Caliban's War

James S. A. Corey is the pen name for the author duo of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The world of The Expanse began as a role-playing game that Franck developed, set in a futuristic world where humans have colonized a large part of the solar system thanks to a fusion-based engine called the Epstein drive. Abraham is the author of the fantasy series The Black Sun’s Daughters, written under the pen name M.L.N. Hanover; he also collaborated on the 2007 novel Hunter’s Run with George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones.

After participating in the role-playing game, Abraham proposed writing a novel based on Franck’s world and characters, and the project grew into an active collaboration. At this time of writing, The Expanse includes nine novels and nine novellas or short stories that take place during or around the events of the books. The Syfy channel adapted several early novels into three seasons of a television series, which Amazon acquired and continued for another three seasons (2015-2022). Leviathan Wakes (2011) was nominated for a Hugo Award, a prestigious honor for science fiction novels, and The Expanse later won a Hugo Award as a series.