Daniel Abraham

Speculative fiction writer from the United States · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1969 · age 56

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

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2023Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short FormAward2022Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short FormAward2015“It’s always been like this. Every generation finds its own way to show that it isn’t like the one before.”In their wordsRates of Change (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey), in Meeting Infinity (2015), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and published by Solaris ,Read the whole statement

2014Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAward2008“Writers are a basically insecure bunch. We are convinced that everything we do sucks, all the time. It's something you have to fight.”In their wordsJune 2008interview with Locus Magazine, June 2008Read the whole statement

1969Born14 November 1969

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Abraham in 2006

James S.A. Corey (Ty Franck, left, and Daniel Abraham) in 2014

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I was listening to Tim Powers talking and he said he didn't want his villains just defeated, he wanted them humiliated and destroyed. And I thought: 'I don't.
interview with Jack Womack in Orbit Books Podcast, Own words
I don't find fantasy to be more or less suited to philosophical questions than any other genre, really.
Interview with Peter Orullian, Own words
I think that the successful genres of a particular period are reflections of the needs and thoughts and social struggles of that time.
On his blog, talking about genre, Own words

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form2023

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form2022

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2014

About this person

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 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 Wild Cards anthology series shared universe.

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