Daniel Abraham Books in Order

Before he was an OPA leader, Fred Johnson was the UN officer blamed for Anderson Station. This sharp prequel shows the choice that shattered his old life and shaped his place in the Belt.

Long before Holden and the Rocinante, Martian engineer Solomon Epstein tests a modified drive and changes human history. A brief, poignant prequel that explains the invention that made the whole Expanse possible.

On Mars, teenager David Draper gets pulled into the drug trade while his aunt Bobbie tries to rebuild her life after Caliban's War. It's a smaller, street-level story with real pressure and family stakes.

In a brutal future Baltimore, young Timmy, the boy who will become Amos Burton, grows up inside crime, poverty, and violence. It's a hard, tense backstory about survival and the people who taught him it.

A group of prisoners waits in limbo, haunted by the crimes that put them there. Then a Martian visitor arrives, and the hidden story behind Eros and the protomolecule starts to come into focus.

On the colony world Laconia, young Cara explores an alien landscape while soldiers build a new order around her family. Her discovery of strange local creatures turns a child-sized adventure into something eerie and important.

On the colony world Auberon, a new imperial governor arrives expecting order and obedience. Instead he finds a place with its own power structure, led by Erich, where politics, crime, and ambition are tightly tangled.