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George R.R. Martin

Dreamsongs

A Storm of Swords: Steel & Snow

About the Author

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)

Dreamsongs
George R.R. Martin is one of the most exciting storytellers of our time, a stylish, elegant writer who combines riveting plots with superb characterisation. He writes with equal verve and fervour about werewolves as he does spaceships, wizards and vampires, and he has won virtually every award in the fields of fantasy literature. His epic ongoing saga A Song of Ice and Fire has almost redefined fantasy for a whole new generation, and has won him a vast, devoted audience.
This massive collection features the very best of George R.R. Martin’s short fiction from the last thirtysome years, a dazzling array of stories and screenplays ranging from the novella The Hedge Knight, set in the world of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Hugo and Nebula-Award-winning The Sandkings, to the Hugo-Award-winning A Song for Lya, the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Pear-Shaped Man, and the World Fantasy Award-winning The Skin Trade. Dreamsongs is a treasure chest of stories, an indispensable volume, not just for all George R.R. Martin fans, but essential reading for an reader of fantastic literature.
‘The American Tolkien’ Time
‘Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best’ Time
‘I always expect the best from George R R Martin, and he always delivers’ Robert Jordan

First British Edition Voyager (2000)

Paperback - Harpercollins (2001)

A Storm of Swords: Steel & Snow
Book Three of A Song Of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin’s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire, the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings, continues with A Storm of Swords. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage.
The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.
The men of the Night's Watch are ready for the coming of the great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildings twenty thousand strong - hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness - poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. But Robb's defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark's enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei's ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery.
And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband's funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.
'Grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant' Robert Jordan
'George R.R. Martin subverts the clichés of epic fantasy to give us another superb book' Locus
'Colossal, staggering… Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of tile Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world ... The writing is always powerful ... this looks set to become one of the greats of fantasy literature' SFX
‘Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads ... Its ambition: to construct tile Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias' Guardian
'An extraordinarily rich novel . . . The book stands out from similar work by virtue of its superbly developed characters, accomplished prose and sheer bloody-mindedness’ Publishers Weeky

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)

Fevre Dream
The Fevre Dream was one of the finest steamboats ever built, the pride of its captain, Abner Marsh. But as it sails the length of the river, the rumours begin about Marsh's enigmatic partner, Joshua York. He eats only at midnight, and in the company of friends - who are never seen during daylight hours; and a trail of terrible deeds along the shores follows in the Fevre Dream’s wake.
George R.R. Martin's riveting and wonderfully atmospheric tale of vampires in nineteenth-century America catapulted him into the forefront of contemporary fantasy writers when first published in 1982.
'Will delight fans of both Stephen King and Mark Twain. Darkly romantic, chilling and rousing by turns, moody and memorable. A thundering success.' Roger Zelazny
'The milieu is arresting, the pace hell-bent, the characters vibrant. Martin’s tale is splendid and then some. Fevre Dream runs red with original, high adventure' Harlan Ellison

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Windhaven
With Lisa Tuttle
Windhaven is a planet of stormy, windswept isles; the flyers are revered as the one link between these lonely islands. The land-bound can only watch and envy - until Maris, land-born, but determined to seek her place amongst the Elite, defies the law and takes to the sky on borrowed wings. Her extraordinary powers of flight are unsurpassed, but birth, not expertise, has always decided the right to flight. Maris’s struggle to win her own wings propels Windhaven towards a crisis that no one, flyer or land-bound, -could ever have foreseen.
‘A real delight - I don’t think I’ve read more than one or two books this year which come within a mile of it’ Marion Zimmer Bradley
‘Martin and Tuttle’s strong feelings for their characters makes Windhaven fly’ Stephen R. Donaldson

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Dying of the Light
A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t’Larien across space and beyond the Tempter’s Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival ice planet. Worlorn is slowly drifting through twilight to neverending night; as the planet sinks into darkness, so its inhabitants face annihilation. Seven years ago, on Avalon, Gwen was Dirk’s lover, his Guinevere; now she wears the jade-and-silver bond of Jaantony Riv Wolf high-lronjade Vikary, a barbarian visionary, an outcast from his own people for his acts of violence.
And Garse Janacek, Jann’s *teyn*, his shieldmate, is also bound to Gwen - in hatred. Dirk, a rogue and a wanderer, is called to be saviour of the three who are bonded together in love and hate. But in breaking their triangle, he could lose all …
‘George R.R. Martin has the voice of the poet and a mind like a steel trap’ Algis Budrys
‘Wonderful, rich-tapestried’ A.E. van Vogt
‘The best pure storyteller in the field’ Science Fiction Review
'I always expect the best from George R.R.Martin and he always delivers' Robert Jordan

About The Author
George R. R. Martin was born in 1948 in New Jersey and went to university in Chicago. He published his first sf story, `The Hero', in 1971 and he rapidly established himself as a writer of rare quality, winning three Hugos, two Nebulas and the Bram Stoker Award. He spent ten years in Hollywood, writing screenplays and serving as story editor on The Twilight Zone and as writer/producer on Beauty and the Beast, before beginning his majestic fantasy series A Song o f Ice and Fire, which so far includes A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

A Dance with Dragons ( 2008)

Dreamsongs (Gollancz Pbk, 2007)

A Feast for Crows ( 2005)

The Hedge Knight ( 2004)

A Storm of Swords: Steel & Snow (Voyager, 2000) Harpercollins Pbk Jun 01

Fevre Dream ( 1982) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jan 01

Windhaven ( 1981) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Nov 00

Dying of the Light ( 1977) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Dec 00