Karavansara

East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai


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Expanding ‘The Expanse’

I discovered The Expanse during a book haul, back when Leviathan Wakes was all that existed of the series. After reading the books, I went on to be a fan of the TV show, and I like The Expanse RPG a lot.
The Expanse universe ticks all my boxes as a reader of science fiction, as a writer of science fiction, and as a player of science fiction games.

Now, the British online magazine Red Futures, is about to publish a special issue called The Expanse Expanded, edited by Jamie Woodcock, that will hit the shelves in the first week of July, but can be pre-ordered from the magazine’s website.

The Expanse Expanded is a collection of essays exploring the many different facets of the Expanse universe – and its real-world fandom – from a progressive and leftist perspective.
The volume includes a piece by me, called The Politics of the Anthropocene: Environment and Society in The Expanse, in which I finally am able to put to good use both my PhD in environmental sciences and my misspent youth as a reader and writer of science fiction.


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Trying a different approach

I’m trying something different for my next story, and I thought I’d tell you about it because… ah, because as usual, doing these things in public forces me to go through with them, can’t make any excuse and waste my time watching Youtube videos and stuff.

So, I am about to write a fantasy story set in a world without gods, in which magic is devastatingly dangerous, and in which life conditions are harsh.
Really harsh.
Blunder-and-you’re-dead kind of harsh.

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