into the void, the excursion began to have the feeling of a dream. Kathe, who was the only other person