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Subject: Author Lists: George R. R. Martin
From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM
Date: 20 Jun 89 07:29:30 GMT




I've always felt that George R. R. Martin excells in the short story.  He's
written a couple of good novels (I liked "Fevre Dream" and "The Armageddon
Rag"), but he's written several really great short stories.  "A Song for
Lya", "The Way of Cross and Dragon" and "Sandkings" are really great and I
highly recommend them.  In other fields, he's currently some high
muckey-muck (story editor?) in the TV series "Beauty and the Beast".  He's
also in charge of (coordinator is probably a better term than editor) in
the best shared world anthology going: "Wild Cards".  It deals with the
effects of having comic-book-like heros in the real world.  The mechanism
is an alien virus that kills 90% of it's victims, gives horrible changes to
9% (the Jokers) and gives super-hero powers to 1% (the Aces).  The first
book was a wonderful introduction into the world.  The second book was the
weakest in the series, but it picked up from there.  I'm really looking
forward to book six (which will take place in the 1988 Democratic
Presidential Convention, and lots of changes are rumored to take place).

[A] == Anthology. (A bunch of stories written by other people)
[C] == Short Story Collection.

/John

arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com

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Martin, George R[aymond] R[ichard] [U.S.A., 9/20/1948- ]
    [Hugo 1975, 1980, 1980 & Nebula 1979, 1985]
    Wild Cards:
        Wild Card [1987] [A]
        Aces High [1987] [A]
        Jokers Wild [1987] [A]
        Aces Abroad [1988] [A]
        Down and Dirty [1988] [A]
    A Song for Lya and Other Stories [1976] [C]
    Dying of the Light [1977]
    Songs of Stars and Shadows [1977] [C]
    SandKings [1981] [C]
    Fevre Dream [1982]
    The Armageddon Rag [1983]
    Songs the Dead Men Sing [1983] [C]
    Nightflyers [1985] [C]
    Tuf Voyaging [1986] [C]
    Portraits of His Children [1987] [C]
Martin, George R. R. & Tuttle, Lisa
    Windhaven [1981]