Daniel Abraham (author)
Encyclopedia
Daniel Abraham is a prolific American
science fiction
/ fantasy
author who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico
. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. 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, and sometimes collaborates with George R. R. Martin
, another New Mexico
resident.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
/ fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
author who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. His novelette
Novelette
A novelette is a piece of short prose fiction. The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms is usually based upon word count, with a novelette being longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella...
Flat Diane
Flat Diane
Flat Diane is a novelette by Daniel Abraham which was nominated for the 2005 Nebula Award, and won the 2005 International Horror Guild Award....
was nominated for the Nebula Award
Nebula Award
The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
. His novelette The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics was nominated for the Hugo Award
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
and the World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
.
Abraham is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop
Clarion West Writers Workshop
Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy. It runs yearly late June through the end of July. The workshop is limited to 18 students per year. Each of the six weeks is instructed by a different...
1998, and sometimes collaborates with George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
, another New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
resident.
The Long Price Quartet
- A Shadow in Summer (March 7, 2006)
- A Betrayal in Winter (August 21, 2007)
- An Autumn War (July 22, 2008)
- The Price of Spring (July 21, 2009)
- Shadow and Betrayal (Jan 21, 2010) -- Omnibus of first and second books
- Seasons of War (Jan 21, 2010) -- Omnibus of third and fourth books
The Dagger and the Coin Quintet
- The Dragon's Path (April 7, 2011)
- The King's Blood (Forthcoming)
- The Spider's War (Forthcoming)
The Black Sun's Daughter
- Unclean Spirits (Dec 2, 2008) (as M.L.N. Hanover)
- Darker Angels (Sept 29, 2009) (as M.L.N. Hanover)
- Vicious Grace (Nov 30, 2010) (as M.L.N. Hanover)
- Killing Rites (Nov 29, 2011) (as M.L.N. Hanover)
Expanse Series (with Ty Frank)
- Leviathan Wakes (June 15, 2011) (as James S. A. Corey)
- Caliban's War (Forthcoming) (as James S. A. Corey)
- Dandelion Sky (Forthcoming) (as James S. A. Corey)
Other novels
- Hunter's RunHunter's RunHunter's Run is a 2007 science fiction novel written by Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin. It is a heavily-rewritten and expanded version of an earlier novella called Shadow Twin.-Plot summary:...
(with Gardner DozoisGardner DozoisGardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
and George R. R. MartinGeorge R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
, 2007)
Short fiction
- "Mixing Rebecca", The Silver Web #13, 1996
- "Veritas", Absolute Magnitude, Summer 1998
- "Jaycee", Asimov's Science FictionAsimov's Science FictionAsimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of author and biochemist Isaac Asimov...
, December 1999 - "Chimera 8", Vanishing Acts (anthology), 2000
- "Tauromachia", (with Walter Jon WilliamsWalter Jon WilliamsWalter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired , Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Stationn...
, Sage WalkerSage WalkerSage Walker is a science fiction writer based in New Mexico. She contributed to the Wild Cards series and won the Locus Award for her first novel, Whiteout. She was one of several science fiction authors who attended a United States Department of Homeland Security conference on science and...
, and Michaela RoessnerMichaela RoessnerMichaela-Marie Roessner-Hermann is an American science-fiction writer publishing under the name Michaela Roessner. Born in San Francisco, she was raised in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon...
), Event Horizon (web site) and Asimov's, November/December 2000 - "As Sweet", Realms of FantasyRealms of FantasyRealms of Fantasy is a professional bimonthly fantasy speculative fiction magazine published by Damnation Books, which specializes in fantasy, nonfiction, and art. The magazine publishes short stories by some of the genre's most popular and most prominent authors...
, December 2001 - "Exclusion", Asimov's, February 2001
- "A Good Move in Design Space", Bones of the World (anthology), 2001
- "The Lesson Half Learned", Asimov's, May 2001
- "Gandhi Box", Asimov's, January 2002
- "The Apocrypha According to Cleveland", The Silver Web #15, 2002
- "Ghost Chocolate", Asimov's, August 2002
- "The Mechanism of Grace", The Infinite Matrix (web site)
- "Father Henry's Little Miracle", Wild Cards: Deuces Down (anthology), 2002
- "The Bird of Paradise" (with Susan FrySusan FrySusan Fry is an American author and editor.During Fry's tenure as editor of Speculations, the magazine was twice nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine, in 2001 and 2002.Fry is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop 1998....
), Asimov's, June 2003 - "Pagliacci's Divorce", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
(F&SF), December 2003 - "An Amicable Divorce", The Dark (anthology), 2003
- "Shadow Twin" (with Gardner DozoisGardner DozoisGardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
and George R. R. Martin), Scifi.comSci Fi Channel (United States)Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
, Summer 2004 - "Leviathan Wept", Scifi.com, Summer 2004 (available online)
- "Flat DianeFlat DianeFlat Diane is a novelette by Daniel Abraham which was nominated for the 2005 Nebula Award, and won the 2005 International Horror Guild Award....
", F&SF, October/November 2004 (finalist for 2005 Nebula Award for Best NoveletteNebula Award for Best NoveletteWinners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.-External links:* * *...
) - “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairytale of Economics”, Logorrhea (anthology), May 2007 (finalist for both 2008 Hugo Award for Best NoveletteHugo Award for Best NoveletteThe Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
and 2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Short FictionWorld Fantasy Award for Best Short FictionThis World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy short story voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention....
). The text of this story is available online at http://issuu.com/spectra/docs/cambistandlordiron or in audio at http://podcastle.org/2009/05/06/pc051-the-cambist-and-lord-iron/, both released under a creative commonsCreative CommonsCreative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
license. - "Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance", Enemy Of The Good: Postscripts #19 (anthology), October 2009 available in audio at http://podcastle.org/2011/01/04/podcastle-138-balfour-and-meriwether-in-the-adventure-of-the-emperors-vengeance/
- "The Curandero and the Swede", Fantasy & ScienceFiction, March 2009
- "Hurt Me", Songs of Love and Death (anthology), November 2010, (as M.L.N. Hanover)
Interviews
- 2011 Interview on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast
- Daniel Abraham chats with Aidan Moher
- Interview with Daniel Abraham at BookSpotCentral (formerly FantasyBookSpot.com - March 2006)
- Daniel Abraham interview at Fantasy Hot List (August 2007)
- Interview with Daniel Abraham conducted by Tobias Buckell at Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
. (January 2008)