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Abraxas' Precipice roundtable: The Expanse RPG Actual Play chat for Red Futures Mag

Josh Simons hosted the cast of Abraxas’ Precipice, John Bultena, Donna Prior, Scott Mitchell, and Maria Moore as they reflected on Storytelling within The Expanse. The introduction to the panel is transcribed here. It has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. You can watch the full discussion here on

The Expanse Expanded

Expanse Fandom: Beyond the Material Plane

John Bultena Attending SiliCon in 2022, I was privy to meeting numerous fans of The Expanse, seeing as several actors from the show along with authors and producers were present. In meeting these fans, I noticed they had a variety of outfits and makeup. These various cosplays featured items such

The Expanse Expanded

Neck Tattoos, Melting Glaciers, and Blue Goo: The Aesthetics of The Expanse

Lauren Bender Utilitarian spaceships that account for gravity’s pull in every facet of their design. Characters from three factions, each with their own form of dress. The neon-blue organic, crystalline horror of the alien lifeform called the protomolecule. From the outset, The Expanse took the world created by Daniel

The Expanse Expanded

Introduction to The Expanse Expanded

The Expanse was published as a series of nine books written by James S. A. Corey, a joint pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank. It is set in a science fiction future in which humanity has colonised much of the solar system, with the development of distinct cultures

Prompt 6 Strikes

Call for submission: Strikes

We’re launching our next open prompt for submissions to Red Futures! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the previous prompts here. For our next prompt, we are issuing an open call for submissions on the theme of "Strikes." We want to

Prompt 5 Cuisine

Meals in Space

by Jamie Woodcock. A small tray moved past. It has a series of indented sections and ridges. Small pre-packaged items are slotted into the respective parts. Each can only fit in its correct place. It is a simple puzzle, repeated with each tray that comes along. As the contents were

Prompt 4 Relationships

Save yourself for Zon

By Chris Pang. “It’s not you,” she said, stirring the slowly decaying paper straw in her iced mocha with extra chocolate. “It’s just…” “Just what?” In the corner of my vision I fought against the wave of notifications threatening to turn my gaze away. If this was a

The Expanse Expanded

The Expanse special issue

The Expanse was published as a series of nine books written by James S. A. Corey, a joint pen name of Daniel Abrahams and Ty Frank. It is set in a science fiction future in which humanity has colonised much of the solar system, with the development of distinct cultures

End in Fire

End in Fire, Book I Zenith, Chapter 3

By Matthew James Seidel. BOOK I: Zenith Previous Section: Chapter 2, Next section: (coming soon), Contents page. Chapter 3 It was known officially as the Mardo Academy Seconder Support Program. Eleven-year-old Doug Doobin called it mandatory volunteer work. “It’s bad enough making us do stuff on the weekend. But

Prompt 5 Cuisine

Call for submission: Cuisine

We’re launching our next open prompt for submissions to Red Futures! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the prompts New Planet, Utopia, Automation, and Relationships. For our next prompt, we are issuing an open call for submissions on the theme of "Cuisine.

Prompt 4 Relationships

The Third L

by Thomas Strange. I was once sat in a restaurant when my date looked up from her curried goat and said to me “I don’t believe in love. It’s a concept created by the bourgeoisie to trick people into monogamy.” This was an interesting shift in conversation. She

Prompt 4 Relationships

Sooner Than Tomorrow

by Melike Özbay. Marja watches her reflection through the window. It's 6 p.m. She is standing in the space formerly reserved for drivers in this new generation ofautomated unmanned trams. It is impossible for her to even fall because of the slack. In these trams, which flow

Prompt 4 Relationships

Voting at Lightspeed

by Jamie Woodcock. Go down to the docks, through the door to the left of the logistics office, along two corridors, right at the admin office, up a flight of stairs, through the back of the canteen kitchen, down two floors, then at the end of a maintenance tunnel there

Prompt 4 Relationships

Scrap Heap

by Emilie Reed. When we crossed over into an asteroid shadow, which bent lines of radio communication, leaving us unsure if our regular pings met any destination or just spoke into the void, the excursion began to have the feeling of a dream. Kathe, who was the only other person

Call for submissions: Relationships

We’re launching our next open prompt for submissions to Red Futures! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the prompts New Planet, Utopia, and Automation. For our next prompt, we are issuing an open call for submissions on the theme of "relationships."

Prompt 3 Automation

Past futures

by Karri Lybeck. These were the times of seeping tears. Commodities scarce, teeth grinding in a cold night with the gray snow beating on collars made of rugs, threaded, worn and weary. Eyes so gloomy, grim was the touch between you and I distant. These were the times demanding. Days

Prompt 3 Automation

Creative Spark

by Tom Strange. “Oh, how tiresome.” Creative-Spark RF774-326L, known as Raphael to his friends, took a drag from his cigarette as he stood outside his local café. A sign on the window read ‘NO ROBOTS’. Since the discovery of the creative spark, robots had become increasingly unpopular. Automation had been

Prompt 3 Automation

Generation 0

by Lana Sinapayen. The debate ended, uncharacteristically, by an agreement. Oh, of course each of the two parties still thought the other was absolutely wrong; but they had agreed on the means to scientifically demonstrate that the others were idiots. There was one definitive solution to the issue, one experiment

Prompt 3 Automation

The Caretaker

by Jamie Woodcock. Fingers drummed on the console, waiting for the page to load. Light delay added stuttering to accessing information this far out. The news bubbled away in the background. “...available in all good stores and resupply stations. Now, the latest news from the belt is that Caldecott-Krüger will

End in Fire

End in Fire, Book I Zenith, Chapter 2

By Matthew James Seidel. BOOK I: Zenith Previous Section: Chapter 1, Next section: Chapter 3, Contents page. Chapter 2 10 minutes 38 seconds 10 minutes 37 seconds Sixteen-year-old Francisco Abeda’s hands were shaking. His right leg was pumping up and down. His knee produced a steady dull thump-thump-thump every

Prompt 3 Automation

Call for submissions: Automation

We’re launching an open prompt for submissions to our next round of Red Futures Science Fiction writing! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the prompts New Planet [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/tag/prompt-1-new-planet/] and Utopia [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/tag/prompt-2-utopia/]. For our

End in Fire

End in Fire, Book I Zenith, Chapter 1

By Matthew James Seidel. BOOK I: Zenith Previous Section: Prologue [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/end-in-fire-book-i-zenith-prologue/], Next section: Chapter 2 [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/end-in-fire-book-i-zenith-chapter-2/], Contents page [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/end-in-fire-contents/]. Chapter 1 Like all patriotic holidays, Arrival Day accentuated the brutally maintained divisions within society. That was not, of

Prompt 2 Utopia

Feasibility Report

by Emilie Reed. The woman two desks down from where I sit sometimes ends up working in the same spreadsheet as I am. Checking and filling in the columns is a background clutter task that hardly registers as a skilled behavior to everyone in the office, but I still watch

Prompt 2 Utopia

Dreaming of Utopia

by Jamie Woodcock. It was hard to remember how many days, weeks, months, or even years they had been there. During the transit, the treatment was part of their contract. It was delivered like an immunisation, injected into the shoulder. Instead of providing protection, it changed body chemistry and the

Prompt 1 New Planet

Rings

by Mike Cook. It was the last day on earth, and it looked like it was going to rain. This was the sort of observation Sam would usually make a little mental note of for a later conversation with someone, but catastrophic global disasters made it hard to find someone