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| Name | Aliases | Role |
|---|---|---|
Alex Kamal Pilot of the Rocinante and former MCRN officer. A Martian with a warm, garrulous personality that masks genuine melancholy about his failed family life. One of the finest pilots in human space, with an instinctive feel for orbital mechanics and ship handling. | Protagonist | |
Amos Burton Mechanic and general muscle aboard the Rocinante. A man who grew up in the worst conditions Baltimore had to offer and emerged without the capacity for moral judgment most people take for granted - he outsources that function to people he trusts. Straightforwardly violent when necessary, and deeply loyal to those he considers his people. | Timmy | Protagonist |
James Holden Former XO of the ice freighter Canterbury who becomes captain of the salvaged Martian gunship Rocinante after witnessing the destruction of his ship. A relentless idealist with a compulsion to broadcast the truth regardless of the political consequences, Holden repeatedly finds himself at the centre of events that define the course of human history. | Jim Holden, Jim | Protagonist |
Naomi Nagata Chief engineer and executive officer of the Rocinante. A Belter of exceptional intelligence and technical skill who carries a painful past involving the Free Navy. The moral conscience of the crew, she is also one of the most capable engineers in the solar system. | Protagonist | |
Winston Duarte A high-ranking Martian military officer with a long-term strategic vision. A calculating and patient leader who positions himself to shape humanity's future beyond the Sol system. | Antagonist | |
Aliana Tanaka A colonel in the Laconian Imperial Navy and former MCRN officer. One of the most capable and dangerous soldiers in the empire, assigned to hunt down Teresa Duarte and the underground resistance. Practical, professional, and entirely willing to do whatever the mission requires. | Major | |
Bobbie Draper Martian marine gunnery sergeant who witnesses something on Ganymede that her government wants buried. One of the most physically formidable characters in the series, she is also one of its most principled - a soldier who cannot stop asking whether the orders she follows are worth following. | Roberta Draper | Major |
Camina Drummer A Belter who rises from security chief at Tycho Station to captain of her own ship to president of the Transport Union. Pragmatic, loyal, and capable of enormous violence when the situation calls for it. One of the series' most consistent moral anchors in the later books. | Major | |
Chrisjen Avasarala UN Deputy Undersecretary of Executive Administration and one of the most powerful politicians on Earth. Foul-mouthed, brilliant, and utterly clear-eyed about how power works. She plays the long game better than almost anyone in the solar system and genuinely cares about the billions of people whose lives depend on her getting it right. | Chrissie | Major |
Clarissa Mao Daughter of the magnate Jules-Pierre Mao, who frames Holden for a terrorist attack in a misguided attempt to restore her family's honour. After her imprisonment she joins the Rocinante crew, carrying significant guilt and a body modified for violence she is trying to leave behind. | Melba Koh, Peaches | Major |
Elvi Okoye A scientist who travels to Ilus as part of a Royal Charter Energy survey team and becomes caught in the colony conflict. In the later books she becomes the Laconian Empire's leading expert on the alien gates and the entity that destroyed their builders - a role that places her at the centre of the series' most fundamental questions. | Doc Okoye | Major |
Fayez Sarkis A geologist and scientist who joins the expedition to Ilus (New Terra). Good-humoured and easygoing, he provides a grounding presence among the research team studying the alien world. | Supporting | |
Paolo Cortazar A brilliant and amoral scientist formerly employed by Protogen. His expertise in protomolecule research makes him a valuable asset to whoever controls him, though his ethical boundaries are virtually nonexistent. | Cortázar | Supporting |
Santiago Singh A young Laconian naval officer appointed to a position of authority. An earnest and disciplined military man who believes in the ideals of the Laconian Empire and the order it promises to bring. | Supporting | |
Teresa Duarte Daughter of High Consul Winston Duarte, raised in the Laconian palace as the heir to an interstellar empire. Her friendship with a local boy and a strange alien-modified dog begin to pull her away from everything she has been taught to believe. | Major |
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Laconian Imperial Navy | Organisation |
| Martian Congressional Republic Navy | Organisation |
| Rocinante Crew | Organisation |
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
5 December 2017 | Publication | The seventh Expanse novel received strong reviews, with critics praising the bold structural decision to jump thirty years forward in the timeline and the narrative risks that decision enabled. The time skip allowed Corey to show the characters aged and the solar system transformed, and reviewers noted the emotional weight this gave to the novel's central conflict - the return of Laconia and the imposition of a new imperial order on a humanity that had grown accustomed to a fragile freedom. The introduction of Admiral Duarte's Laconian Empire as the dominant threat of the final trilogy was widely welcomed as a compelling escalation of the series' political concerns. Debuted strongly on the New York Times bestseller list and is generally regarded as the strongest opening volume of the final Expanse trilogy. |
2018 | Award Nominated | Locus Award SF novel category, 7th place |
1 September 2018 |
| Award Nominated |
Dragon Award SF novel category |
The seventh Expanse novel received strong reviews, with critics praising the bold structural decision to jump thirty years forward in the timeline and the narrative risks that decision enabled. The time skip allowed Corey to show the characters aged and the solar system transformed, and reviewers noted the emotional weight this gave to the novel's central conflict - the return of Laconia and the imposition of a new imperial order on a humanity that had grown accustomed to a fragile freedom. The introduction of Admiral Duarte's Laconian Empire as the dominant threat of the final trilogy was widely welcomed as a compelling escalation of the series' political concerns. Debuted strongly on the New York Times bestseller list and is generally regarded as the strongest opening volume of the final Expanse trilogy.
Locus Award
SF novel category, 7th place
Dragon Award
SF novel category