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Informationen zum Autor George R. R. Martin is the international best selling author of the Game of Thrones. His first short story appeared in print in 1970; in 1973 his story "With Morning Comes Mistfall"was nominated for the both the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1977 his first novel, Dying of the Light, was published by Simon & Schuster and was nominated for the both the Hugo Award and the British Fantasy Award. His 1983 novel Fevre Dream has been called one of the greatest vampire novels of all time and was nominated for a Stoker award. A Game of Thrones (first in his A Song of Ice and Fire series) was published in 1997 and reached #1 on the New York Times best seller list. The Daenerys Targaryen chapters won the Hugo Award for Best Novella. In 2011 A Game of Thrones was adapted into an HBO series, to worldwide acclaim. He currently lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Klappentext The World Fantasy Award-winning collection of stories featuring the best and the bravest females across genre fiction. All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors' bestselling continuities-including a new Outlander story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden's world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians , and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones . Also included are original stories of dangerous women--heroines and villains alike--by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others. Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, "Here you'll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you want to tie these women to the railroad tracks, you'll find you have a real fight on your hands. Instead, you will find sword-wielding women warriors, intrepid women fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, deadly female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, female wizards, hard-living Bad Girls, female bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, female Private Investigators, stern female hanging judges, haughty queens who rule nations and whose jealousies and ambitions send thousands to grisly deaths, daring dragonriders, and many more." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Some Desperado by Joe Abercrombie My Heart is Either Broken by Megan Abbott Nora's Song by Cecelia Holland The Hands That Are Not There by Melinda Snodgrass Bombshells by Jim Butcher Raisa Stepanova by Carrie Vaughn Wrestling Jesus by Joe R. Lansdale Neighbors by Megan Lindholm I Know How to Pick 'Em by Lawrence Block Shadows For Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson A Queen In Exile by Sharon Kay Penman The Girl In the Mirror by Lev Grossman Second Arabesque, Very Slowly by Nancy Kress City Lazarus by Diana Rowland Virgins by Diana Gabaldon Hell Hath No Fury by Sherilynn Kenyon Pronouncing Doom by S. M. Stirling Name the Beast by Sam Sykes Caretakers by Pat Cadigan Lies My Mother Told Me by Caroline Spector The Princess and the Queen by George R. R. Martin ...
