Timelines of The Expanse, both TV episodes and written works

Had I read the novels before seeing what, in all its aspects, in many respects is the best scifi series ever, that timeline would come first.

THE EXPANSE:  THE TV SERIES

Rather than divide up the TV series by its seasons, this timeline separates them by the novels from which they are derived as well as noting two short stories added to episodes plus two novellas that in the TV series coincide with a season equivalent to a novel.

The Expanse: Origins TPB

Leviathan Wakes

The Expanse S01E01 Dulcinea
The Expanse S01E02 The Big Empty
The Expanse S01E03 Remember the Cant
The Expanse S01E04 CQB
The Expanse S01E05 Back to the Butcher + The Butcher of Anderson Station
The Expanse S01E06 Rock Bottom
The Expanse S01E07 Windmills
The Expanse S01E08 Salvage
The Expanse S01E09 Critical Mass
The Expanse S01E10 Leviathan Wakes
The Expanse S02E01 Safe
The Expanse S02E02 Doors & Corners
The Expanse S02E03 Static
The Expanse S02E04 Godspeed
The Expanse S02E05 Home

Caliban’s War

The Expanse S02E06 Paradigm Shift + Drive
The Expanse S02E07 The Seventh Man
The Expanse S02E08 Pyre
The Expanse S02E09 The Weeping Somnambulist
The Expanse S02E10 Cascade
The Expanse S02E11 Here There Be Dragons
The Expanse S02E12 The Monster and the Rocket
The Expanse S02E13 Caliban's War
The Expanse S03E01 Fight or Flight
The Expanse S03E02 IFF
The Expanse S03E03 Assured Destruction
The Expanse S03E04 Reload
The Expanse S03E05 Triple Point
The Expanse S03E06 Immolation

Abbadon’s Gate

The Expanse S03E07 Delta-V
The Expanse S03E08 It Reaches Out
The Expanse S03E09 Intransigence
The Expanse S03E10 Dandelion Sky
The Expanse S03E11 Fallen World
The Expanse S03E12 Congregation
The Expanse S03E13 Abaddon's Gate

Cibola Burn + Gods of Risk

The Expanse S04E01 New Terra
The Expanse S04E02 Jetsam
The Expanse S04E03 Subduction
The Expanse S04E04 Retrograde
The Expanse S04E05 Oppressor
The Expanse S04E06 Displacement
The Expanse S04E07 A Shot In The Dark
The Expanse S04E08 The One-Eyed Man
The Expanse S04E09 Saeculum
The Expanse S04E10 Cibola Burn

The Expanse TPB

Nemesis Games

The Expanse S05E01 Exodus
The Expanse S05E02 Churn
The Expanse S05E03 Mother
The Expanse S05E04 Gaugamela
The Expanse S05E05 Down and Out
The Expanse S05E06 Tribes
The Expanse S05E07 Oyedeng
The Expanse S05E08 Hard Vacuum
The Expanse S05E09 Winnipesaukee
The Expanse S05E10 Nemesis Games

Babylon’s Ashes + Strange Dogs

The Expanse S06E01 Strange Dogs
        The Expanse: One Ship E01 Ankawala
The Expanse S06E02 Azure Dragon
        The Expanse: One Ship E02 Zenobia
The Expanse S06E03 Force Projection
        The Expanse: One Ship E03 Win or Lose
The Expanse S06E04 Redoubt
        The Expanse: One Ship E04 Night Watch
The Expanse S06E05 Why We Fight
        The Expanse: One Ship E05 Remember the Cant
The Expanse S06E06 Babylon’s Ashes

THE EXPANSE:  THE NOVEL SERIES

The comic trade paper backs (TPBs) are not included here because they were written and drawn specifically to coincide with the TV series.

The Expanse 0.1  “Drive” (short story)
The Expanse 0.3  The Churn (novella)
The Expanse 0.5  The Butcher of Anderson Station (novella)
The Expanse 1.0  Leviathan Wakes
The Expanse 1.1  “The Last Flight of the Cassandra” (short story)
The Expanse 2.0  Caliban’s War
The Expanse 2.5  Gods of Risk (novella)
The Expanse 3.0  Abbadon’s Gate
The Expanse 3.5  The Vital Abyss (novella)
The Expanse 4.0  Cibola Burn
The Expanse 5.0  Nemesis Games
The Expanse 6.0  Babylon’s Ashes
The Expanse 6.5  Strange Dogs (novella)
The Expanse 6.0  Persepolis Rising
The Expanse 7.5  Auberon
The Expanse 8.0  Tiamat’s Wrath
The Expanse 9.0  Leviathan Falls
The Expanse 9.5  The Sins of Our Fathers (novella)