Series
The Expanse
Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck · 9 novels · 6 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1 collection · 2011–2022
The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels, and related novellas and short stories by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The complete series was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. It later won, following its second nomination for the same award in 2020.
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Reading order
The order events happen in the world.
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
The novels run in one sequence, and the short pieces published alongside them sit where their events fall — three pieces set before the series opens, interludes after the novels they follow, and a final tale after the last book.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Expanse at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s15
- 2020s3
Shape
9 novels · 6 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1 collection
2 authors
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguespacefar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 82% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book17 of 18 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Churndarkest · calmest
- Abaddon's Gatebrightest
- Strange Dogsmost intense