Mother Elise was the one who gave birth to him and stayed home when he was young. Holden was born and raised in Montana on Earth, as the only child in a family co-op of five fathers and three mothers. While under the disguise of Walter Philips of the Weeping Somnambulist Holden grew a beard which came in patches of various length and curl.
Most of the information of this answer was taken from this series' Wikipedia page.He is an Earther with pale skin, blue eyes and dark short-cropped hair. So basically, I think that one can read them anytime after having read Leviathan Wakes. They don't spoiler anything about the books and more or less they serve as a tie between the books and the television series (the characters are drawn based on the actors that depicts them on-screen), but they are more enjoyable IMHO if one has already some basic knowledge of the characters whose past history is here narrated. They details the past and provide additional background of the four main characters that compose the Rocinante crew, plus the detective Josephus Miller. There is also a series of "four plus one" comic books named The Expanse: Origins, published in digital edition in 2017, also written by the books' author James S.A. If not present, the short story is set between the previous and the next novel. The notes inside the square brackets, if present, tells when, from an in-universe point of view, do the short stories events happen.
The number between parentheses is the year of publication The Last Flight of the Cassandra (2019).The Butcher of Anderson Station (2011).Also check this question.Īs an example, The Butcher of Anderson Station provides background for one of the most important characters of the series, but there is little point in reading about his past until you have met him during the main novels.
Reading them while already having knowledge and familiarity of the characters, the setting and the story makes them more enjoyable and understandable in-context. Short stories and novellas are published between main novels, but they do not necessarily follow the main story chronologically, they often narrate past events and explore some characters background.Īnyway, like the publisher suggests, as reported in Valorum's answer, it is better to read them following the publishing order: these characters are first introduced in the main novels, and the short stories provide in-depth information, background characterization and world building. The main novels are already in chronological order from an in-universe point of view, so if you start from Book 1 and continue trough the series, you will naturally follow the progression of the story.Įach novel don't necessarily starts immediately after the previous has ended, usually each of them is set one of two year after the previous, but this is not the strict norm.
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