Resources: News Archive
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Evolution of a Space Epic: James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse
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- Andrew Liptak
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- How The Expanse evolved from inception to the present day is a fascinating, unique creation tale, one as improbable as it is exciting. Begun as a concept for an epic multiplayer video game, played as a role playing game, written up as a novel and now on the way to TV screens everywhere, the series has taken a most unconventional route from concept to publication.
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The Expanse Is the Show We’ve Been Wanting Since Battlestar Galactica
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- Lauren Davis
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- This is a show that digs into the politics of our spacefaring future, but knows it’s the characters that make science fiction shine.
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New Syfy series ‘The Expanse’ takes everyday people — including Mormons — on space adventure
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- Scott D. Pierce
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- Two centuries from now, Mormon missionaries won't just be going door to door, they'll be going from planetoid to planetoid. That's what happens in the futuristic new Syfy series "The Expanse," which includes a subplot that harks back to LDS Church history.
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Designing the Belter Accent for The Expanse
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- Eric Armstrong
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- In mid-September, my agent was approached about the possibility of me working on a new show that would require some unusual skills. The show, a science fiction series based on The Expanse series of novels by James S. A. Corey that was to shoot in Toronto that Fall/winter, would feature a “constructed language,” orThe Expanse Film Title Graphic conlang, for a portion of the cast and the producers wanted to know what I might be able to bring to the table.
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The Pilot for The Expanse Is a Tense Socio-Political Thriller Inside a Gritty Space Opera
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- Leah Schnelbach
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- The adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s novels has been described as Game of Thrones in space, and at least the pilot made good on that blurb. The pilot itself was immediately arresting, opening on a woman trapped in a zero G room in a ship. Is she a prisoner? A stowaway? A crewmember accidentally trapped?
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Australian motion design studio Breeder creates opening sequence for Syfy’s ‘The Expanse’
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- Ricki
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- Australian motion design studio Breeder has created the opening sequence for Syfy's brand-new television show The Expanse.
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Into ‘The Expanse’: What It Means to Be Human, and Why ‘Sci-Fi Ended With Ridley Scott’
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- Liz Shannon Miller
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- Syfy’s upcoming drama “The Expanse” has the potential to change the game in a major way for science fiction on television: The series, starring Thomas Jane, Shohreh Aghdashloo and an intriguing ensemble cast, takes us from a 23rd century Earth to the rising colonies of Mars and the mining communities of the outer asteroid belt.
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Into ‘The Expanse’: What Syfy’s New Sci-Fi Gamble Learned From ‘True Detective’
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- Liz Shannon Miller
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- Syfy’s upcoming drama “The Expanse” has the potential to change the game in a major way for science fiction on television: The series, starring Thomas Jane, Shohreh Aghdashloo and an intriguing ensemble cast, takes us from a 23rd century Earth to the rising colonies of Mars and the mining communities of the outer asteroid belt.
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Into ‘The Expanse’: Great Sci-Fi Doesn’t Require A Good Hat, But It Helps
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- Liz Shannon Miller
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- As of last night, “The Expanse” has officially premiered on Syfy, meaning that fans of the books written by James S.A. Corey and newcomers alike have the opportunity to discover this dense new world of political intrigue and hard sci-fi.
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Into ‘The Expanse’: How ‘Game of Thrones’ Guided The Making of ‘”Chinatown” in Space’
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- Liz Shannon Miller
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- One of the most exciting aspects of Syfy’s upcoming series “The Expanse” is the fact that the show strives to create an entirely new universe in its first few episodes; one laden with new technology, but one that uses it in an authentic way.