George R.R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (Bayonne (New Jersey), 20 september 1948) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, scenarios and is in addition also film producer.

He has taught journalism and is an organizer of chess tournaments. His most famous work is the the song of ice and fireseries where the TV series Game of Thrones is based.

Content

[hide]*1 career

• 2 Bibliography
  • 2.1 A Song of Ice and Fire cycle
  • 2.2 Tales of Dunk and Egg cycle
  • 2.3 Other novels
  • 2.4 short story collections
• 3 Prices
  • 3.1 Hugo Award
  • 3.2 Nebula Award
  • 3.3 Locus Award
  • 3.4 World Fantasy Award
  • 3.5 Bram Stoker Award
• 4 external link

Career

George r. r. Martin wrote many short stories in the 1970s and won several awards, including three Hugo Awards for the short stories A Song for Lyra (1975), The Way of Cross and Dragon (1980) and Sandkings (1980). For this last work he also won the Nebula Award. In 1986 he got for the novel Portraits of His Children a second Nebula.For The Skin Trade in 1989 he received the World Fantasy Award and in 1997, he won his fourth Hugo with Blood of the Dragon. Martin is also the winner of six Locus Awards, including the first three novels of A Song of Ice and Fire .

Although much of his work belongs to the fantasy and horror genres is Martin also writer of science fiction and scenarios. From 1986 worked on the television series Martin for The New Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. In addition, he was also Editor, responsible for, among other things, the Wild Cardscycle, in which several writers, including Roger Zelazny, their books could take place in the same shared universe. Martins was made into a short story with this name in 1987 as 's Nightflyers .

In 1996 Martin returned back to writing. He began the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, the work that made him popular with the public. His works are distinguished mainly by the woven realism. At Martin there are no pure good or completely bad opponents; many sympathetic characters die, often horrific, often by betrayal. Also the suffering of the ordinary population below the wars of Kings is mercilessly portrayed.

In 2007, the American pay-TV Home Box Office (HBO) television rights of the A Song of Ice and Firecycle, after which there followed a television series under the nameGame of Thrones, which premiered on april 17, 2011. George r.r. Martin is part of the team of producers of this series and writes a script every season. For the first four seasons were respectively "The Pointy End" (episode 8), "Black water" (episode 9), "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" (episode 7) and "The Lion and The Rose" (episode 2).

Bibliography

A Song of Ice and Fire cycle

• A Game of Thrones (1996): 'a game of Thrones'
• A Clash of Kings (1999): 'a clash of Kings'
• A Storm of Swords (2000): 'a storm of swords'
• A Feast for Crows (2005): 'a feast for crows'
• A Dance With Dragons (2011): 'a dance with dragons'
• The other titles of the second part of the cycle have been announced as: The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.

Tales of Dunk and Egg cycle

• The Hedge Knight (1998): 'The h Knight'
• The Sworn Sword (2003): 'the oath of allegiance'
• The Mystery Knight (2010): 'the unknown Knight'

Other novels

• Dying of the Light (1977): The Waning Light
• Windhaven (1981-with Lisa Tuttle): windhaven
• Fevre Dream (1982): The Fevre Dream
• The Armageddon Rag (1983)
• The Ice Dragon (2007): The Ability
• Hunter's Run (2008-with Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham)

Story Collections

• A Song for Lya (1976)
• Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977)
• Sandkings (1981)
• Songs the Dead Men Sing (1983)
• 'S Nightflyers (1985)
• Tuf Voyaging (1987)
• Portraits of His Children (1987)
• Quartet (2001)
• GRRM: A Rretrospective (2003)
• Star lady and Fast-Friend (2008)

Prices

Hugo Award

• A Song for Lya (1975)-novel
• Sandkings (1980)-novelette
• The Way of Cross and Dragon (1980)-short story
• Blood of the Dragon (1997)-novel

Nebula Award

• Sandkings (1980)-novelette
• Portraits of His Children (1986)-novelette

Locus Award

• The Storms or windhaven (1976)-short story
• A Song for Lya and Other Stories (1977)- author collection
• Sandkings (1980)-novelette
• The Way of Cross and Dragon (1980)-short story
• 'S Nightflyers (1981)-novel
• Guardians (1982)-novelette
• Sandkings (1982)- single author collection
• The Monkey Treatment (1984)-novelette
• A Game of Thrones (1997)- fantasy novel
• A Clash of Kings (1999)- fantasy novel
• A Storm of Swords (2001)- fantasy novel

World Fantasy Award

• The Skin Trade (1989)-short story

Bram Stoker Award

• The Pear-Shaped Man (1988)-novelette