James S. A. Corey is the

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used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and

Ty Franck Ty Franck (born May 18, 1969) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for co-authoring ''The Expanse'' with Daniel Abraham under the pseudonym James S. A. Corey, as well as '' Game of Thrones: A Telltal ...

, authors of the science fiction series ''

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''. The first and last name are taken from Abraham's and Franck's middle names, respectively, and S. A. are the initials of Abraham's daughter. The name is also meant to emulate many of the

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writers of the 1970s. In

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, their books are published under the name James Corey with the middle initials omitted.

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

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) in 2011. Together they wrote ''

Leviathan Wakes ''Leviathan Wakes'' is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of American writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. It is the first book in the ''Expanse'' series, followed by ''Caliban's War'' (2012), ''Abaddon's Gate'' (2013) ...

'' (2011), the first science fiction novel in the series ''

''. ''Leviathan Wakes'' was nominated for the 2012

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and the 2012

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. The authors began to release other novels in the series including ''

Caliban's War ''Caliban's War'' is a 2012 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). It is about a conflict in the Solar System that involves Earth, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt (colonies of people living on asteroid ...

'' (2012), ''Abaddon's Gate'' (2013), ''Cibola Burn'' (2014), ''Nemesis Games'' (2015), ''Babylon's Ashes'' (2016), and ''Persepolis Rising'' (2017). ''Abaddon's Gate'' won the Locus Award. Orbit Books signed the authors to write additional books in the ''Expanse'' series to bring the total to nine. The eighth book in the series, ''Tiamat's Wrath'', was released on March 26, 2019. The final installment, ''Leviathan Falls'', was reportedly turned in to the publisher on May 17, 2021, and was released on November 30, 2021. The ''Expanse'' series was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017 and won in 2020. Between each pair of 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. A short story entitled ''Drive'' was released in November 2012 as a part of the anthology ''Edge of Infinity''. Another novella, ''The Churn'', was released April 29, 2014, and other novellas have followed. All are set in ''The Expanse'' series. 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. In September 2023, the duo started writing a new novel, with their collaborative process being open to their Patreon audience. The project ''James S. A. Corey Writes a Novel'' was inspired by Harlan Ellison's experiment of writing in the bookshop windows. On November 9, 2023, the authors announced a new space-opera series, the ''Captive's War'' trilogy, whose first book, ''The Mercy of Gods'', will be released August 6, 2024. The first chapter of the book was published on May 28, 2024 on Polygon (website), Polygon.

Bibliography

''The Expanse'' series

The ''Captive's War'' trilogy

* ''The Mercy of Gods'' (August 6, 2024)

Other novels

* ''Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves'' (''Star Wars Expanded Universe, Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion'', book 2) (2014)

Short fiction

* "A Man Without Honor", ''Old Mars'', eds.

and Gardner Dozois (2013) * "Silver and Scarlet" (''Star Wars'' story), ''Star Wars Insider'' No. 148 (2014) * "The Drones", ''Popular Science'' (2015) * "Rates of Change", ''Meeting Infinity'', ed. Jonathan Strahan (2015) * "The Hunger After You're Fed", ''Wired (magazine), Wired'' (2016) * "How It Unfolds", ''The Far Reaches'' No. 1 (2023)