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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. 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 series of science fiction novels, written under the joint pseudonym James S. A. Corey. The series has been adapted into the television series The Expanse , with both Abraham and Franck serving as writers and producers on the show.

Under the pseudonym M. L. N. Hanover, Abraham is the author of the Black Sun's Daughter urban fantasy series. With Franck, he wrote the Star Wars novel Honor Among Thieves , again as James S. A. Corey. Abraham collaborated with George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois to write the science fiction novel Hunter's Run . 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 has contributed to Martin's Wild Cards universe.

His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, and have been collected in Leviathan Wept and Other Stories . 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. Abraham is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop 1998.



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“He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren’t anyone’s strong suit.”

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Origine: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 50 (p. 504)

““See, this is why I can’t ever be in command,” she said.
“Don’t like making tough calls with incomplete information?”
“More I’m not suicidally irresponsible,” she replied.”

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Origine: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 17 (pp. 178-179)

“Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.”

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Origine: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 2 (p. 20)

“She didn’t care. Not caring was how she got through the day.”

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Origine: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 170)

“If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.”

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Origine: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 2 (p. 21)

“All bluster, no balls.”

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Origine: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 22 (p. 228)

“That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. The calculus of all human power was changing, and the models she used to make sense of it shifted with them, and she had to keep reminding herself that the past was a different place. She didn’t live there anymore.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Epilogue (p. 576)

“But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 48 (p. 491)

“They fought and worked and devised intricate plans to buy more time. Basia had no doubt that they’d work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn’t something he’d ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 47 (p. 481)

“From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 45 (p. 458)

“There were a lot of holes in that logic that he carefully avoided thinking about.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 39 (p. 400)

“It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 34 (p. 345)

“I hate that it breaks down that way. Your side and mine. One of my teachers back in school always used to say that contagion was the one absolute proof of community. People could pretend there weren’t drug users and prostitutes and unvaccinated children all they wanted, but when the plague came through, all that mattered was who was actually breathing your air.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 27 (p. 277)

“Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 22 (p. 219)

“We’re the ones who followed the rules here. We came with science teams and a hard dome. We hired them to build our landing platform, and they killed us. We’re the good guys here.”

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“And the moral high ground is a lovely place,” Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. “It won’t stop a missile, though.”
Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 15 (p. 156)

“Everything was an artifact of its function. That’s what made evolution so gorgeous.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 6 (p. 64)

“Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.”

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Origine: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 5 (p. 55)

“She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.”

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Abaddon's Gate (2013), Epilogue (p. 538)

“Holden yelled in frustration. The universe kept waiting until he was thoroughly beaten, then tossing him a nibble of hope only to yank it away again.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 50 (p. 509)

“They’d made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they’d hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 47 (p. 475)

“When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 46 (p. 472)

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as an option. When you can’t think of a good rebuttal for your opponent’s argument, you can always punch them in the face.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 44 (p. 444)

“He still wasn’t sure whether he believed it was true, even. But right now, it needed to be, and so it was.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 41 (p. 423)

“We keep acting without thinking and you think the solution is to do it one more time. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I’ll fight you now.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 39 (p. 404)

“I’m getting a medal for falling into a pressure hatch, sacrificing an arm and a leg to keep seven sailors from being trapped in a compromised part of the ship. I was unconscious at the time, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 32 (p. 338)

“History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 32 (p. 335)

“If you’re aiming not to creep me the hell out, you need more practice.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 25 (p. 264)

“It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 22 (p. 230)

“Traveling between the planets had never eliminated murder. So many highly evolved primates in the same box for months on end, a certain death rate had to be expected.”

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Origine: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 14 (p. 148)

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