Date: 20 Jun 89 00:29:30 PDT (Tuesday)
Subject: Author Lists: George R. R. Martin
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 27-Jun-95

I've always felt that George R. R. Martin excels 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 heroes 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).

[C] == Story Collection.

Martin, George R(aymond) R(ichard)	(U.S.A., 9/20/1948- )	G, H
	(awards: Balrog 1983; GilgamXs 1984, 1987, 1989; Hugo 1975, 1980 (2); Inkpot 1988; Locus 1976, 1977, 1980 [2], 1981, 1982 [2], 1984; Nebula 1979, 1985; Seiun 1983; Stoker 1988; WFA 1989)

The Armageddon Rag (Nemo, 1983) [Balrog]
Dying of the Light (1977)
Fevre Dream (1982) [GilgamXs]
A Game of Thrones (1995) [forthcoming]
Nightflyers (1985) [C]
"The Pear-Shaped Man" (Pulphouse, 1991) [CB] [Short Story #37]
Portraits of His Children (Dark Harvest, 1987) [C]
Sandkings (1981) [C]
A Song for Lya and Other Stories (1976) [C]
Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977) [C]
Songs the Dead Men Sing (Dark Harvest, 1983) [C] [rev. 1985] [GilgamXs]
Tuf Voyaging (1986) [C] [GilgamXs]

with John J. Miller
	Dead Man's Hand (1990) [Wild Cards #7]

with Lisa Tuttle
	Windhaven (1981)

Edited
	Wild Cards
		Wild Cards (1987)
		Aces High (1987)
		Jokers Wild (1987)
		Aces Abroad (1988)
		Down and Dirty (1988)
		Ace in the Hole (1990)
		One-Eyed Jacks (1991)
		Jokertown Shuffle (1991)
		Dealer's Choice (1992)
		Card Sharks (1993)
		Marked Cards (1994)
		Black Trump (1995) [forthcoming]

The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5 (1984)
New Voices in Science Fiction (1977) [= New Voices I]
New Voices II (1979)
New Voices III (1980)
New Voices 4 (1981)
Night Visions 3 (Dark Harvest, 1986) [= Night Visions;= Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart]

with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
	The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book (1983)

related novel by Melinda Snodgrass
	Double Solitaire (1992) [Wild Cards #10]

related novel by Victor Milan
	Turn of the Cards (1993) [Wild Cards #12]

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