Daniel Abraham
The Long Price Quartet, the Dagger and the Coin, the Kithamar Trilogy — epic fantasy with literary instincts and political precision.
Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet — A Shadow in Summer and sequels — built one of epic fantasy's most distinctive recent projects, with a magic system based on bound poetic ideas (andat) and worldbuilding modeled on the Asian rather than the European medieval. His Dagger and the Coin pentalogy works classical epic-fantasy material with serious political and economic precision. The Kithamar Trilogy is his current sequence. He also co-writes The Expanse science fiction with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey. The prose is precise and the worldbuilding takes its political and economic systems seriously.
For adult readers who want epic fantasy with literary instincts. Content stays largely restrained — violence handled with care, sexual content present but tasteful, themes treated with serious craft. The reading experience is the pleasure of epic fantasy with literary precision and political-economic worldbuilding most series don't attempt. Pick this shelf when you want epic fantasy that takes its political and economic systems as seriously as its magic.
- Andat magic system as singular invention
- Political and economic worldbuilding precision
- Literary instincts at epic scale
- Co-creator of The Expanse
