George R.R. Martin stories

[Shadowknight]

I've been trying to track down all of George R.R. Martin's stories. I've already read is ASoIaF stuff, including the Dunk and Egg short stories. I've finally found some copies of his short stories " A Peripheral Affair", "The Computer Cried Charge!", "Nobody leaves New Pittsboro", "Warship"

So far I still need to buy "Quartet" and "Shadow Twin" to complete my collection of his stories .

Anyone read the stories above? Have any opinions? I ordered them on Saturday, but given the holidays don't expect to get them for at least 2 weeks, given all the shipping this time of year. Also, what's your favorite non-ASoIaF stories? I'm a particular fan of "Unsound Variation", who knew you could get a gripping sci-fi story from a game about chess?

 

[Kelvrick]

I've been curious too. He's probably my favorite author just for ASOIAF, but I haven't been able to read his other stuff yet. With ice and fire's success though, i think they're starting to reprint his old stuff.

Hope you remember to write what you think about his stuff on the forums (without spoilers) and that'll convince me to pick some up.

 

[Shadowknight]

They started reprinting the following a couple of years ago: Quartet: Tales from the Crossroads, A Song for Lya, Dying of the Light (novel), Tuf Voyaging (novel/short story collection), Fevre Dream (novel), Windhaven (collaboration with Lisa Tuttle), some of the early Wildcards novels (mosaic books with short stories by multiple authors), of course, the Legend anthologies with his two Dunk and Egg stories, Nightflyers (maybe).

A bunch of the short story collections are still out of print, but you can usually get them cheap through abebooks. In 2003 Subterranean Press released a MONSTER collection of most of Martin's works. George R.R. Martin: A Rretrospective. They sold out of all of the cheaper copies, and all you can buy from them now are special edition copies that cost about $175, I think. You could only buy it directly from the publisher, but some independent stores on the web got them too, but I don't know who. Bigger bookstores like Barnes and Noble did NOT carry this though. The book is no longer in print.

I recommend most of his stuff with 2 exceptions: Windhaven is a lot like Pern, in some ways. Dull, nothing really happens. Dying of the Light sucked. Tuf Voyaging and Fevre Dream are must buys.