George R. R.

Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin[1] (born George
Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), often referred
to as GRRM,[2] is an American novelist and short story
writer in the fantasy, horror, and science ction genres, a
screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known
for A Song of Ice and Fire, his international bestselling
series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones.

hope to go.[10][11]
The young Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic
readings included. He also wrote stories about a mythical
kingdom populated by his pet turtles; the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he nally decided they were
killing each other o in sinister plots.[12]

Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and then

later Marist High School. While there he became an avid
comic-book fan, developing a strong interest in the innovative superheroes being published by Marvel Comics[13]
A letter Martin wrote to the editor of Fantastic Four was
printed in issue No. 20 (Nov 1963); it was the rst of
many sent, e.g., FF #32, #34, and others from his familys
home at 35 E. First Street, Bayonne, NJ. Fans who read
his letters then wrote him letters in turn, and through such
contacts, Martin joined the edgling comics fandom of
1 Early life
the era, writing ction for various fanzines;[14] he was the
rst to register for an early comic book convention held
George Raymond Martin (he later adopted the in New York in 1964.[15] In 1965, Martin won comic fanconrmation name Richard, at the age of 13)[6] doms Alley Award for his prose superhero story Powwas born on September 20, 1948,[7] in Bayonne, New erman vs. The Blue Barrier, the rst of many awards he
Jersey,[8] the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins would go on to win for his ction.
Martin and his wife Margaret Brady Martin. He has two
In 1970, Martin earned a B.S. in Journalism from
younger sisters, Darleen and Janet. Martins father was
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating
of half Italian descent, while his mother was of half Irish
summa cum laude; he went on to complete his M.S. in
ancestry;[9] he also has German, English, and French
Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern. Eligible for
roots.
the draft during the Vietnam War, to which he objected,
The family rst lived in a house on Broadway, belonging Martin applied for and obtained conscientious-objector
to Martins great-grandmother. In 1953, they moved to a status;[16] he instead did alternative service work for two
federal housing project near the Bayonne docks. During years (19721974) as a VISTA volunteer, attached to the
Martins childhood, his world consisted predominantly of Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. An expert
First Street to Fifth Street, between his grade school chess player, he also directed chess tournaments for the
and his home; this limited world made him want to travel Continental Chess Association from 1973 to 1976.
and experience other places, but the only way of doing so
In the mid-1970s, Martin met English professor George
was through his imagination, so he became a voracious
Guthridge from Dubuque, Iowa, at a science ction conreader.
vention in Milwaukee. Martin persuaded Guthridge (who
When Martins family moved to a larger apartment after confesses that at that time he despised science ction and
his sister was born, he also had a view of the waters of fantasy) not only to give speculative ction a second look,
the Kill van Kull, where freighters and oil tankers ying but to write in the eld himself. (Guthridge has since
ags from distant countries were entering and leaving Port been a nalist for the Hugo Award and twice for the
Newark. He had an encyclopedia with a list of ags, and Nebula Award for science ction and fantasy. In 1998,
when using it to gure out where the ships came from, he won a Bram Stoker Award for best horror novel.)
he would nd himself dreaming of traveling to these reIn turn, Guthridge helped Martin nd a job at Clarke
mote locations. After the sun went down, the lights from
University (then Clarke College). Martin wasn't makStaten Island would shine across the water, which in his
ing enough money to stay alive, from writing and the
imagination was Shangri-La and "Shanghai and Paris,
chess tournaments, says Guthridge.[17] From 1976 to
Timbuctoo and Kalamazoo, Marsport and Trantor, and
1978, Martin was an English and journalism instructor
all the other places that I'd never been and could never
Martin serves as the series co-executive producer, while
also scripting four episodes of the series. In 2005,
Lev Grossman of Time called Martin the American
Tolkien",[3] and the magazine later named him one of the
2011 Time 100, a list of the most inuential people in
the world.[4][5]

CAREER

at Clarke, and he became Writer In Residence at the col- the Zic Zak corporation, Network 23s primary sponsor).
lege from 1978 to 1979.
Before his scripts could go into production, however, the
While he enjoyed teaching, the sudden death of friend ABC show was cancelled in the middle of its second seaand fellow author Tom Reamy, in the fall of 1977, made son. Martin was then hired as a writer-producer on the
Martin reevaluate his own life, and he eventually decided new dramatic fantasy series Beauty and the Beast; in 1989
co-supervising producer and wrote
to try to become a full-time writer. He resigned from his he became the shows
[22]
14
of
its
episodes.
job, and being tired of the hard winters in Dubuque, he
moved to Santa Fe in 1979.[18]

Career

Martin began selling science ction short stories professionally in 1970, at age 21. His rst sale was The Hero,
sold to Galaxy magazine and published in its February
1971 issue; other sales soon followed. His rst story to
be nominated for the Hugo Award[19] and Nebula Awards
was "With Morning Comes Mistfall", published in 1973
in Analog magazine. A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), Martin
became the organizations Southwest Regional Director
from 1977 to 1979; he served as its vice-president from
1996 to 1998.
In 1976, for Kansas Citys MidAmeriCon, the 34th World
Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), Martin and his
friend and fellow writer-editor Gardner Dozois conceived
of and organized the rst Hugo Losers Party for the
benet of all past and present Hugo-losing writers, their
friends and families, the evening following the conventions Hugo Awards ceremony. Martin was nominated for
two Hugos that year but lost both awards, for the novelette "...and Seven Times Never Kill Man and the novella
The Storms of Windhaven, co-written with Lisa Tuttle.[20]
The Hugo Losers Party became an annual Worldcon
event thereafter, and its formal title eventually changed
to something a bit more politically correct as both its size
and prestige grew.

During this same period, Martin continued working in

print media as a book-series editor, this time overseeing the development of the multi-author Wild Cards book
series, which takes place in a shared universe in which
a small slice of postWorld War II humanity gains superpowers after the release of an alien-engineered virus;
new titles are still being published in the ongoing series
from Tor Books. In Second Person Martin gives a personal account of the close-knit role-playing game (RPG)
culture that gave rise to his Wild Cards shared-world
anthologies.[23] An important element in the creation of
the multiple author series was a campaign of Chaosium's
role-playing game Superworld (1983), that Martin ran
in Albuquerque.[24] Martins own contributions to Wild
Cards have included Thomas Tudbury, "The Great and
Powerful Turtle", a powerful psychokinetic whose ying
shell consisted of an armored VW Beetle. As of June
2011, 21 Wild Cards volumes had been published in the
series; earlier that same year, Martin signed the contract
for the 22nd volume, Low Ball (2014), published by Tor
Books. In early 2012, Martin signed another Tor contract
for the 23rd Wild Cards volume, High Stakes.
While he was making a satisfactory living in Hollywood,
he did not feel fullled given that so few of the projects
he worked on ever went into production; No amount
of money can really take the place of... you want your
stu to be read. You want an audience and four guys
in an executive oce suite at ABC or Columbia is not
adequate.[25]

Martins novella, Nightyers (1980), was adapted into an

eponymous 1987 feature lm; he was unhappy about havAlthough Martin often writes fantasy or horror, a number ing to cut plot elements for the screenplays scenario in
of his earlier works are science ction tales occurring in a order to accommodate the lms small budget.[26]
loosely dened future history, known informally as The
Thousand Worlds or The Manrealm. He has also written at least one piece of political-military ction, Night 2.1 A Song of Ice and Fire
of the Vampyres, collected in Harry Turtledove's anthology The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century Main article: A Song of Ice and Fire
(2001).[21]
In 1991, Martin briey returned to writing novels and
The unexpected commercial failure of Martins fourth
book, The Armageddon Rag (1983), essentially destroyed my career as a novelist at the time, he recalled.
However, that failure led him to seek a career in television [12] after a Hollywood option on that novel led to
his being hired, rst as a sta writer and then as an Executive Story Consultant, for the revival of the Twilight
Zone. After the CBS series was cancelled, Martin migrated over to the already-underway satirical science ction series Max Headroom. He worked on scripts and created the shows Ped Xing character (the president of

began what would eventually turn into his epic fantasy

series: A Song of Ice and Fire, which was inspired by
the Wars of the Roses and Ivanhoe. It is currently intended to comprise seven volumes. The rst, A Game of
Thrones, was published in 1996. In November 2005, A
Feast for Crows, the fourth novel in this series, became
The New York Times No. 1 Bestseller and also achieved
No. 1 ranking on The Wall Street Journal bestseller list.
In addition, in September 2006, A Feast for Crows was
nominated for both a Quill Award and the British Fantasy Award.[27] The fth book, A Dance with Dragons,

3
2012 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form,
at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention,
in Chicago, IL; Martin took home one of the three Hugo
Award trophies awarded in that collaborative category,
the other two going to Game of Thrones showrunners
David Benio and D.B. Weiss.

Teaching at Clarion West, 1998

was published July 12, 2011, and quickly became an international bestseller, including achieving a No. 1 spot
on the New York Times Bestseller List and many others;
it remained on the New York Times list for 88 weeks. The
series has received praise from authors, readers, and critics alike. In 2012, A Dance With Dragons made the nal ballot for science ction and fantasys Hugo Award,
World Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and the British
Fantasy Award; the novel went on to win the Locus Poll
Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Two more novels are
planned and still being written in the Ice and Fire series:
The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.

2.2

The second season, based on the second Ice and Fire

novel A Clash of Kings, began airing on HBO in the
U.S. April 1, 2012; the second season was nominated
for 12 Emmy Awards, including another Supporting Actor nomination for Dinklage. It went on to win six of
those Emmys in the Technical Arts categories, which
were awarded the week before the regular televised 2012
awards show. The second season episode "Blackwater",
written by George R.R. Martin, was nominated the following year for the 2013 Hugo Award in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category; that episode
went on to win the Hugo Award at LoneStarCon 3, the
71st World Science Fiction Convention, in San Antonio,
Texas. In addition to Martin, showrunners Benio and
Weiss (who contributed several scenes to the nal screenplay) and episode director Neil Marshal (who expanded
the scope of the episode on set) received Hugo statuettes.

3 Themes

HBO series production

For more details on this topic, see Game of Thrones.

HBO Productions purchased the television rights for the
entire A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2007 and began airing the fantasy series on their U. S. premium cable channel April 17, 2011. Titled Game of Thrones, it ran weekly
for ten episodes, each approximately an hour long.[28]
Although busy completing A Dance With Dragons and
other projects, George R. R. Martin was heavily involved
in the production of the television series adaptation of
his books. Martins involvement included the selection
of a production team and participation in scriptwriting;
the opening credits list him as a co-executive producer of
the series. The series was renewed shortly after the rst
episode aired.
The rst season was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards,
ultimately winning two
one for its opening title credits

George R. R. Martin in July 2013

one for Peter Dinklage as Best Supporting Actor.

Martins work has been described by the Los Angeles

Times as having complex story lines, fascinating characters, great dialogue, perfect pacing.[29] While the New
York Times sees it as fantasy for grown ups,[30] others
feel it is dark and cynical.[31] His rst novel, Dying of the
Light, set the tone for some of his future work; it unfolds

The rst season was also nominated for a 2012 Hugo

Award, fantasy and science ctions oldest award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society each year
at the annual Worldcon; the show went on to win the

4
on a mostly abandoned planet that is slowly becoming uninhabitable as it moves away from its sun. This story has a
strong sense of melancholy. His characters are often unhappy or, at least, unsatised, in many cases holding on
to idealisms in spite of an otherwise chaotic and ruthless
world, in many cases troubled by their own self-seeking
or violent actions, even as they undertake them. Many
have elements of tragic heroes or antiheroes in them; reviewer T. M. Wagner writes, Let it never be said Martin
doesn't share Shakespeares fondness for the senselessly
tragic.[32]
The overall gloominess of A Song of Ice and Fire can be
an obstacle for some readers; the Inchoatus Group writes,
If this absence of joy is going to trouble you, or you're
looking for something more arming, then you should
probably seek elsewhere.[33] For many fans, however, it
is precisely this level of realness and completeness,
including many characters imperfections, moral/ethical
ambiguity, and consequential plot twists (often sudden),
that is endearing about Martins work and keeps the series story arcs compelling enough to keep following despite its sheer brutality and intricately messy/interwoven
plotlines; as TM Wagner points out, Theres great
tragedy here, but theres also excitement, humor, heroism even in weaklings, nobility even in villains, and, now
and then, a taste of justice after all. Its a rare gift when a
writer can invest his story with that much humanity.[32]
Martins characters are multifaceted, each with intricate pasts, aspirations, and ambitions. Publishers Weekly
writes of his ongoing epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire,
The complexity of characters such as Daenerys, Arya
and the Kingslayer will keep readers turning even the vast
number of pages contained in this volume, for the author, like Tolkien or Jordan, makes us care about their
fates.[34] Misfortune, injury, and death (including false
death and reanimation) often befall major or minor characters, no matter how attached the reader has become.
Martin has described his penchant for killing o important characters as being necessary for the storys depth:
when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid
to turn the page, (so) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.[35]
In distinguishing his work from others, Martin makes
a point of emphasizing realism and plausible social dynamics above an over-reliance on magic and a simplistic "good versus evil" dichotomy, which contemporary
fantasy writing is often criticized for. Notably, Martins
work makes a sharp departure from the prevalent heroic
knights and chivalry schema that has become a mainstay
in fantasy as derived from the Lord of the Rings series
of J.R.R. Tolkien. He specically critiques the oversimplication of Tolkiens themes and devices by imitators
in ways that he has humorously described as Disneyland
Middle Ages[36] that gloss over or even ignore major differences between medieval and modern societies, particularly social structures, ways of living, and political arrangements. Martin has been described as the American

RELATIONSHIP WITH FANS

Tolkien by literary critics.[37] While Martin nds inspiration in Tolkiens legacy,[38] he aims to go beyond what he
sees as Tolkiens medieval philosophy of if the king
was a good man, the land would prosper to delve into
the complexities, ambiguities, and vagaries of real-life
power: We look at real history and its not that simple
... Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise
king.[39]
In fact, the author makes a point of grounding his work
on a foundation of historical ction, which he channels to
evoke important social and political elements of primarily
the European medieval era that dier markedly from elements of modern times, including the multigenerational,
rigid, and often brutally consequential nature of the hierarchical class system of feudal societies[40] that is in many
cases overlooked in fantasy writing. Even as A Song of
Ice and Fire is a fantasy series that employs magic and
the surreal as central to the genre, Martin is keen to ensure that magic is merely one element of many that moves
his work forward,[41] not a generic deus ex machina that
is itself the focus of his stories, something he has been
very conscious about since reading Tolkien; If you look
at The Lord of the Rings, what strikes you, it certainly
struck me, is that although the world is infused with this
great sense of magic, there is very little onstage magic.
So you have a sense of magic, but its kept under very
tight control, and I really took that to heart when I was
starting my own series.[42] Martins ultimate aim is an
exploration of the internal conicts that dene the human
condition, which, in deriving inspiration from William
Faulkner,[43] he ultimately describes as the only reason
to read any literature, regardless of genre.[44]
This nuanced, multi-layered, all-encompassing nature of
Martins work has consistently received accolades his
work has captured the imaginations of millions for the
same reason the archetypal dramas of Homer, Sophocles
or Shakespeare have lasted for millennia. They show us
the conict between self-sacrice and self-interest, between the human spirit and the human ego, between good
and evil. And when we look up from the page we recognise those same conicts in the world around us and in
ourselves.[45][46]

4 Relationship with fans

4.1 Blog
Martin actively contributes to his blog, Not a Blog. He
still does all his writing on an old DOS machine running
Wordstar 4.0.[47]

4.2 Conventions
Martin is known for his regular attendance through the
decades at science ction conventions and comics con-

4.5

Fan ction

5
ferent book projects has always been part of his working
process.[55]

4.5 Fan ction

Martin is opposed to fan ction, which he views as
copyright infringement and a bad exercise for aspiring
writers.[56][57]

5 Personal life

GRRM signing books in a bookstore in Ljubljana, Slovenia (June

2011)

ventions, and his accessibility to fans. In the early 1980s,

critic and writer Thomas Disch identied Martin as a
member of the Labor Day Group, writers who regularly congregated at the annual Worldcon,[48] usually held
on or around the Labor Day weekend. Since the early
1970s he has also attended regional science ction conventions, and since 1986 Martin has participated annually
in Albuquerque's smaller regional convention Bubonicon,
near his New Mexico home.[49] He was invited to be
Guest of Honor at the 61st World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto, held in 2003.[50][51]

4.3

Fan club

Martin at LoneStarCon 3 (the 71st World Science Fiction Convention) in San Antonio, Texas

In the early 1970s, Martin was in a relationship with

fellow science-ction/fantasy author Lisa Tuttle,[58] with
whom he co-wrote Windhaven.
While attending an East Coast science ction convention
he met his rst wife, Gale Burnick; they were married
in 1975, but the marriage ended in divorce, without issue, in 1979. On February 15, 2011, Martin married
his longtime partner Parris McBride during a small ceremony at their Santa Fe home. On August 19, 2011, they
held a larger wedding ceremony and reception at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, in
Reno, Nevada.[59]

Martins ocial fan club is the Brotherhood Without

Banners, who have a regular posting board at the Forum of the website [Link], which is focused on his
Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. At the annual World
Science Fiction Convention every year, the BWB hosts a
large, on-going hospitality suite that is open to all memHe and his wife Parris are supporters of the Wild Spirit
bers of the Worldcon;[52] their suite frequently wins by
Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico.[60] In early 2013 he
popular vote the conventions best party award.
purchased Santa Fes Jean Cocteau Cinema and Coee
House, which had been closed since 2006. He had the
property completely restored, including both its original
4.4 Fan criticism and response
35 mm capability to which was added digital projection
ocially reopened for business
Martin has been criticized by some of his readers for the and sound; the Cocteau
[61]
Martin
has also supported Meow
on
August
9,
2013.
long periods between books in the Ice and Fire series,
an
arts
collective
in
Santa
Fe, having pledged $2.7
Wolf,
notably the six-year gap between the fourth volume, A
million
towards
a
new
art-space
in
January 2015.[62][63]
Feast for Crows (2005), and the fth volume, A Dance
with Dragons (2011).[53][54] The previous year, in 2010,
Martin had responded to fan criticisms by saying he was
unwilling to write only his Ice and Fire series, noting that
working on other prose and compiling and editing dif-

In response to a question on his religious views, Martin

replied: I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would
consider me an atheist or agnostic. I nd religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the

8 BIBLIOGRAPHY

end and theres something more, but I can't convince the

rational part of me that makes any sense whatsoever.[64]

Declared by Time One of the Most Inuential People of 2011[4]

Martin is a fan of the New York Jets[65] and the New York
Mets.[66]

2012 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for A

Dance with Dragons

2012 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation,

Long Form for Game of Thrones Season 1 (CoExecutive Producer of the HBO series)

Politics

In 2014, Martin endorsed Senator Tom Udall.[67]

2012 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement

In the midst of pressure to pull The Interview (2014) from

movie theatres, the Jean Cocteau theatre in Santa Fe, New
Mexico (owned by George R.R. Martin since 2013) decided to show the lm. As a movie theater, we are not
just involved in the entertainment business. We are involved in the First Amendment business, protecting our
freedoms, theatre manager Jon Bowman told the Santa
Fe New Mexican.[68]

2013 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation,

Short Form for Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode
9, Blackwater (Screenwriter)

Awards

2014 Locus Award for Best Original Anthology for

Old Mars (co-edited with Gardner Dozois)[69]

7.1 Nominations
1997 Nebula Award for Best Novel for A Game of
Thrones[70]

1975 Hugo Award for Best Novella for A Song for

Lya

1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel for A Clash of

Kings

1980 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for

"Sandkings"

2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel for A Storm of

Swords

1980 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Sandkings (This is Martins only story to win both a
Hugo and a Nebula.)

2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel for A Storm of

Swords[71]

1980 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "The Way
of Cross and Dragon"
1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Portraits
of His Children
1988 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction for The
Pear-Shaped Man
1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella for
"The Skin Trade"

2006 Hugo Award for Best Novel for A Feast for

Crows [72]
2006 Quill Award for A Feast for Crows
British Fantasy Award for A Feast for Crows
2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel for A Dance with
Dragons[73]

8 Bibliography

1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella for Blood of

8.1
the Dragon
2003 Premio Ignotus for Best Foreign Novel for A
Game of Thrones
2004 Premio Ignotus for Best Foreign Novel for A
Clash of Kings
2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for A
Storm of Swords
2006 Premio Ignotus for Best Foreign Novel for A
Storm of Swords
2011 Locus Award for Best Original Anthology for
Warriors (co-edited with Gardner Dozois)

Author

8.2 Television
The Twilight Zone
"The Last Defender of Camelot" (1986)
writer (teleplay)
"The Once and Future King" (1986) writer
(teleplay), story editor
A Saucer of Loneliness (1986) story editor
Lost and Found (1986) writer (teleplay),
from a published short story by Phyllis Eisenstein

8.3

Editor
The Girl I Married (1987) story editor
The World Next Door (1989) story editor
"The Toys of Caliban" (1986) writer (teleplay), from an unpublished short story by
Terry Matz
"The Road Less Traveled" (1986) writer
(story and teleplay), story editor

Beauty and the Beast

Terrible Saviour (1987) writer
Masques (1987) writer
Shades of Grey (1988) writer
Promises of Someday (1988) writer
Fever (1988) writer

7
New Voices in Science Fiction 4 (1981: more new
stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)
The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book (1983) edited
with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Stories by the great science ction writers on fat, thin,
and everything in between)
The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5 (1984,
continuation of the New Voices in Science Fiction series)
Night Visions 3 (1986)
8.3.1

Wild Cards series editor (also contributor to

many volumes)

Ozymandias (1988) writer

Wild Cards (1987; contents expanded in 2010 edition with three new stories/authors)

Dead of Winter (1988) writer

Wild Cards II: Aces High (1987)

Brothers (1989) writer

When the Blue Bird Sings (1989) writer
(teleplay)
A Kingdom by the Sea (1989) writer
What Rough Beast (1989) writer (story)
Ceremony of Innocence (1989) writer

Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild (1987)

Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad (1988; contents
expanded in 2015 edition with two new stories/authors)
Wild Cards V: Down & Dirty (1988)

Snow (1989) writer

Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole (1990)

Beggars Comet (1990) writer

Wild Cards VII: Dead Mans Hand (1990)

Invictus (1990) writer

Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks (1991)

The Outer Limits

Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shue (1991)

"The Sandkings" (1995) writer (story)

Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire (1992)

Doorways (1993, unreleased pilot) writer, producer, creator; (IDW Publishing issued the pilots
storyline as a graphic novel miniseries in 2010)[78]

Wild Cards XI: Dealers Choice (1992)

Game of Thrones

Wild Cards: Card Sharks (1993; Book I of a New

Cycle trilogy)

"The Pointy End" (2011) writer

"Blackwater" (2012) writer
"The Bear and the Maiden Fair" (2013)
writer
"The Lion and the Rose" (2014) writer

8.3

Editor

Wild Cards XII: Turn of the Cards (1993)

Wild Cards: Marked Cards (1994; Book II of a New

Cycle trilogy)
Wild Cards: Black Trump (1995; Book III of a New
Cycle trilogy)
Wild Cards: Deuces Down (2002)
Wild Cards: Death Draws Five (2006; solo novel by
John J. Miller)

New Voices in Science Fiction (1977: new stories by

the John W. Campbell Award winners)

Wild Cards: Inside Straight (2008; Book I of the

Committee triad)

New Voices in Science Fiction 2 (1979: more new

stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)

Wild Cards: Busted Flush (2008; Book II of the

Committee triad)

New Voices in Science Fiction 3 (1980: more new

stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)

Wild Cards: Suicide Kings (2009; Book III of the

Committee triad)

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Wild Cards: Fort Freak (2011)

[6] Author George R.R. Martin Is Visiting Texas A&M,

Talks Game of Thrones and Texas A&M Libraries.
TAMUTimes (Texas A&M University). March 22, 2013.

Wild Cards: Lowball (2014)

Wild Cards:
forthcoming)[79]
8.3.2

High

Stakes

REFERENCES

(announced;

Cross-genre anthologies edited (with Gardner

Dozois)

Songs of the Dying Earth (2009; a tribute anthology to Jack Vances seminal Dying Earth series, rst
published by Subterranean Press)
Warriors (2010; a massive, cross-genre anthology
featuring stories about war and warriors; winner of
the 2011 Locus Poll Award for Best Original Anthology)

[7] Monitor. Entertainment Weekly (1277/1278). Sep 20

27, 2013. p. 36.
[8] Life & Times of George R.R. Martin. George R.R. Martin (ocial website). Retrieved February 27, 2012.
[9] Martin, George R. R. (October 2004). The Heart of a
Small Boy. Asimovs Science Fiction. Retrieved March
28, 2014.
[10] Interview with George R.R. Martin. Sea of Shelves. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
[11] The Heart of a Small Boy by George R. R. Martin. Retrieved October 30, 2014.

Songs of Love and Death (2010; a cross-genre [12] Berwick, Isabel (June 1, 2012). Lunch with the FT:
George RR Martin. Financial Times. Retrieved June 1,
anthology featuring stories of romance in fantasy
2012.
and science ction settings, originally entitled Star
Crossed Lovers)
[13] Rutko, Aaron (July 8, 2011). Garden State Tolkien:
Down These Strange Streets (2011; a cross-genre anthology that blends classic detective stories with fantasy and science ction)
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