Daniel Abraham

Daniel James Abraham (born November 14, 1969), pen names M. L. N. Hanover and James S. A. Corey, is an American novelist, comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer.

He is best known as the author of The Long Price Quartet and The Dagger and the Coin fantasy series, and with Ty Franck, as the co-author of The Expanse science fiction series, written under the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey.

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 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.

Abraham is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop 1998.

In 2022, he appeared on Storybound reading from his book Age of Ash while intermittently sharing anecdotes of his upbringing as a young writer.

Abraham made his first contribution to the Wild Cards shared world anthology universe in Deuces Down, published June 25, 2002, with his story "Father Henry's Little Miracle".

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 resulting novella, "Shadow Twin", was released online on Sci Fiction in 2004, and later reprinted in Asimov's Science Fiction and published as a chapbook by Subterranean Press.

The novel version was suggested by Martin, and retitled Hunter's Run to avoid confusion with the novella version.

The writers "threw everything out" to write the novel, each doing passes on the manuscript, with Dozois putting the finishing touches to the novel.

His novelette "Flat Diane" won the 2005 International Horror Guild Award and was nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award.

Abraham collaborated with George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois to write the science fiction novel Hunter's Run (2007).

A frequent collaborator of Martin, Abraham has adapted several of Martin's novels into comic books and graphic novels, such as A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, and he has contributed to Martin's Wild Cards universe.

In September 2007, Eos Books published the science fiction novel Hunter's Run, a collaboration between Abraham, George R. R. Martin, and Gardner Dozois.

His novelette "The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics" was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award and the 2008 World Fantasy Award.

Abraham contributed the Johnathan Hive story-line to Inside Straight, published on January 21, 2008, by Tor Books as part of a new line of Wild Cards books edited by George R. R. Martin.

The series was initially published in 2008 by Dabel Brothers, and concluded in 2010 with Dynamite Entertainment taking over as publisher.

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.

His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, and have been collected in Leviathan Wept and Other Stories (2010).

In 2011, Abraham launched a new science fiction series, The Expanse, co-authored with Ty Franck under the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey.

The books are based on a role-playing game set up by Franck, who had developed a science fiction universe that spanned the solar system.

After Franck moved to New Mexico and became part of the science fiction writing community, he set up several campaigns of the game, one that included Abraham as a player.

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.

By the end of the process, Abraham has stated it would be hard to identify which line was written by which author.

Leviathan Wakes, book one of The Expanse, was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

His novelette "Flat Diane" was nominated for the Nebula Award.

His novelette "The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics" was nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.

In 2013 Tor.com published Abraham's new Wild Cards short story, "When We Were Heroes", edited by Martin.

With Franck, he wrote the Star Wars novel Honor Among Thieves (2014), again as James S. A. Corey.

The series has been adapted into the television series The Expanse (2015–2022), with both Abraham and Franck serving as writers and producers on the show.

He also contributed to Wildcards anthology series shared universe.

Under the pseudonym M. L. N. Hanover, Abraham is the author of the Black Sun's Daughter urban fantasy series.