Songs of Love and Death - All-original Tales of Star-crossed Love

Informationen zum Autor George R. R. Martin is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of many novels! including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire— A Game of Thrones ! A Clash of Kings ! A Storm of Swords ! A Feast for Crows ! and  A Dance with Dragons —as well as  Tuf Voyaging ! Fevre Dream ! The Armageddon Rag ! Dying of the Light ! Windhaven  (with Lisa Tuttle)! and  Dreamsongs Volumes I  and II . He is also the creator of  The Lands of Ice and Fire ! a collection of maps featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts! and  The World of Ice and Fire ! with Elio M. García! Jr! and Linda Antonsson. As a writer-producer! he has worked on  The Twilight Zone ! Beauty and the Beast ! and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe! New Mexico. Gardner Dozois’s editorial work had received fifteen Hugo Awards and twenty-eight Locus Awards! plus two Nebula Awards for his own writing. He was the editor of the leading science fiction magazine!  Asimov’s Science Fiction ! for twenty years! and was the author or editor of over a hundred books. Songs of Love & Death Love Hurts Murphy gestured at the bodies and said, “Love hurts.” I ducked under the crime scene tape and entered the Wrigleyville apartment. The smell of blood and death was thick. It made gallows humor inevitable. Murphy stood there looking at me. She wasn’t offering explanations. That meant she wanted an unbiased opinion from CPD’s Special Investigations consultant—who is me, Harry Dresden. As far as I know, I am the only wizard on the planet earning a significant portion of his income working for a law enforcement agency. I stopped and looked around, taking inventory. Two bodies, naked, male and female, still intertwined in the act. One little pistol, illegal in Chicago, lying upon the limp fingers of the woman. Two gunshot wounds to the temples, one each. There were two overlapping fan-shaped splatters of blood, and more had soaked into the carpet. The bodies stank like hell. Some very unromantic things had happened to them after death. I walked a little farther into the room and looked around. Somewhere in the apartment, an old vinyl was playing Queen. Freddie wondered who wanted to live forever. As I listened, the song ended and began again a few seconds later, popping and scratching nostalgically. The walls were covered in photographs. I don’t mean that there were a lot of pictures on the wall, like at great-grandma’s house. I mean covered in photographs. Entirely. Completely papered. I glanced up. So was the ceiling. I took a moment to walk slowly around, looking at pictures. All of them, every single one of them, featured the two dead people together, posed somewhere and looking deliriously happy. I walked and peered. Plenty of the pictures were near-duplicates in most details, except that the subjects wore different sets of clothing—generally cutesy matching T-shirts. Most of the sites were tourist spots within Chicago. It was as if the couple had gone on the same vacation tour every day, over and over again, collecting the same general batch of pictures each time. “Matching T-shirts,” I said. “Creepy.” Murphy’s smile was unpleasant. She was a tiny, compactly muscular woman with blond hair and a button nose. I’d say that she was so cute I just wanted to put her in my pocket, but if I tried to do it, she’d break my arm. Murph knows martial arts. She waited and said nothing. “Another suicide pact. That’s the third one this month.” I gestured at the pictures. “...

Product details

• Authors: Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin, George R. R. Martin
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781501123726
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-2372-6
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 38 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy