In this very special Hands on Episode, Merry and Clint cover the first act of the seventh book of the BEST SCI FI SERIES EVER, Persepolis Rising from the Expanse.

This episode includes:

• Merry and Clint get legitimately choked up talking about the themes of family, mercy, humanity, and beauty. 
• Everyone loves to hate (and love) that big idiot Santiago Singh.
• Clint gets to talk about Thomas Hobbes and the Leviathan, which is both waking and falling in the narrative.
• Merry goes long on whether punishment ships are a good idea or a bad idea (spoiler: BAD)
• We pour one out for Camina Drummer and her husband Saba, just the best fucking people.
• AVASARALA IS IN THIS PART.
• We give big middle fingers to Laconia, "benevolent dictatorship", and the concept of a non-human collective.
• Bobbie Draper. That's it. Bobbie Draper.

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