FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1977
"Labored, inflated, intermittently arresting."
On the edge of the galaxy, the "rogue" planet Worlorn has drifted within warming distance of a star system for just long enough to attract a decade-long "Festival" created by terraformers, biologists, and architects from every neighboring world.
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 1981
"A pleasant, undemanding read, then, without subtlety or surprises."
A longish, predictable, charming but syrupy expansion of the linked stories The Storms of Windhaven (1975) and One-Wing (1980).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 8, 1982
Good vampires vs. evil vampires on the ante-bellum Mississippi—with a fat, tough old steamboat captain perilously caught in between.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 21, 1983
"The result, then, is a busy, ambitious hybrid—too shallow to engage thoughtful Sixties veterans, too pretentious to please thrill-seekers, but energetic and flashy enough to keep a fair-sized audience reading."
Simpleminded, heavy-going nostalgia for the Sixties-rock counterculture—gotten up as lurid melodrama, with a murky mixture of psycho-whodunit, conspiracy-thriller, and (in the feverish, limp final chapters) vague occultery.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 12, 1996
"You won't get it: Be prepared for a lengthy series with an indefinitely deferred conclusion."
After a long silence (Portraits of his Children, stories, 1987), the author of the cult The Armageddon Rag (1983) returns with the first of a fantasy series entitled, insipidly enough, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 9, 1999
"And since this one tips the scales at a gargantuan 896 pages, you can build up your biceps as you read."
Second installment of Martin's fantasy —A Song of Ice and Fire,— following A Game of Thrones (1996), that enormous yarn about the strife-torn Seven Kingdoms and the various powerful families that aspire to rule them.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 2000
"Yep, Doorstopper Syndrome for sure."
Third in Martin's massive fantasy series following A Game of Thrones (1996) and A Clash of Kings (1999).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2001
"For fans only."
Television fantasy-writer and SF novelist Martin (A Clash of Kings, 1999, etc.) empties his trunk of four longer works, two of which should have remained there.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
"Fantasy readers who want a shorter read might like this offering. (Fiction. 10-14)"
A repackaging of a 1980 fantasy story about Adara, a winter child who is called on to save her world from destructive fiery dragons.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2007
"Another full-immersion experience and, once again, strictly for addicts."
Another gargantuan entry, the fourth in the Song of Ice and Fire series--indeed, while writing it Martin found the undertaking growing so vast and unwieldy that he spit the action into two novels, so
A Dance with Dragons runs concurrently and features characters and locations barely mentioned here. The action picks up directly following the events of
A Storm of Swords (2000).
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FICTION
Released: July 12, 2011
"Is Ice and Fire drawing to a close? There's plenty of wiggle room for more volumes in the series, but on the evidence, one wonders if Martin isn't getting a little tired of it."
The fifth installment in Martin's (
A Game of Thrones, 1996, etc.) Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series.
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