Career
Under the pen name James S. A. Corey, fantasy author Daniel Abraham began to collaborate with Ty Franck (who had worked as a personal assistant to George R. R. Martin) in 2011. Together they wrote Leviathan Wakes (2011), the first science fiction novel in the series The Expanse . Leviathan Wakes was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel [4] and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. [5] The authors began to release other novels in the series, including Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013), [6] Cibola Burn (2014), Nemesis Games (2015), Babylon's Ashes (2016), and Persepolis Rising (2017). Abaddon's Gate won the Locus Award. [7] Orbit Books signed the authors to write additional books in the Expanse series to bring the total to nine. [8] The eighth book in the series, Tiamat's Wrath , was released on March 26, 2019. [9] The final installment, Leviathan Falls , was reportedly turned in to the publisher on May 17, 2021, and was released on November 30, 2021. [10] [11]
The Expanse series was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017 and won in 2020. [12] [13]
Between full-length books, they published shorter works in the series. The first, a short story entitled The Butcher of Anderson Station: A Story of The Expanse, was released as an eBook in October 2011. A 69-page novella, Gods of Risk, followed and was released as an eBook in September 2012. [14] A short story entitled “Drive” was released in November 2012 as a part of the anthology Edge of Infinity. [15] Another novella, The Churn, was released April 29, 2014, [16] and other novellas have followed. All are set in The Expanse universe.
The authors have also written a Star Wars novel, Honor Among Thieves, published by Random House in 2014, and a short story unrelated to The Expanse titled “A Man Without Honor”, included in the anthology Old Mars , edited by George R. R. Martin. [17]
In May 2018, Orbit Books announced Corey's new space opera trilogy. [18] In November 2023, the release date of The Mercy of Gods , first book of The Captive's War series, was announced. [19] [20] The first chapter of the book was published on May 28, 2024 on Polygon. [21] The book, released on August 6, 2024, became an instant New York Times bestseller. [22]
In September 2023, the duo started writing a new novel, with their collaborative process being open to their Patreon audience. [23] [20] The project James S. A. Corey Writes a Novel was inspired by Harlan Ellison's experiment of writing in the bookshop windows. [24]
In November 2024, the duo announced the formation of a company, Expanding Universe, in partnership with Naren Shankar and Breck Eisner, and a TV adaptation of The Captive’s War book trilogy at Amazon. [25] [26]
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