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 and the 2012
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The authors began to release other novels in the series, including ''
Caliban's War (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 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 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. In May 2018, Orbit Books announced Corey's new space opera trilogy. In November 2023, the release date of
The Mercy of Gods, first book of ''
The Captive's War'' series, was announced. The first chapter of the book was published on May 28, 2024 on
Polygon. The book, released on August 6, 2024, became an instant New York Times bestseller. In September 2023, the duo started writing a new novel, with their collaborative process being open to their Patreon audience. 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. ==Bibliography==