Dreamsongs 1

Informationen zum Autor George R. R. Martin Klappentext Even before A Game of Thrones! George R. R. Martin had already established himself as a giant in the field of fantasy literature. The first of two stunning collections! Dreamsongs: Volume I is a rare treat for readers! offering fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master. Gathered here in Dreamsongs: Volume I are the very best of George R. R. Martin's early works! including his Hugo! Nebula! and Bram Stoker award-winning stories! cool fan pieces! and the original novella The Ice Dragon! from which Martin's New York Times bestselling children's book of the same title originated. A dazzling array of subjects and styles that features extensive author commentary! Dreamsongs! Volume I is the perfect collection for both Martin devotees and a new generation of fans. "Fans! genre historians and aspiring writers alike will find this shelf-bending retrospective as impressive as it is intriguing."-Publishers Weekly "Dreamsongs is the ideal way to discover . . . a master of science fiction! fantasy and horror. . . . Martin is a writer like no other."-The Guardian (U.K.) PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTIN "Of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition! Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien."-Time "Long live George Martin . . . a literary dervish! enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language! and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers."-The New York Times "I always expect the best from George R. R. Martin! and he always delivers."-Robert Jordan Leseprobe Chapter One A Four-Color Fanboy In the beginning, I told my tales to no one but myself. Most of them existed only in my head, but once I learned to read and write I would sometimes put down bits on paper. The oldest surviving example of my writing, which looks like something I might have done in kindergarten or first grade, is an encyclopedia of outer space, block-printed in one of those school tablets with the marbled black and white covers. Each page has a drawing of a planet or a moon, and a few lines about its climate and its people. Real planets like Mars and Venus co-exist happily with ones I'd swiped from Flash Gordon and Rocky Jones, and others that I made up myself. It's pretty cool, my encyclopedia, but it isn't finished. I was a lot better at starting stories than I was at finishing them. They were only things I made up to amuse myself. Amusing myself was something I'd learned to do at a very early age. I was born on September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the firstborn child of Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. I don't recall having any playmates my own age until we moved into the projects when I was four. Before that, my parents lived in my great grandmother's house with my great grandmother, her sister, my grandmother, her brother, my parents, and me. Until my sister Darleen was born two years later, I was the only child. We had no kids next door either. Grandma Jones was a stubborn woman who refused to sell her house even after the rest of Broadway had gone commercial, so ours was the only residence for twenty blocks. When I was four and Darleen was two and Janet was three years shy of being born, my parents finally moved into an apartment of their own in the new federal housing projects down on First Street. The word "projects" conjures up images of decaying high-rises set amongst grim concrete wastelands, but the LaTourette Gardens were not Cabrini-Green. The buildings stood three stories high, with six apartments on each floor. We had playgrounds and basketball courts, and across the street a park ran beside the oily waters of the Kill van Kull. It wasn't a bad place to grow up . . . and unlike Grandm...

Product details

• Authors: Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.10.2012
• EAN: 9780553385687
• ISBN: 978-0-553-38568-7
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Bantam Books; Traumlieder; Dreamsongs; Traumlieder; Dreamsongs
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy