Why I Love the Expanse

I’m in love with the Expanse. Ty Frank and the [slightly more reclusive] Daniel Abraham, writing as James SA Corey, seem to have built a media empire out of space opera, and brought back to SyFy something it’s been sorely lacking – characters blown slightly out of proportion, battles stretching from the Earth to the Belt, and – most importantly – politics.

Science fiction has always such a fruitful battleground for political conversation, but for some reason we haven’t had a lot of political...