Franck co-writes space fiction under a shared pen name, including The Captive's War, Livesuit and Memory's Legion. The setting originated as a game world, which is why its factions, economies and technologies hold together under scrutiny: they were designed to be played in before they were written about.
He worked in and around the science fiction publishing world before the collaboration, and the writing partnership divides labour between structure and prose. The result reads as a single voice, an unusual outcome for co-authored fiction at this length, and one the pair have described as a deliberate discipline.
Recurring subjects: labour in space treated as a job with unions and grievances, scarcity as the driver of politics, and technology that fails in mundane ways. Chapters are short and rotate viewpoint, keeping momentum across a large cast spread over enormous distances and long transit times.
The collaboration produced one of the defining space fiction series of its period, notable for treating the solar system as a place with an economy, a labour force and supply chains rather than as a backdrop.
For readers who want plausible engineering and messy politics in the same book. A good entry point for readers who usually find hard science fiction dry, since the characters carry the physics rather than the other way round. The early volumes read fast enough to be treated as thrillers.
Sur la colonie humaine d'Anjiin, l'arrivée des Carryx, un empire alien conquérant, bouleverse tout. Des millions sont tués, des scientifiques enlevés. Parmi eux, Dafyd Alkhor, contraint de prouver l'utilité de l'humanité dans une cité-monde extraterrestre. Entre résistance clandestine, trahisons et une guerre interstellaire ancienne, la survie exige des choix impossibles.
Kirin enlists in the Livesuit infantry to fight the Carryx alongside his friend Piotr. The suit, surgically fused to his body, makes him a formidable soldier but blurs the boundary between human and machine. As war takes its toll, Kirin discovers the true, horrifying cost of the technology he wears.
Short fiction collection that gathers the Expanse companion stories into one volume, spanning earlier periods and gaps between novels. Where the main series runs on crisis momentum, these pieces slow down for ordinary shipboard life and character decisions, by James S.A. Corey, aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.