Line #3 Creator/DanAbnett


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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]]
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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.
47	* ''Comicbook/{{Nova}}'', volume 4.[[index]]
48	* ''Comicbook/ResurrectionMan'', volumes 1 and 2.
49	* ''ComicBook/StarTrekEarlyVoyages''
50	* ''ComicBook/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2007''
51	* ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative''
52	* ''ComicBook/{{The VCs}}''
53	* ''ComicBook/Vector13''
54	* ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' (everything aside from [[/index]]''ComicBook/XMen: Kingbreakers'', ''Savage World Of Skaar'' and the two-issue ''Warriors'' mini-series.)[[index]]
55	* ''ComicBook/TitansHunt2015''
56	* ''ComicBook/Hercules2015''
57	* ''ComicBook/VampirellaTheDarkPowers''[[/index]]
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60	!!Tropes present in Dan Abnett's work:
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62	* 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.]]
63	* BaseOnWheels: The Chaos airbases in ''Double Eagle'' are over a mile long, and mobile.
64	* BugWar: ''Kingdom'' follows a group of genetically modified dogs as the fight giant praying mantises who have wiped out most of humanity.
65	* FunWithAcronyms: His ''Doctor Who'' strips feature a group called “Foreign Hazard Duty”, which drew its acronym from an old slang term for a hangover.
66	* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: ''Hypernaturals'' is set in the year 100 AQ (Anno Quantinuum), a century after TheSingularity.
67	* 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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