George
R
R Martin
George R.R. Martin
was born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was
Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret
Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet
Martin Patten. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High
School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other
neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he
became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to
write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's
first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: "The Hero," sold to
Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.
In 1970 Martin
received a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. He went on to complete a M.S. in
Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.
As a conscientious
objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached
to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. He also directed chess
tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1973-1976, and
was a Journalism instructor at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, from
1976-1978. He wrote part-time throughout the 1970s while working as a
VISTA Volunteer, chess director, and teacher. In 1975 he married Gale
Burnick. They divorced in 1979, with no children. Martin became a
full-time writer in 1979. He was writer-in-residence at Clarke College
from 1978-79.
Moving on to
Hollywood, Martin signed on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS
Television in 1986.
In 1987 Martin became
an Executive Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. In 1988
he became a Producer for Beauty and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to
Co-Supervising Producer. He was Executive Producer for Doorways, a
pilot which he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed
during 1992-93.
Martin's present home
is Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a member of Science Fiction &
Fantasy Writers of America (he was South-Central Regional Director
1977-1979, and Vice President 1996-1998), and of Writers' Guild of
America, West.
A Song of Ice and
Fire
Long
ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons
out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a
lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen
wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are
massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the
conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding
as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a
distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords
and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come
together in a time of grim omens.
Here
an enigmatic band of
warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings
carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his
sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the
most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and
betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and
their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win
that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
A Clash of Kings
A
comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great
leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an
age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from
the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of
Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a
divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to
stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in
which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the
night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the
mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men
descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside.
Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder,
victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest
steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land
trembles.
A Storm of Swords
Of
the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in
disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances
are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron
Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most
bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim
of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young
Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of
Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as
they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, the seat of the Iron
Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is
the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still
left in the world....
But
as opposing forces maneuver for the
final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the
outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of
mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated
corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the
balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a
veritable storm of swords. . .
A Feast for Crows
It
seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and
fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one
another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the
monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing.
Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his
siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren
soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne
still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield
them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has
burned itself out.
But
as in the aftermath of any climactic
struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and
carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and
fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven
Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring
new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising
faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from
an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the
challenges ahead.
It
is a time when the wise and the
ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the
power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie
before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and
sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their
fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the
guests—but only a few are the survivors.
A Dance With
Dragons
Addtional Cover Art
A Game of Thrones
Stephen Youll
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A Game of Thrones
Jim Burns
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A Clash of
Kings
Jim Burns
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A Storm of Swords
Jim Burns
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A Storm of Swords
Martina Pilcerova
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Novels
Dying of the Light
Tom Kidd
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Windhaven
w/Lisa Tuttle
Stephen Youll
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Fevre
Dream
Danny
Flynn |
The Armageddon Rag
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Dying
of the Light
A
whisperjewel summoned him to Worlorn, and a love he thought he’d
lost. But Worlorn isn’t the world Dirk t’Larien imagined, and Gwen
Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew. She is bound to another
man, and to a dying planet that is trapped in twilight, forever falling
toward night. Amid this bleak landscape is a violent clash of cultures
in which there is no code of honor—and the hunter and the hunted are
often interchangeable.
Caught
up in a dangerous triangle, Gwen
is in need of Dirk’s protection, and he will do anything to keep her
safe, even if it means challenging the barbaric man who has claimed
her—and his cunning cohort. But an impenetrable veil of secrecy
surrounds them all, and it’s becoming impossible for Dirk to
distinguish between his allies and his enemies. While each will fight
to stay alive, one is waiting for escape, one for revenge, and another
for a brutal, untimely demise.
Windhaven w/Lisa
Tuttle
Windhaven,
the descendants of long-ago stranded star sailors live on
widely separated islands. Lacking metals to sustain industrial
technology, the inhabitants depend on flyers, humans with wings made
from the original star sail, to bring news and carry messages, uniting
far-flung communities. Maris, a land-bound female adopted into a flyer
family, loves to fly. But when her stepbrother, Coll, turns 13, he
stands as first-born to inherit the irreplaceable wings, even as he
dreams of being a traveling singer instead. When Maris tries to resolve
both quandaries by stealing the wings, she challenges not only flyer
law but the basic assumptions of Windhaven society. Establishing
competitions to win wings and training academies for students from
non-flyer families, and defending a "made" flyer accused of treason for
stopping a war, Maris faces the lifelong consequences of talent come
into conflict with privilege.
Fevre
Dream
When
struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of
partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss.
But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is
certain. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped
out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he
won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons
for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be
none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious
his actions may prove.
Marsh
meant to turn down York’s offer. It was too full of secrets that
spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that
could make history crushed his resolve—coupled with the terrible force
of York’s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new
sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission
both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic
nightmare...and mankind’s most impossible dream.
Here
is the
spellbinding tale of a vampire’s quest to unite his race with humanity,
of a garrulous riverman’s dream of immortality, and of the undying
legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river.
The Armadgeddon
Rag
Onetime
underground journalist Sandy Blair has traveled far from his
radical roots in the ’60s—until the bizarre and brutal murder of a
millionaire rock promoter draws him back. As Sandy sets out to
investigate the crime, he finds himself on a magical mystery tour of
the pent-up passions of his generation. For a new messiah has
resurrected the once legendary rock band Nazgûl—but with an
apocalyptic
new beat that is a requiem of demonism, mind control, and death only
Sandy may be able to change in time. . . .
Collections
A Song For Lya
Patrick Woodroffe
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Songs of Stars and Shadows
David Cox Studios
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Sandkings
Dawn Wilson
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Nightflyers
James Warhola
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Songs the Dead Men Sing
Paul Sonju
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Tuf Voyaging
David Wilson
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Portraits of his Children
Paul Chadwick
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Quartet
Charles Vess
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Custer's Last Jump
Frank Kelly Freas
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GRRM: A Retrospective
Phil Parks?
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Short Stories Volume I
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Starlady/Fast-Friend
Martina Pilcerova
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A Song For Lya
Songs
of Stars
and Shadows
This Tower of Ashes
And Seven Times Never Kill Man
The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr
Night of the Vampyres
Men of Greywater Station w/Howard Waldrop
The Runners
Patrick Henry, Jupiter and the little red brick Spaceship
Night Shift
Sandkings
Sandkings
The Way of Cross and Dragon
Bitterblooms
Starlady
The Stone City
In the House of the Worm
Fast-Friend
Nightflyers
Nightflyers
Override
Weekend in a War Zone
And Seven Times Never Kill Man
"And
Seven Times Never Kill Man"
John
Schoenherr
Analog, July 1975
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Nor the Many-Coloured Fires of a StarRing
A Song For Lya
Songs
the
Dead Men Sing
The Monkey Treatment
. . . for a single yesterday
The Needle Men
Meathouse Man
Sandkings
Nightflyers
Remembering Melody
Tuf Voyaging
Haviland Tuf is an honest
space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the
worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner
of the last seedship of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps?
Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human
space is in good hands�hands which now control cellular material for
thousands of outlandish creatures.
With his unique equipment, Tuf is set to tackle the problems human
settlers have created in colonizing far-flung worlds: hosts of hostile
monsters, a population hooked on procreation, a dictator who unleashes
plagues to get his own way�and in every case the only thing that stands
between the colonists and disaster is Tuf's ingenuity�and his
reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues...
The Plague Star
Loaves and Fishes
Guardians
Second Helpings
A Beast for Norn
Call him Moses
Manna From Heaven
Portraits
of his
Children
A Sketch of their Father
With Morning Comes Mistfall
The Second Kind of Loneliness
The Second Kind of
Loneliness
Frank Kelly Freas
Analog, December 1972
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The Last Super Bowl
The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr
The Ice Dragon
In the Lost Lands
Unsound Variations
Closing Time
Under Siege
The Glass Flower
Portraits of His Children
Quartet
Black and White and Red all
over
The Skin Trade
Starport
Blood of the Dragon
"Blood of the Dragon"
Paul Youll
Asimov's, July 1996
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Custer's
Last Jump
GRRM:
A
Retrospective
One: A Four-Colour
Fanboy
Only kids are afraid of the dark
The Fortress
And Death His Legacy
Two: The Filthy Pro
The Hero
The Exit to San Breta
The Second Kind of Loneliness
With Morning Come Mistfall
Three: The Light of Distant Stars
A Song for Lya
This Tower of Ashes
And Seven Times Never Kill Man
The Stone City
Bittler Blooms
The Way of Cross and Dragon
Four: The Heirs of Turtle Castle
The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr
The Ice Dragon
In the Lost Lands
Five: Hybrids and Horrors
Meathouse Man
Remembering Melody
Sandkings
Nightflyers
The Monkey Treatment
The Pear-Shaped Man
Six: A Taste of Tuf
A Beast for Norn
Guardians
Seven: The Siren Song of Hollywood
The Twighlight Zone: The Roads Less Travelled
Doorway
Eight: Doing the Wildcard Shuffle
Shell Games
From the Journal of Xavier Desmond
Nine: The Heart in Conflict
Under Siege
The Skin Trade
Unsound Variations
The Glass Flower
The Hedge Knight
Portraits of his Children
Short
Stories Volume I
Starlady
"Path of the Dragon"
Bob Eggleton
Asimov's December 2000
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