Do we like Daniel Abraham?
Our score: 6 out of 10. No harmful words, acts or company turned up and he sounds decent, but the public record on his views is thin.
Daniel Abraham is the quieter half of James S. A. Corey, the pen name he shares with Ty Franck. Together they wrote The Expanse, the space opera that became a hit TV show. Abraham says it began as a tabletop role-playing game Franck built, which the pair later turned into books and then a series.
He came up through fantasy and has also written as M. L. N. Hanover. He says George R.R. Martin was one of his first teachers, and that Martin helped with story structure and sentence craft. He is a bloke who credits his mentors, which is a good sign.
On the harm check, we found nothing. No remarks about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or the planet turned up, and no campaigning, conspiracy talk or dodgy collaborators. The record is thin, though: he mostly talks about craft, so this is an absence of red flags rather than a long list of stands.
His latest work is The Captive's War, a series he describes as the other side of space opera from The Expanse. Abraham says it re-imagines the biblical Book of Daniel as epic science fiction. The pair have also taken it to TV development through their company Expanding Universe.
On the good-person side, we found no court cases and no allegations against him. In interviews he credits showrunner Naren Shankar for much of the show's success. He also said the team wanted Bobbie's background kept true to the books, saying “This is not a Daniel and Ty gig.” That's a writer thinking about who gets cast, not just the credit.