Ty Franck

Ty Franck
Involvement
Crew role	Novelist, Screenwriter
Season(s)	One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six
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Tyler Corey Franck is an American science fiction writer from Portland, Oregon. He currently lives in New Mexico, where he works as the assistant of George R. R. Martin (known for A Song of Ice and Fire) and writes as James S. A. Corey together with Daniel Abraham.

Ty Franck initially created The Expanse as the setting for a tabletop role playing game, and is still responsible for plotting out the big story arcs in the books.

Ty operates the Twitter account for James S. A. Corey - @jamessacorey

Ty also operates the Reddit account for James S. A. Corey - reddit

Biography

Background

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Writer

Season 1

• "Windmills" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)

Season 2

• "Doors & Corners" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Caliban's War" (co-written with Daniel Abraham and Naren Shankar)

Season 3

• "IFF" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Congregation" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Abaddon's Gate" (co-written with Daniel Abraham and Naren Shankar)

Season 4

• "Oppressor" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Saeculum" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Cibola Burn" (co-written with Daniel Abraham and Naren Shankar)

Season 5

• "Churn" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Winnipesaukee" (co-written with Daniel Abraham and Naren Shankar)
• "Nemesis Games" (co-written with Daniel Abraham and Naren Shankar)

Season 6

• "Azure Dragon" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Why We Fight" (co-written with Daniel Abraham)
• "Babylon's Ashes" (co-written with Daniel Abraham and Naren Shankar)

Media

• Images
• Videos

Origins of The Expanse

Dec 2, 2015; Book authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck - who use the pen name James S. A. Corey - talk about the origins of their epic book sci-fi book series.

Translating The Expanse from Page to Screen

Dec 2, 2015; Book authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck - who use the pen name James S. A. Corey - talk about working with screenwriters to bring their epic book series to screen.

Seeing the Expanse Come to Life

Nov 24, 2015; Book authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck - who use the pen name James S. A. Corey - talk about the experience of seeing their books come to life on set and on screen.

The Dangers of Acting Notes

May 28, 2015; Dominique Tipper and Wes Chatham "work" with Ty Franck

Roles

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Notes

• The original authors made a cameo appearance where they disembarked from the same shuttle before Miller from Ceres to Eros, in "Salvage" @ [27:24]. fan response on Reddit

Trivia

• During the final official "The Churn" podcast produced for SyfyExpanse in the second season, when asked what was his favorite scene to shoot, Ty stated that making the video where Dominique Tipper and Wes Chatham shoot him was his favorite.

See also

• Daniel Abraham
• James S. A. Corey

External links

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Interviews

• glixel - 'Expanse' Co-Creator Ty Franck On Writing, 'Star Citizen' and Why He Hated 'Mass Effect 3' by Miguel Lopez, Simon Cox February 1, 2017

News

• WBUR - On Point - 'The Expanse' authors on 'the importance of complicating people' (overview page for 48 min podcast episode) by Meghna Chakrabarti & Claire Donnelly September 12, 2023
• Science Friday (NPR) - How Humans Might Really Colonize the Solar System 02/17/2017