Expanse Books in Order

An ice miner's discovery of a derelict ship intersects with a detective's search for a missing girl. Jim Holden and Miller uncover a secret that threatens to ignite war across the inhabited solar system.

Before he was an OPA leader, Fred Johnson was the UN officer blamed for Anderson Station. This sharp prequel shows the choice that shattered his old life and shaped his place in the Belt.

A monstrous attack on Ganymede and strange changes on Venus push the solar system toward renewed war. Holden's crew searches for a scientist's missing child while a Martian marine and an Earth politician confront the wider danger.

Long before Holden and the Rocinante, Martian engineer Solomon Epstein tests a modified drive and changes human history. A brief, poignant prequel that explains the invention that made the whole Expanse possible.

On Mars, teenager David Draper gets pulled into the drug trade while his aunt Bobbie tries to rebuild her life after Caliban's War. It's a smaller, street-level story with real pressure and family stakes.

A mysterious Ring appears beyond Uranus, and a massive expedition rushes toward it. Holden and the Rocinante are caught between rival fleets, sabotage, and the terrifying question of what built the gate.

Settlers and a powerful corporation dispute ownership of a newly accessible alien world. Holden arrives to mediate, but ancient technology and a deadly illness turn the political conflict into a struggle for survival.

In a brutal future Baltimore, young Timmy, the boy who will become Amos Burton, grows up inside crime, poverty, and violence. It's a hard, tense backstory about survival and the people who taught him it.

As the Rocinante crew scatters on separate journeys, old enemies strike the inner planets with devastating force. Personal histories collide with systemwide catastrophe in one of the series' most character-driven entries.

A group of prisoners waits in limbo, haunted by the crimes that put them there. Then a Martian visitor arrives, and the hidden story behind Eros and the protomolecule starts to come into focus.

The Free Navy devastates Earth and preys on ships traveling toward the colony worlds. Holden and the Rocinante crew undertake a mission to Medina Station as the surviving powers struggle to form a workable alliance.

The Rocinante crew works to preserve peace across humanity's expanding colony network when Laconia reveals a formidable new power. Advanced weapons and an imperial vision threaten the fragile arrangement between Earth, Mars, and the Belt.

On the colony world Laconia, young Cara explores an alien landscape while soldiers build a new order around her family. Her discovery of strange local creatures turns a child-sized adventure into something eerie and important.

On the colony world Auberon, a new imperial governor arrives expecting order and obedience. Instead he finds a place with its own power structure, led by Erich, where politics, crime, and ambition are tightly tangled.

Laconia's growing empire confronts forces beyond its understanding, while Elvi Okoye investigates the vanished civilization behind the gates. The scattered Rocinante crew joins resistance efforts as Teresa Duarte faces the constraints of life inside the imperial palace.

The Laconian Empire is cracking, but the ancient force behind the gates is awake. Holden, Elvi, and their allies chase one last impossible solution as humanity faces a threat bigger than any war.

This collection gathers every Expanse novella and short story, from early Belt conflicts to the final aftermath of the ring network. It is the easiest way to read the series' side stories, character histories, and wider-universe episodes together.