1 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dan21.jpg]] |
2 | ->''"I was in the third year of an English degree at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]], and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. A friend knew I loved comics, and suggested I approach Creator/{{Marvel}}. Next thing I knew I was on the editorial staff in London, and I started writing freelance."'' |
3 | -->(On being asked how he got started in the industry) |
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5 | Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is a British writer. He is the author of many acclaimed ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' tie-in novels, including such series as ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' and its spinoff ''Double Eagle'', ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}'', and ''Literature/{{Ravenor}}'', as well as ''Horus Rising'', ''Legion'' and ''Prospero Burns'' in the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' series and the standalone ''Literature/BrothersOfTheSnake''. He's widely considered the best author of the franchise, having been appointed to write the first and last ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' books. |
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7 | Abnett and his writing partner, Creator/AndyLanning (FanNickname: D'n'A), have also written many comics together, including a well-regarded run on an incarnation of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. They wrote the fourth ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'' and the second ''Guardians Of The Galaxy'' series and several [[BatFamilyCrossover Space Crossovers]] for Creator/MarvelComics, including ''ComicBook/AnnihilationConquest'', ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' and ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'', as well as ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' for Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. In Britain, he has contributed extensively to ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', including a large number of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' stories, and is the creator and primary writer of ''ComicBook/SinisterDexter'' and ''ComicBook/{{Kingdom}}''. He's also written alone for ''ComicBook/XMen'', and published a number of unrelated novels, including the recent {{steampunk}}/modern fantasy novel ''Triumff - Her Majesty's Hero'' and the military sci-fi novel ''Literature/{{Embedded}}''. |
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9 | Abnett has also written several comics, books, and audio plays in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse (both ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''), including the bridging part of the multi-author book ''The Story of Martha'' (set during "the year that never was" between [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]), as well as a ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' tie-in novel. |
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11 | Recently worked with Andy Lanning on Creator/IDWPublishing's CrossThrough ''Infestation'', which involves a ZombieApocalypse spreading through ''Covert Vampiric Operations'', IDW's ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' and ''ComicBook/GIJoeIDW'' continuities, ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' and the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse. Abnett and Lanning are also cooperating on a new ''Heroes For Hire'' series ongoing for Creator/MarvelComics. |
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13 | He also was one of the writers for Sega and Creative Assembly's ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', wrote dialogue for the Orcs generated by the Nemesis system in ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'', and was writer for ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000Darktide''. |
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15 | !!Works where Dan Abnett serves as primary Creator: |
16 | [[index]] |
17 | * ''Literature/BrothersOfTheSnake'' |
18 | * ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}'' |
19 | * ''Literature/{{Embedded}}'' |
20 | * ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' |
21 | * ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' series (with others) |
22 | * ''ComicBook/TheHypernaturals'' |
23 | * ''Literature/MalusDarkblade'' (with Mike Lee) |
24 | * ''Literature/{{Ravenor}}'' |
25 | * ''Literature/{{Bequin}}'' |
26 | * ''Literature/RedRain'' |
27 | * ''ComicBook/SinisterDexter'' |
28 | * ''Literature/{{Titanicus}}'' |
29 | [[/index]] |
30 | ---- |
31 | !!Additional works where Dan Abnett assisted in their creation: |
32 | [[index]] |
33 | * ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'' (''Annihilation Nova'' mini-series.) |
34 | * ''ComicBook/AnnihilationConquest'' (main series, prologue, ''Nova''-tie in.) |
35 | * ''ComicBook/{{Annihilators}}''[[/index]] |
36 | * ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', volume 4. |
37 | * Several stories from Creator/MarvelComics ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''.[[index]] |
38 | * ''ComicBook/DarkGuard''[[/index]] |
39 | * ''ComicBook/HeroesForHire'', volume 3.[[index]] |
40 | * ''ComicBook/Guardians3000'' |
41 | * ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2008'' volume 2. |
42 | * ''ComicBook/GunRunner'' |
43 | * ''ComicBook/TheInfestation'' |
44 | * ''ComicBook/{{Majestic}}'' |
45 | * ''ComicBook/MystechWars''[[/index]] |
46 | * ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', volume 3.[[index]] |
47 | * ''ComicBook/Nova2007'', volume 4. |
48 | * ''ComicBook/ResurrectionMan'' volume 1. |
49 | * ''ComicBook/ResurrectionMan2011'' volume 2. |
50 | * ''ComicBook/StarTrekEarlyVoyages'' |
51 | * ''ComicBook/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2007'' |
52 | * ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'' |
53 | * ''ComicBook/{{The VCs}}'' |
54 | * ''ComicBook/Vector13'' |
55 | * ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' (everything aside from [[/index]]''ComicBook/XMen: Kingbreakers'', ''Savage World Of Skaar'' and the two-issue ''Warriors'' mini-series.)[[index]] |
56 | * ''ComicBook/TitansHunt2015'' |
57 | * ''ComicBook/Hercules2015'' |
58 | * ''ComicBook/VampirellaTheDarkPowers''[[/index]] |
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61 | !!Tropes present in Dan Abnett's work: |
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63 | * AcePilot: In ''Double Eagle'', every single protagonist is one of these. Oskar Viltry is a rare bomber-flying version. [[spoiler:Though later he switches to fighters.]] |
64 | * BaseOnWheels: The Chaos airbases in ''Double Eagle'' are over a mile long, and mobile. |
65 | * BugWar: ''Kingdom'' follows a group of genetically modified dogs as the fight giant praying mantises who have wiped out most of humanity. |
66 | * FunWithAcronyms: His ''Doctor Who'' strips feature a group called “Foreign Hazard Duty”, which drew its acronym from an old slang term for a hangover. |
67 | * HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: ''Hypernaturals'' is set in the year 100 AQ (Anno Quantinuum), a century after TheSingularity. |
68 | * SwissArmyWeapon: ''Triumff'' has a literal Swiss Army Weapon -- the ''couteau suisse'', a hex-powered weapon which, at the touch of a (somewhat unreliable) button, will manifest a variety of fighting blades (usually a rapier, but on one occasion, a cutlass), as well as, when the mood takes it, traditional Swiss Army Knife tools, including a veg peeler. |
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