My novella was “The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred”. It’s in this collection, “Phoresis and Other Journeys”:
https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Ebooks.html#Phoresis
It’s a while since I watched “The Expanse” (I didn’t finish it before it moved from Netflix to Prime, and I keep meaning to go back to it), but on Wikipedia the plot summary for the first episode reads:
“The series opens with Julie Mao in a spacesuit, alone aboard a spaceship. On the dwarf planet Ceres, Detective Miller is assigned to find Mao and return her to her rich parents on Luna … ”
In the second episode:
“On Ceres, Miller investigates the theft of water, now severely rationed due to the Canterbury's failure to return … ”
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