George Raymond Richard Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid ‘90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Fire and Ice. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Coming Soon from George RR Martin:
Songs of the Dying Earth (Paperback – October 2010)
Read an extract from Songs of the Dying Earth
A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A million cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls, dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain to the long history of our world. At the last, science and magic are one, and there is evil on Earth, distilled by time … Earth is dying.
Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth, and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time, Jack has agreed to open this intriguing and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists, to play in as their very own.
The list of twenty-two contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by writing for this anthology includes Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, and George R.R. Martin himself.
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Why were the Ice and Fire books removed from the UK Kindle store on Amazon? I read the first book on my Kindle, then the others were removed. I’d like to read the rest of the series, but now they’ve gone I won’t. I was recommending them to all my friends – most read on a Kindle. That’s quite a few lost sales there. Please please publish them on the Kindle store in the UK.
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@ #7 – HarperCollins are redoing the ebook versions of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE for new editions and giving them some special treatment. I assume that’s why the existing ebooks have been removed as the new ones should replace them in the New Year.