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Here's the cover art for Daniel Abraham's next two novels: Abaddon's Gate , the third volume of The Expanse (written with Ty Franck under the pen name James S.A. Corey); and The Tyrant's Law , the third volume in The Dagger and the Coin : The Tyrant's Law will be published in May 2013, with Abaddon's Gate following a month later.

James S.A. Corey - the gestalt entity formed by the unholy union of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck - will be penning a Star Wars novel. Probably not the cover art for the book. Del Rey will be releasing a new series called Rebel , which focuses on the classic heroes of the Rebellion. The series will comprise books on Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, but AbraFranck will be tackling Han Solo. It sounds like the book will be published in late 2013.

An alien protomolocule has taken root on Venus. Earth and Mars are in a shooting match over an incident on Ganymede. The Solar system is moving towards all-out anarchy and war, and it falls to a well-meaning meddler, a canny politician, a Martian marine and a grief-stricken botanist to try to stop the descent into madness. Caliban's War is the second novel in The Expanse series, following on from last year's well-received Leviathan Wakes . This is old-school space opera, featuring the crew of a spacecraft as they attempt to save the Solar system from an alien menace. The series features some nods towards serious science - the ships work strictly by Newtonian physics and there is no FTL travel, with the scope of events being limited (so far) to the Solar system alone - but it's certainly not hard SF. The emphasis is being on an entertaining, fast-paced read, and the book pulls this off with aplomb. The cast of characters has been expanded in this volume, with only Holden r...

Via their James S.A. Corey Facebook page, Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham have confirmed that the third book in The Expanse space opera series will be called Abbadon's Gate , following up on last year's Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War (due in a couple of months). Also on the same Facebook page, the authors reveal that there will be a give-away of ARCs for Caliban's War closer to the release date. In the meantime, Orbit also have a sample of the novel available. Update : Daniel Abraham has confirmed that Abaddon's Gate replaces the original working title for Book 3, Dandelion Sky : "The consensus (probably accurately) was that Dandelion Sky was a little too pastoral and Ray Bradbury for the book as it is." It's worth noting an unfortunate similarity between the new title and Warhammer 40,000 . The principal villain of WH40K, Abaddon the Despoiler, captured the Cadian Gate during a recent in-setting military campaign, leading to the two words crop...