“The original concept for this was we would write Leviathan Wakes and sell it for pizza money,” Abraham said.įranck added, “We didn’t have high expectations for it being a big new title or anything. Their aspirations were extremely modest initially. That sounds fun.’ But if Daniel had said, ‘Hey, you’ve got all this cool stuff-let’s do a nine-book, million-and-a-half-word epic, along with a collection of short stories,’ I probably would have said, ‘No.’ ” “That’s really easy to conceptualize over beer one afternoon, and it’s really insane as a thing to take on for a decade, and then be able to pull it off.”įranck recalled, “When Daniel said, ‘Hey, you’ve got all this cool stuff-do you want to write a book with me?’ My answer was, ‘Yeah, sure. “It’s ridiculously ambitious, doing this many books, with this huge scope, starting off with kind of late Apollo 13, and doing the whole arc up into showing how the Galactic Empire happens,” Abraham said. Abraham said that he was surprised that he and Franck completed the whole thing, especially after they’d added the equivalent of second full-time jobs as executive producers of the TV adaptation that began airing on the Syfy channel in 2015-prior to their writing the sixth book. The creators, who were interviewed over Zoom, had not expected to write an ongoing series. Corey, ends with Leviathan Falls, a satisfying conclusion that doesn’t pull its punches. This November, the 2020 Hugo Award winner for best series, written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck under the pseudonym James S.A. The novels, which are rich in drama and action, and which have been compared to A Song of Ice and Fire, balance nuanced characterizations, economics, politics, and issues such as medical ethics, race relations, and equity. It is The Expanse, a triumph of creative imagination that presents a plausible future for humanity as it ventures beyond Earth to establish communities throughout the solar system. Twenty years and over one million words later, it is a bestselling series of nine books that have reimagined the idea of a space opera and spawned an acclaimed television series.
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