Daniel Abraham

Career Early work In 1996, Abraham's first short story, "Mixing Rebecca", was published in The Silver Web #13. It was followed by several dozen short stories, novelettes, and novellas, published in anthologies, and magazines like Asimov's Science Fiction and Fantasy & Science Fiction. His novelette "Flat Diane" won the 2005 International Horror Guild Award He wrote the character Johnathan "Bugsy" Tipton-Clarke in Suicide Kings, released on December 22, 2009. A six-issue limited comic book series, Wild Cards: The Hard Call, was written by Abraham with art by Eric Battle. The series was initially published in 2008 by Dabel Brothers, and concluded in 2010 with Dynamite Entertainment taking over as publisher. In 2013 Tor.com published Abraham's new Wild Cards short story, "When We Were Heroes", edited by Martin.

Hunter's Run

In September 2007, Eos Books published the science fiction novel Hunter's Run, a collaboration between Abraham, George R. R. Martin, and Gardner Dozois. The story began as an untitled novella written by Dozois and submitted to Martin for critique in 1977. Years later, Dozois was suffering from writer's block and asked Martin to help him finish the story. In 2002, Martin and Dozois decided to bring in a third author to finish the novella, asking Abraham to overhaul the 20,000 word manuscript and write an ending. The writers "threw everything out" Abraham was impressed by the amount of research and world-building Franck had done and asked to write a novel set in the game's universe. Franck agreed and decided to split the proceeds of the book with Abraham for his part in writing from Franck's notes and outline. After reading Abraham's first chapters, Franck decided to become more involved with the writing. The pair collaborated on the overarching plot, meeting weekly to outline chapters, with Abraham focusing on structure and prose, and Franck developing the story and world. They alternate chapters, writing for different characters each, with Abraham writing Miller, Melba, Avasarala, Bull, and Prax, then swap and rewrite the other's work. right James S.A. Corey (Ty Franck, left, and Daniel Abraham) in 2014 The first book, Leviathan Wakes, was published in June 2011 by Orbit, Abraham's publishing house for his fantasy series The Dagger and the Coin. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award in 2012 and received acclaim from the science fiction community.

Its sequel, Caliban's War, was published in June 2012. The novel expanded the number of point of view characters from two to four, which according to Abraham, allowed for more freedom to explore the characters' situations. A second prequel short story, "Drive", was published in the anthology Edge of Infinity in November 2012, set decades before the first novel.

The third book, Abaddon's Gate, was released in June 2013, and won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

The fourth book, Cibola Burn, was published in June 2014, the first novel in the series to be released in hardcover. It was followed by the novella The Vital Abyss in October 2015.

The sixth book, Babylon's Ashes, was released in December 2016, the seventh, Persepolis Rising, in December 2017; and the eighth Tiamat's Wrath, in March 2019. The final installation, Leviathan Falls, was released in November 2021.

A Game of Thrones graphic novels Abraham adapted George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, the first novel of A Song of Ice and Fire, into a comic book series. The 24-issue series featured art by Tommy Patterson and colors by Ivan Nunes, and was published by Dynamite Entertainment from September 21, 2011, to July 30, 2014. It was collected as four hardcover graphic novels by Bantam Books, the first volume featuring a preface by Martin. In 2014, Abraham stated that he would not be adapting A Clash of Kings.

Honor Among Thieves In New York Comic Con 2013, Del Rey Books announced a new Star Wars novel by Abraham and Ty Franck, writing as James S. A. Corey. The book would be a standalone novel focusing on Han Solo, set between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. Honor Among Thieves was released on March 4, 2014, as the second installment of the Empire and Rebellion series. The writers watched A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back several times to capture Han Solo's voice while writing the book. A short story written by Corey titled "Silver and Scarlet" was included in the book as well as published in Star Wars Insider #148. A month after the novel was published, the Star Wars Expanded Universe was declared non-canon and renamed Star Wars Legends after the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm, making Honor Among Thieves the last Expanded Universe publication.

The Expanse television series

In September 2013, Alcon Television Group acquired the rights to the Expanse novels to be developed as a television series. Syfy gave a straight-to-series order for a 10-episode first season of the show in April 2014. The Expanse was developed by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby, who wrote the pilot and serve as writers, executive producers, and showrunners alongside Naren Shankar. Writing for a second season commenced in May 2015, before the first season aired, and was officially ordered for in December 2015, with an increased order of 13 episodes. SyFy aired the second-season premiere on February 1, 2017. Abraham and Ty Franck, who write the novels under the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey, serve as writers and producers on the show.

Personal life Abraham lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Katherine Abraham and their daughter Scarlet. The Widow's House (August 5, 2014) The Spider's War (March 8, 2016)

The Expanse series (Written with Ty Franck under the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey.)

The Kithamar Trilogy Age of Ash (February 15, 2022) Blade of Dream (July 23, 2023)

Stand-alone novels Hunter's Run (with Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin) (2007) Inside Straight (with other authors, edited by George R. R. Martin) (Wild Cards mosaic novel) (2008) Suicide Kings (with other authors, edited by George R. R. Martin) (Wild Cards mosaic novel) (2009) "The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs" (Novella) (2013)

Tie-in fiction Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey) (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, book 2) (2014)

Selected accolades Year Award Category Title of work Result Ref.2005International Horror Guild AwardMid-length Fiction"Flat Diane" 2005Nebula Award Best Novelette"Flat Diane" 2008World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction"The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics" 2008Hugo Award Best Novelette"The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics" 2012Hugo AwardBest NovelLeviathan Wakes (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey) 2012Locus AwardBest Science Fiction NovelLeviathan Wakes (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey) 2014 Locus AwardBest Science Fiction NovelAbaddon's Gate (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey)