Livesuit is first novella in the The Captive's War series by James S.A. Corey and was first published on October 1, 2024. Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's b...

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Could Prime Video's 'The Captive's War' become the next great sci-fi saga? With a talented team and timely themes, anticipation is high! #SciFi #TheCaptivesWar #BattlestarGalactica

Could Prime Video's 'The Captive's War' become the next great sci-fi saga? With a talented team and timely themes, anticipation is high! #SciFi #TheCaptivesWar #BattlestarGalactica

Get ready for a sci-fi showdown! Prime Video's The Captive's War takes on HBO's Dune: Prophecy. Who will reign supreme? #SciFi #StreamingWars #TheCaptivesWar

Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham, the sci-fi writing duo known as James S.A. Corey, already know what it’s like to see one of their works adapted for the screen. _The Expanse_, which started out at Syfy and then jumped to Prime Video, ran for six seasons and explored a somewhat compressed (especially at the end there) take on the nine-part Corey book series. So they are well aware of the challenges that await when _The Captive’s War_ , based on their new trilogy, begins its own journey to becoming an Amazon series. _Really big_ challenges, in fact, as the authors—who are producing the show—admitted in a new interview with Polygon. “We made it so freaking hard to adapt into a TV show,” Abraham said. “ _The Captive’s War_ has a lot of things that would need a lot of work before they turn it into a screenplay: a lot of interiority in the characters, a lot of amazing, spectacular aliens. All of that stuff is challenging. And yeah, we just leaned right into it.” Franck added that despite the success of _The Expanse_ , the duo didn’t have a TV show on the brain when they started writing their latest series, which opened with 2024’s _The Mercy of Gods_. “We were either done or mostly done with the first book before we had the discussions about adaptation,” he explained. “So we weren’t writing a book and a screenplay of that book in parallel. So far, we’ve never done that.” If you’re hoping _The Captive’s War_ might make its way to screens soon, that doesn’t seem like it’ll be the case. The authors told Polygon they’re still in the _very_ earliest stages of that process. Franck likened adaptations to “a million tiny little blocks stacked on top of each other,” and “at this point, I think we’ve stacked the third block.” Since _The Mercy of the Gods_ arrived in 2024, _The Captive’s War_ series has also seen the publication of the standalone novella _Livesuit_ (also in 2024) and _The Faith of Beasts_ in April 2026. The third novel does not yet have an announced title or release date. > Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

'The Captive's War' has already been picked up for adaptation, but the writing duo known as James S.A. Corey is aware it won't be an easy task.

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