Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-458-4
Two dozen stories of women warriors form this epic anthology of stories about those forced to fight, those who chose to fight regardless of odds, those who ran from their destiny as warriors, and those who will end war at any cost. In Caitlín R....
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George R.R. Martin. Bantam, $35 (1,056p) ISBN 978-0-553-80147-7
A few images recur in the enormously complex fifth installment of Martin's massively multicharacter epic: the chess-like game cyvasse, small rivers flowing into larger ones, ships and armies battered by terrible storms. These themes suggest that...
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George R. R. Martin, Author Dark Harvest $0 (263p) ISBN 978-0-913165-19-5
Martin has a loyal following for his ironic voice and his colorful imagination. This new collection, gathering stories from 14 years, puts that inventiveness at the service of a romantic and sentimental vision. In one of the earliest pieces, ""With...
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George R. R. Martin, Author Baen Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-55985-4
This ""novel'' brings together a decade's worth of stories about Haviland Tuf, an honest but thoroughly small-time interstellar trader who happens to acquire a centuries-old and miles-long seed-ship of the once powerful Earth Ecological Corps....
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George R. R. Martin, Author Spectra Books $7.99 (864p) ISBN 978-0-553-57340-4
PW gave a starred review to this first installation in a new epic fantasy series. (Sept.)
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George R. R. Martin, Author Bantam $30 (704p) ISBN 978-0-553-10354-0
In a world where the approaching winter will last four decades, kings and queens, knights and renegades struggle for control of a throne. Some fight with sword and mace, others with magic and poison. Beyond the Wall to the north, meanwhile, the...
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George R. R. Martin, Author Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio $30 (992p) ISBN 978-0-553-10663-3
The third volume of the high fantasy saga that began with A Game of Thrones and continued in A Clash of Kings is one of the more rewarding examples of gigantism in contemporary fantasy. As Martin's richly imagined world slides closer to its 10-year...
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George R. R. Martin, Author Bantam Books $30 (768p) ISBN 978-0-553-10803-3
The second novel of Martin's titanic Song of Ice and Fire saga (A Game of Thrones, 1996) begins with Princess Arya Stark fleeing her dead father's capital of King's Landing, disguised as a boy. It ends with the princess, now known as Weasel, having...
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George R. R. Martin, Author . Bantam $27 (740p) ISBN 978-0-553-80658-8
Equal parts short fiction collection and candid retrospective, this second and concluding volume of Martin's shelf-bending compendium highlights a wide variety of his later work, including two stories set in the shared, superhero-laden universe
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George R. R. Martin, Author . Bantam $27 (683p) ISBN 978-0-553-80545-1
Martin may be best known for his Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy, but this mammoth collection of short stories (the first of two volumes) highlights his work in numerous genres, including SF, horror and fantasy. Focusing on Martin’s early...
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George R. R. Martin, Author . Bantam $28 (753p) ISBN 978-0-553-80150-7
Long-awaited doesn't begin to describe this fourth installment in bestseller Martin's staggeringly epic Song of Ice and Fire. Speculation has run rampant since the previous entry, A Storm of Swords
, appeared in 2000, and Feast
teases at...
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George R. R. Martin, Author, Ben Avery, Author, Mike S. Miller, Illustrator . Devil's Due $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-932796-06-3
This heroic fantasy tale reinvigorates the tired category of sword and sorcery fiction by emphasizing the human angle. Though it's adapted from a story set in the magical world of Martin's popular Song of Ice and Fire
novels, it contains...
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George R.R. Martin, read by Roy Dotrice. Random House Audio, unabridged, 28 CDs, 33.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-91309-8
The first installment in the engrossing fantasy epic series, A Song of Ice and Fire, opens on a rigid feudal society in a world where the seasons are unpredictable—pleasant summers can last a decade and cruel winters could be scores of years long—cre
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Edited by George R.R. Martin, assisted by Melinda M. Snodgrass. Tor, $27.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3562-3
This exhilarating 23rd collaborative novel in the Wild Cards series features the contributions of assistant editor Snodgrass, David Anthony Durham, Stephen Leigh, John Jos. Miller, Caroline Spector, and Ian Tregillis. This version of Earth is...
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George R. R. Martin. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $125 (344p) ISBN 978-1-59606-254-2
Virtuoso mastery of atmosphere justifies this deluxe, illustrated 35th anniversary reprint of Martin’s debut, which long predates his star turn with Game of Thrones and its sequels. Dirk t’Larien, responding to what he imagines to be a call for help
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Edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3195-3
Meaty themes of prejudice and genocide resonate beneath furiously paced noir fantasies in the latest Wild Cards shared universe anthology. Eight standalone stories collectively explore the continuing struggle of superpowered Aces and Jokers to live...
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Rereleased 20 years after its initial publication, this gentle tale of a woman's quest to live out her dream to fly by award-winning authors Martin (Sandkings, A Storm of Swords)
and Tuttle (Lost Futures)
concerns the hard choices that come...
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George R. R. Martin, Author, Christine Carpenito, Editor Nesfa Press $25 (448p) ISBN 978-1-886778-31-3
Two novellas, a screenplay and a novel fragment the last two previously unpublished showcase the range of multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Martin (the Song of Fire and Ice trilogy). Black and White and Red All Over, the first 100 or so pages of an
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Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Tor, $29.99 (784p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3206-6
Venerable editors Martin and Dozois (Warriors) have invited writers from many different genres of fiction to showcase the supposedly weaker sex’s capacity for magic, violence, and mayhem. These 22 brand-new short stories prove that women are men’s...
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George R. R. Martin, Author, Gardner Dozois, Author, Daniel Abraham, Author . Eos $25.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-06-137329-9
Martin (Song of Ice and Fire series), Dozois (Strange Days
) and Abraham (A Shadow in Summer
) revisit classic themes of exploration, exploitation and what it means to be human in this gritty SF adventure. Humanity has finally reached the stars,...
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George R.R. Martin, illus. by Gary Gianni. Bantam, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-53348-7
The three interlocking novellas in this collection, all previously published, make for a rousing prelude to Martin's bestselling Song of Ice and Fire saga. Set 90 years before the events in A Game of Thrones, they chronicle the experiences of Ser...
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