We are happy to announce that Dr Sara Martín has contributed with the chapter “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte’s Wars in The Expanse Novel Series” to Wars We Never Fought — a collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in popular works of speculative fiction, including novels, films, television, and video games.
The volume offers innovative insights into the intersection of war and its social, cultural, political, and moral consequences. These essays provide accessible and wide-ranging critical analyses of how and why creators of speculative fiction employ war as a device within the diegetic worlds of their stories. In addition, the chapters examine what the depictions of war and warriors within these texts suggest in regard to notions such as race, class, gender, sexuality, difference, sociopolitical power, and other cultural values.
Contextualising the culture in which these narratives are created and consumed, Wars We Never Fought demonstrates how the textual dramatisation of entirely fictitious wars might reflect, interrogate, and even structure understanding of warfare in the “real world.”
Reference: Martín, Sara. “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte in The Expanse Novel Series.” Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction, edited by Matthew B. Hill and Leigha H. McReynolds, Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 177–193. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wars-we-never-fought-9798765121535/