George R.R. Martin Books In Order

Publication Order of A Song Of Ice and Fire Books

Publication Order of Game Of Thrones Collection Books

Publication Order of Game Of Thrones Graphic Novels

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Publication Order of Targaryen History Books

Publication Order of Wild Cards Books

Publication Order of Wild Cards: USA Triad Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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Publication Order of Short Story Collections

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Publication Order of Hedge Knight Graphic Novel Books

Publication Order of George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards - Comics Books

Publication Order of Dangerous Women Anthologies

Publication Order of Dreamsongs Books

Publication Order of Night Visions Books

Publication Order of Wild Cards Mosaic: New Cycle Anthologies

Publication Order of Daniel Abraham Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Daniel Abraham Graphic Novels

Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books

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Publication Order of Year's Best Fantasy Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

George Richard raymond Martin, also called: GRRM. He was born on september 20, in New Jersey, he is a short story writer, novelist, producer, scenarist, journalist, and a professor of journalism. He is also a fan of chess and organized many competitions. He is very famous for his international bestselling series: “A song of Ice and Fire” which was adapted recently by HBO for the TV series “Game of Thrones”. He sold his first story in 1971 and since then exhibited a profound talent and passion about writing. He had been working on many films and television series in Hollywood, such the beauty and the beast, and the twilight zone. Today he is living in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Parris MacBride, and Augustus and Caligula, his two cats. He was named amongst the 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 by the “Time Magazine”.

His early life

Born to a family with mixed origins, containing German, French, and English ancestors. His father Raymond Collins Martin was half Italian, whereas his mother Margaret Brady Martin was half Irish. He spent his childhood in Broadway before moving with his parents and his two young sisters: Janet Martin Patten and Darleen Martin Lapinski to Bayonne.

He went to Mary jane Donohoe school, and Marist High school, a catholic boys school, where he played chess, and became a comic-book fan and collector, and owned the very first issues of “The Amazing Spider-man” and “Fantastic Four”.

He started writing in elementary school, where he sold stories about monsters to children for pennies. In high school, he started writing fiction, and sold his first work “The Hero” to Galaxy, and the story was published in February 1971, but before that, he won comic fandom’s Alley award for his story “Powerman VS. the blue barriere”.

Martin received his B.S Northwestern University journalism degree, and decided to complete his M.S in journalism the year after at the same university.

For two consecutive years, Martin was involved in an alternative service work during the period from 1972 to 1974 with VISTA. He directed chess tournaments from 1973 to 1976, then spent two years at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa as a college professor. The reason he resigned, later, from his job, was a sudden death of his friend Tom Reamy in 1977, which forced him to check his priorities, and decided to become a full time writer.Two years later, he moved to Santa Fe after his divorce with Gale Burnick who he married in 1975, and had no children with her.

His works:

The author began his career in writing very early. He started selling short stories at the age of 21. After successfully selling and publishing “The Hero”, other sales followed. He also wrote many short stories one of them “With Morning Comes Mistfall », which had been published in 1973 ny Analog magazine, was his first work to be on the Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards nominees. Shortly afterwards, he was again nominated and won a “Best Novella” Hugo Award for his tale “A song for Lya” in 1975. A short story that was inspired to Martin by his first serious and romantic relationship. It talks about two telepaths, Robb and Lyanna visiting a planet whose inhabitants commit mass suicide by worshiping a mold-like organism.

The following year, Martin published his first novel “After the Festival ». However, the original title changed before its first hardcover publication into “Dying of The Light”. A science fiction novel that had been nominated for the hugo award best novel in 1978, and the british Fantasy Award in 1979. In this book, Martin’s obsession with killing his main characters appears clearly, as many of this novel’s characters die by the end of the war that takes place under the dying light falling on Worlorn, the dying planet of the Kavalar race, morally complex humans who live strange lives and follow their own agenda.

Martin’s works, so often, feature brutality, violence, sexuality, and religion, with usually unhappy and unsatisfied characters. Although fantasy and horror are his best category of writing, some of his previous works are fiction tales taking part in some future history. He also wrote a political fiction “Night of the Vampyres”. In general, he loves to create complicated, but realistic characters, and throw them into masterfully handed plots, this is the raison he was compared to Tolkien, and called “The American Tolkien” by the “Time Magazine”.

His characters are multi-factorial, more real and unpredictable. None of them is sheltered from sudden death, misfortune, or injury, and when asked about this “obsession” he explained: “People die in wars. People get maimed in wars, and many of them are good, likable people who you would like to not see die”

Awards:

Martin won many other awards for his works: His story “Sandkings” won a hugo and a Nebula Award in 1980. In the same year, another Hugo Award had been granted to him for the best short story “The way of cross and dragon”. In 1986, he was, again, awarded another nebula award for his Novelette “Portrait of his children”. And other awards related to his best work “A song of ice and Fire” series books had been added to his huge selection of prizes and trophies acknowledging the fact that he is a great novelist, with a very apparent taste for fasacinating characters, great dialogues, and perfect pacing as described by the “Los Angeles Times”

A game of Thrones:

This is the first novel in the high fantasy series “A song of Ice and Fire” written by GRRM. It begins in the year 298AC (After Conquest) as winter approaches and menaces to last for four decades. Several noble Houses fight over the throne of the seven kingdoms. Meanwhile, the Others Beyond the Wall prepare to march South. As Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell comes to act as the King’s Councilor, and try to defend him against the dangerous men and women conspiring against his kingdom, Daenerys, the daughter of the former king is preparing an army overseas in order to claim the throne: Her right of birth. The book also follows the story of Jon Snow, the “bastard” of Eddard Stark as he grows up in the north of Westeros, then serves at “the Night’s Watch” to protect the Seven Kingdoms from the dangers lurking behind the Wall. The center of the conflict is always the Starks Family of Winterfell. It is the start of a captivating tale of wars, kings, betrayal, lords, and ladies, sorcerers, and soldiers, each character’s fate is hangs perilously in balance as everyone claims the throne.

The second book of the series “A song of Ice and Fire”

Chaos reigns the realms as a comet with the color of blood rips through the sky. Princess Arya Stark flees the capital of King’s Landing where her father had been executed, disguised as a boy. Other characters stand out, such as Queen Cersei, her brother Tyron Lannister, the Dwarf, and Arya’s brother Brandon. Each following a quest, plotting, and trying to avoid others’ plots. Joffrey, Queen Cersei’s son ascends the throne after the death of Robert Baratheon, and starts ruling the Seven Kingdoms in a sadistic manner. While his family “The Lannisters” try hardly to keep the throne for him as Stannis and Renly Baratheon both start seeking the throne. Robb Start is declared King of the North and starts fighting battles to avenge the death of his father and retrieve his sister from the court of the Lannisters. All the while, Daenerys, the daughter of the former king nurtures three dragons and prepares her way to the Iron Throne.

Cinematic Interpretations of GRRM’s works:

GRRM turned into Hollywood television career right after the failure of his fourth novel “The Armageddon Rag » in 1983. He first worked as a staff writer, then as a story consultant. He wrote scripts, and created “Ped Xing” character. He also helped in writing-producing the dramatic fantasy series “Beauty and the beast”. He also contributed in the editing of other TV series such as “Wild Cards” and “The Twilight Zone”.

Other works of Martin had inspired TV series and films, such as “Nightflyers”, a 1980 novella that had been adapted into a science-fiction horror film in 1987, and The series “A song of Ice and Fire” which had been adapted by HBO into the very famous TV series “Game of Thrones” in 2011 which counts now four seasons. It has known a very large success, and is being watched all over the world. Martin was also involved heavily in this TV series production, participating in the scriptwriting, and the selection of the production team. Ultimately, HBO’s first season of the series, based on the first book, won two Emmy Awards, as for the second season, based on his second book, won six awards. The show won many other awards, including a 2012 Hugo Award.