George R. R. Martin

---------------------------------------------- "A Beast for Norn" (Tuf series) © Andromeda # 1, ed. P. Weston, 1976 Galaxy, Sep 1979 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award An exotic space opera "animal blood sports" tale, which brings to memory certain prototypes in the pulps... Let's see, Martin himself says: "The first Haviland Tuf story, "A Beast for Norn," was my attempt to capture some of Vance's effects, and Tuf is a very Vancean hero, a distant cousin to Magnus Ridolph, perhaps." It's colorful, has cool alien animals, although does not reach the heights of "Plague Star" in intensity. review: 18-Jul-06 (read in 2001) ---------------------------------------------- "After the Festival" (nv) © Analog, Apr 1977 book: 1980, Dell Books --/ cool sf novel --/ style award "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" © Analog, Jul 1975 Songs of Stars and Shadows, 1977 Nightflyers, 1987 --novelette : 1976 Hugo --novelette : 1976 Locus /3 --/ cool sf story "Bitterblooms" © Cosmos SF Magazine, Nov 1977 Sandkings, 1981 --short fiction : 1978 Locus /19 (tie) --/ second place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award --/ romance award "Call Him Moses" (Tuf series) © Analog, Feb 1978 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --/ cool sf story "The Computer Cried Charge!" © Amazing, Jan 1976 "Dark, Dark Were The Tunnels" © Vertex Magazine, Dec 1973 A Song For Lya, 1976 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ idea award --/ shock value "The Exit To San Breta" © Fantastic, Feb 1972 A Song For Lya, 1976 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award "Fast-Friend" © Faster Than Light, ed. J. Dann, 1976 Sandkings, 1981 --/ third place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award --/ idea award "Fevre Dream" (nv) © Poseidon Press, 1982 --novel : 1983 World Fantasy --fantasy novel : 1983 Locus /3 --/ third place f novel --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award "...For a Single Yesterday" © Epoch, ed. R. Elwood, 1975 Songs of Stars and Shadows, 1977 --novelette : 1976 Locus /6 --foreign short story : 2001 Seiun --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award "FTA" © Analog, May 1974 A Song for Lya, 1976 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award ---------------------------------------------- "The Glass Flower" © IASFM, Sep 1986 Portraits of His Children, 1988 --Asimov's Reader's Poll 1987, novelette --Locus Poll Award 1987, novelette /7 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award George Martin certainly can write space operas, with an intensely personal, lyrical, and yet grandiose sense. This is one of these rare stand-alone novellas, which are getting so hard to find these days when everybody seems to have jumped on "trilogies" and "series" bandwagon. Well, I liked it enough to give it a well-deserved "wonder award" (Martin let loose here on a particularly galaxy-shaking scale), but overall impression is muddy. Martin trades human characters (whom he can describe with depth and sympathy) with non-human and eternal super-beings, which we can hardly relate to. It is very adequate entertainment, but hardly anything more. Here is the blurb: "It's been a lifetime and more since Cyrain has been challenged in the game of mind. When the cyborg arrives, she senses a worthy and dangerous opponent - one that's been dead for 800 years..." Magazine publication has some cool artwork by Terry Lee, see below. review: 27-Aug-06 (read in 2004) ---------------------------------------------- "Guardians" (Tuf series) © Analog, Oct 1981 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --novelette : 1982 Hugo --novelette : 1982 Locus W --novella/novelette : 1982 AnLab /4 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award "The Hero" © Galaxy, Feb 1971 A Song For Lya, 1976 "In the House of the Worm" © The Ides of Tomorrow, ed. T. Carr, 1976 Sandkings, 1981 --/ third place f novella --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award "Loaves and Fishes" (Tuf series) © Analog, Oct 1985 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --novella : 1986 Locus /7 --novella/novelette : 1986 AnLab W --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" © Fantastic, May 1976 Songs of Stars and Shadows, 1977 --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award --/ romance award "Manna from Heaven" (Tuf series) © Analog, Dec 1985 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --novella/novelette : 1986 AnLab /2 --/ cool sf story "Meathouse Man" © Orbit # 18, 1976 Songs the Dead Men Sing, 1983 --novelette : 1977 Locus /8 --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award --/ idea award --/ shock value "Nightflyers" (nv) © Analog, Apr 1980 © Binary Star # 5, 1981 (expanded) Songs the Dead Men Sing, 1983 Nightflyers, 1987 --novella : 1981 Hugo --novella : 1981 Locus W --novella/novelette : 1981 AnLab W --foreign short fiction : 1983 Seiun W --/ second place space sf novella --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award --/ idea award "Nor The Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring" © Faster Than Light, ed. J. Dann, 1976 Nightflyers, 1987 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award "Override" © Analog, Sep 1973 A Song for Lya, 1976 Nightflyers, 1987 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ idea award --/ shock value "The Pear-Shaped Man" © OMNI, Sep 1987 --novella : 1988 World Fantasy --novelette : 1988 Stoker W (tie) --novelette : 1988 Locus /18 --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ style award "The Plague Star" (Tuf series) © Analog, 1985 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --novella : 1986 Locus /4 --serial : 1986 AnLab /3 --/ third place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award --/ idea award "Portraits Of His Children" © IASFM, Nov 1985 Portraits Of His Children, 1992 --novellette : 1986 Hugo --novellette : 1986 Nebula W --novellette : 1986 Locus /3 --novellette : 1986 SF Chronicle W --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ style award "Run To Starlight" © Amazing, Dec 1974 A Song For Lya, 1976 "Sandkings" © OMNI, Aug 1979 Sandkings, 1981 --novelette : 1980 Hugo W --novelette : 1980 Nebula W --novelette : 1980 Locus W --short fiction : 1980 Balrog --novelette : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /5 --/ second place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ idea award "Second Helpings" (Tuf series) © Analog, Nov 1985 Tuf Voyaging, 1987 --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award "The Second Kind of Loneliness" © Analog, Dec 1972 A Song for Lya, 1976 --short fiction : 1973 Locus /7 --/ second place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award --/ romance award "Slide Show" © Omega, ed. R. Elwood, 1973 A Song For Lya, 1976 --/ cool sf story "A Song for Lya" © Analog, Jun 1974 A Song for Lya, 1976 --novella : 1975 Hugo W --novella : 1975 Nebula --novella : 1975 Locus/2 --novella : 1975 Jupiter --novella : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /33 --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ idea award "A Song For Lya" (coll) © 1976, Avon Books --author collection : 1977 Locus W --/ third place sf collection --/ wonder award --/ style award "The Stone City" (nv) © New Voices in SF, 1977 Sandkings, 1981 --novelette : 1978 Nebula --short fiction : 1978 Locus /7 --/ cool sf novella --/ wonder award "Starlady" © SF Discoveries, ed. F. Pohl, 1976 Sandkings, 1981 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award "Tuf Voyaging" (coll.) (Tuf series) © 1987, Baen Books --collection : 1987 Locus /5 --/ fourth place space sf collection --/ wonder award "The Way of Cross and Dragon" © OMNI, Jun 1979 Sandkings, 1981 --short story : 1980 Hugo W --short story : 1980 Nebula --short story : 1980 Locus W --short story : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /36 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award "Weekend in a War Zone" © Future Pastimes, ed. by S. Edelstein, 1977 Nightflyers, 1987 --/ cool sf story "With Morning Comes Mistfall" © Analog, May 1973 A Song for Lya, 1976 --short story : 1974 Hugo --short story : 1974 Nebula --short fiction : 1974 Locus /8 --/ second place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award ---------------------------------------------------

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