'I think Franck described it as 'the disappointing love child of Frank Herbert and Ursula Le Guin,'' Abraham said, naming the authors of Dune and The Dispossessed.Įven after Leviathan Falls comes out next year, fans of The Expanse will likely have a lot more to look forward to, including subsequent seasons of the critically acclaimed TV adaptation streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The new series apparently takes different inspiration, from authors who include more fantasy and mysticism in their work. 'It's a very different project, though,' Abraham said, contrasting it with The Expanse, which he described as following in the tradition of science-fiction authors Larry Niven and Alfred Bester. The duo has already sold a three-book series to Expanse publisher Orbit. 'No,' and 'Not a chance,' the authors responded when asked if prequel novels were a possibility.īut while The Expanse book series may be approaching its end, it's not the end of their collaboration or the Corey pen name. 'There may be Expanse things, there just won't be the book version.' 'There's no plan to write any more novels,' Franck said, while emphasizing that he doesn't know the broader plans for the ongoing TV series. The duo also took a number of questions from the live-stream's audience. The cover for 'Leviathan Falls,' the final novel in 'The Expanse' series. (The only exception to this proposed collection, according to the authors, will be a short story exclusive to the tabletop roleplaying game adaptation of The Expanse.) 'This will be the last novel in the series, we are talking about putting together a collection of all of the novellas and short stories,' Abraham said during the event. Martin, who describes the book as 'interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written.' With art by Daniel Dociu and designed by Lauren Panepinto, the cover includes a pull quote from A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R.

Corey) revealed both the title for the final book in the series and the cover, which portrays flames or an explosion gushing from one side of an immense spacecraft. In a Wednesday live-streamed event over Crowdcast, The Expanse series authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (who together write under the collaborative pen name James S.A. The ninth and final book of The Expanse series of science-fiction novels will be titled Leviathan Falls and will be released in 2021.

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