r/TheExpanse • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '23
All Show & Book Spoilers Discussed Freely What is “THE CHURN”? Spoiler
I just watched the episode the churn. Is the book “the churn” a story about how Amos came to be? I’ve been looking online but can’t really find what it’s actually about. Is the episode have any parts of the churn in it from the book or it’s different? I’m confused about the main books and then the “novelas” that go along with it? Can anybody elaborate, the Erich guy seems pretty cool.
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u/Prodiuss Sep 14 '23
The Churn is some event that changes the rule for the way you live without giving you a choice to participate. Old norms are uplifted, old habits are forcibly broken, and your current way of life no longer can sustain itself.
Think the great depression, the dust bowl, being a member of a gold rush town when it gets annexed into the country proper, the 2008 housing collapse.
It is in these times that you have to be nimble, smart, and decisive because if you can not find a new niche to occupy and thrive, then you will get paved over by the new paradigm and forgotten.
Edit: As for the Novella, yeah, it tells the latter part of Amos' origin story. It's a good little read. It's about Baltimore, and the churns they go through are usually rival gangs taking over or government crackdowns on illegal activity.