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These stories are all over the place theme-wise, but they still have the GRRM style and panache that you probably love. Each one is unique and enjoyable in its own way, and while I have a few favorites, there really wasn't a single one that I could call boring. There's less incest and more lasers on average than Song of Ice and Fire, but I got used to that about halfway through.
Before he bitch-slapped every fantasy author since Tolkien with Game of Thrones, George Martin was already beating up on sci-fi authors with mind-blowing, superbly written, highly imaginative short stories with a twist in every tale. Amazingly, Martin is as good with the short story as he is with the door-stopper! This was harder for me, as the majority of the book I struggled feigning interest in the characters put in front of me. I, you have a clear case of short stories. You're stuck with the characters for a lot longer, and if it's not your bag, it's agony to push through.
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Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. One person found this helpful. This is an exceptional collection. To start with, the story average is 3. He also throws in a couple of screenplays, which look ok to me, but I know nothing about those, really.
It also has a cool orange cover. We need more orange books I think. Also note the cute coat of arms, and its quartering to represent the genres that he loves and works in. A fair bit of work has gone in to the book as far as introducing the material goes, and there is also quite a bit of autobiographical discussion, in the discussion sections that precede each of the nine sections that the book is broken down into, going from his childhood, right up until the later stories. He talks about growing up, loving comics still 'bleeds four colour ink' he says, then discovering paperbacks, Heinlein, Howard, Tolkien, etc.
He likes his football, and given all the mentions of SF convention parties, is probably not averse to a beer. My kind of guy. Science fiction, fantasy and horror, it is all good to him, and he is good at all of it. There is also a complete bibliography up until the end of Although this came out now, apparently Subterranean published a collectable fancy version in , hence the bibliography date. When this book started to appear he may not have had a lot more to report, either, working mostly on his fat fantasies and not short stories, or getting Wild Cards going again.
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All in all, I am really happy Gollancz has decided to bring this great book out for the rest of us normal mortal readers and made it accessible. The Song and Ice of Fire books don't appeal to me at all, having tried one and couldn't get through it, so happily none of that sort of thing is here. He can write all of those he wants though, if he can keep Wild Cards ticking over. However, there is a 'prequel' story of sorts from this world set a far while in the past, The Hedge Knight, which I thought was rather good.
Apart from the brutally realistic type of violence, this has a much more T. White feel in some of it, rather than say, Nigel Tranter on crank. He also picks Shell Games from Wild Cards, one of the best stories from that series of books, too.
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Anyway, a brilliant collection. Five stars, no doubt about it. The Fortress - George R. The Hero - George R. A Song for Lya - George R. This Tower of Ashes - George R. The Stone City - George R. Bitterblooms - George R. The Ice Dragon - George R. In the Lost Lands - George R. Meathouse Man - George R. Works by George R. Four Tales from the Crossroads Dreamsongs: Beauty and the Beast Doorways. Retrieved from " https: Pages to import images to Wikidata.
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