Daniel Abraham Books in Order

Private investigator Randi Wade tracks a brutal string of murders and crosses paths with Willie Flambeaux, a mob-connected werewolf. Daniel Abraham adapts this dark urban-horror story into a graphic novel of blood, old grudges, and survival.

In the wealthy city of Saraykeht, prosperity depends on a captive magical being bound to a poet. When the Galt Empire plots to break that bond, laborer Otah Machi learns enough to become the city's unlikely defender.

Exiled Otah Machi returns home when his father is dying and his eldest brother is murdered. A brutal succession struggle and Galtish intrigue turn his family crisis into a dangerous fight for the future of Machi.

On the colony world of São Paulo, prospector Ramón Espejo flees into the wild after killing a man in a bar fight. He stumbles into something alien and dangerous, and is forced into a brutal hunt that will test his body, his mind, and his sense of who he is.

Quiet currency trader Olaf Neddelsohn attracts the attention of the cruel Lord Iron, who sets him a series of impossible challenges. This sharp fantasy fable turns exchange rates, leverage, and logic into matters of life and soul.

As the Galt Empire prepares a final assault on the Khaiem, Otah and Maati face the consequences of the magic they helped shape. War forces old friends and families into choices that will change their world permanently.

In the Wild Cards universe, a new cast of altered humans faces a crisis that brings danger, public fear, and superhuman powers together. Daniel Abraham scripts this graphic novel, which also returns to the sleepless Joker Croyd Crenson.

Fifteen years after war destroys the Khaiem's old magical order, rulers seek peace through a marriage alliance. But the guilty poet Maati tries to restore the andat, and a new creation threatens both nations with catastrophe.

This collection brings together Daniel Abraham's shorter fantasy, science fiction, horror, and darkly comic work. It includes the economic fable "The Cambist and Lord Iron," the unsettling "Flat Diane," and stories that range widely in tone and setting.

This wide-ranging anthology gathers steampunk stories and art from many writers, including Daniel Abraham's playful adventure featuring Balfour and Meriwether. Expect alternate histories, strange machines, fantasy, and science fiction rather than one continuous plot.

When ice hauler officer James Holden and detective Miller follow the trail of a missing girl, they uncover a conspiracy that could ignite war across the solar system. A smart, propulsive start with noir energy.

As war reaches the free city of Vanai, a young bank ward, a scarred soldier, a nobleman, and an overlooked scholar are swept into the same crisis. Their choices open a path toward conquest, fear, and ancient danger.

On Ganymede, a Martian marine sees something impossible. As Earth and Mars edge toward war and the protomolecule threat grows, Holden and the Rocinante hunt for answers that could change humanity's future.

Geder Palliako rises at the Antean court while banker Cithrin bel Sarcour finds herself trapped by the power she helped build. An apostate priest and a broken soldier uncover a buried threat tied to the vanished dragon empire.

A mysterious Ring appears beyond Uranus, and a massive expedition rushes toward it. Holden and the Rocinante are caught between rival fleets, sabotage, and the terrifying question of what built the gate.

During a mission to secure crucial supplies for the Rebellion, Leia and Han are captured by pirates who turn out to be desperate survivors from Alderaan. Caught between helping her scattered people and protecting the Alliance, Leia has to outmaneuver both the raiders and the Empire closing in.

Randi Wade's murder investigation grows more dangerous as her reluctant werewolf ally, Willie Flambeaux, is pulled deeper into the case. This second issue tightens the noir mystery and makes clear that the killings are far from ordinary.

The hunt closes in on Randi Wade and Willie Flambeaux as the supernatural violence behind the murders becomes harder to contain. Old loyalties, mob connections, and the danger of the full moon leave little room for a clean escape.

Randi Wade and Willie Flambeaux reach the final confrontation in their bloody werewolf case. The last issue brings the investigation's hidden motives into the open and forces both survivors to face what they can live with afterward.

Lord Regent Geder Palliako expands his war in the name of peace, leaving devastation behind him. Cithrin, Clara, and Marcus each work against his rule, while an ancient secret may offer the only way to change the conflict.

A short piece by Daniel Abraham that considers heroism from a more intimate angle, focusing on the gap between the stories people tell about courage and the harder reality of living with its consequences.

Humanity races through the gates to new worlds, and the first colony on Ilus is already on the edge of violence. Holden arrives to keep the peace, only to find old grudges and alien dangers waiting.

Han Solo, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and their Rebel allies take on a dangerous mission to recover a mysterious device before the Empire can claim it. The job leads through criminals, ancient secrets, and a problem that threatens more than one world.

Geder's victories give him more power, but not the loyalty he wants most. As Clara faces the collapse of her family and Cithrin and Marcus uncover the war's ancient roots, saving the world may require Cithrin to rule it.

As the Rocinante crew scatters on separate journeys, old enemies strike the inner planets with devastating force. Personal histories collide with systemwide catastrophe in one of the series' most character-driven entries.

Marco Inaros and the Free Navy control the chaos after their attacks on Earth. Holden and his allies must hold a fragile coalition together and fight for the gates before the system tears itself apart.

Geder's empire begins to fracture even as its armies keep conquering. Cithrin, Marcus, and Clara must attempt an impossible peace, using traitors, old dragon knowledge, and a financial plan that could save the world or destroy it.

Decades later, the Rocinante is older, the colonies are thriving, and a hidden empire returns with overwhelming force. Holden's crew faces a new kind of conquest, and the balance of human power shifts again.

With Holden imprisoned and Laconia tightening its grip, the Rocinante crew joins a dangerous underground resistance. At the same time, Elvi Okoye digs into an ancient mystery that may be even deadlier than the empire.

The Laconian Empire is cracking, but the ancient force behind the gates is awake. Holden, Elvi, and their allies chase one last impossible solution as humanity faces a threat bigger than any war.

After her brother is murdered, petty thief Alys searches Kithamar's streets for the truth. Her grief-driven investigation reaches into hidden powers beneath the city, forcing her to decide what she will risk for answers.

This collection gathers every Expanse novella and short story, from early Belt conflicts to the final aftermath of the ring network. It is the easiest way to read the series' side stories, character histories, and wider-universe episodes together.

After the collapse of the ring network, Filip Inaros lives under another name on an isolated colony world. This quiet epilogue follows a man trying to outrun his father's legacy when danger reaches the settlement.

Garreth, heir to a struggling Kithamar merchant family, wants a life beyond his family's plans. His choices lead him through dangerous corners of the city, where love, duty, and old powers make every bargain more costly.

Set in the world of The Captive's War, this novella follows a human soldier remade by advanced military technology. As the war against the Carryx grinds on, the livesuit meant to protect him raises painful questions about identity and survival.

When the alien Carryx conquer the human world of Anjiin, research assistant Dafyd Alkhor becomes one of many captives forced to prove their usefulness. Survival means navigating an empire built on conquest, while a far older war closes in.

Dafyd Alkhor has carved out a place among the Carryx, but his apparent loyalty masks dangerous intentions. As the empire's ancient war demands ever more from its captives, he must decide what humanity can become in order to survive.