Hello everyone!!

We finalize another series! James S. A. Corey's The Expanse! Returning for the last three novels, Persepolis Rising, Tiamat's Wrath, and Leviathan Falls.

Discussing how these books represent fascism and cannot conceive of any other kind of enemy, we also reexamine the series as a whole. Pointing out its merits in materialism and political relationships... up to the point where it slips up, falling back into usual liberalism that cannot break out from its original chains of dreamlessness and end of history.

Still, an important read, and an excellent one, without a doubt. So join us as we wrap it up, for now.

Enjoy!

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Intro Credits: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Credits: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

Bibliographical Bonus:

BANKER, Bryan. “‘The Modality in Which Class is Lived’: Literalizing Race and Class in The Expanse.” In: The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 38. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH: Tübingen, 2019. pp. 85-103.

BELLAMY, Brent Ryan; O’Brien, Sean. “Solar Accumulation: The Worlds-Systems Theory of The Expanse.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 3, 2018, pp. 515–29. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.45.3.0515.

FLEISCHHACK, Maria. “Against all Odds: Kinship and Collective Action in The Expanse.” In: Kinship and Collective Action: in Literature and Culture v. 6. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH: Tübingen, 2020. pp. 229-249.

PERCOCO, Juan Ignacio; LABIANO, Virginia. “Memories of Future Empire: The Productive Effects of Imperial Imaginaries in Science Fiction – An Analysis of The Expanse”. Contexto Internacional, vol. 46, no. 3, Sep/Dec 2024. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.20244603e20230058

ROYSTON, Edward. “Enclosing, Opening, and Redefining Modern Space in The Expanse.” In: American Science Fiction Television and Space: Productions and (Re)configurations (1987-2021). Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2023.

SADRAI, Edward; DANDO, Michael; KISHIMOTO, Kyoko; BARTON, Matt; COGDILL, Sharon. “Welwala at the Borders: Language, Space, and Power in The Expanse.” In: American Science Fiction Television and Space: Productions and (Re)configurations (1987-2021). Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2023.

SCODARI, Christine. “Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places: Anti-Essentialism and the Science Fiction Television Series The Expanse”. The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 4, Aug 2022. https://doi-org.ez67.periodicos.capes.gov.br/10.1111/jpcu.13156

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Hello everyone!!

We're talking about one of 2025's biggest and best releases so far, and with our good friend André! It's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!

It's French, but we have to talk about it. Both how it creates a mechanically elaborate and successful game, and how it manages to incur in unfortunate psychological reductions and an... unfortunate bump into imperialism and colonialism. We have plenty good and plenty bad in it, so we had to talk about it, and its Frenchness.

Enjoy!

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Intro Music: La ziguezon - La Bottine Souriante ℗ Les Productions Mille-Pattes

Outro Music: Tit galop pour Mamou · The Balfa Brothers ℗ 1990 Swallow Records Music Publisher: Flat Town Music

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Hello everyone!!

Joined by good friend Jon, of Horror Vanguard, as we talk about one of the books of all time, Moby Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville!

Come along as we discover why this book is everything, how it fits into the larger body of American Literature, and how the threats and consequences of individualism are ever-present. Oh, and of course: how this is a phenomenally gay book indeed.

Enjoy!

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If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!

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Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!

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Intro Credits: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Credits: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

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