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George R. R. Martin

January 01, 1970

George Raymond Richard Martin[1] (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948),[2] also known as GRRM,[3] is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer, and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present). He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series, and contributed worldbuilding for Elden Ring.

George R. R. Martin
Martin in 2017
BornGeorge Raymond Martin
(1948-09-20) September 20, 1948 (age 75)
Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
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EducationNorthwestern University (BS, MS)
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Notable works
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In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien",[4][5][6] and in 2011, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.[7][8] He is a longtime resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped fund Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema.[9][10][11] The city commemorates March 29 as George R. R. Martin Day.[12][13]

Early life edit

George Raymond Martin (he adopted the confirmation name Richard at 13 years old)[2] was born on September 20, 1948,[14] in Bayonne, New Jersey,[15] the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. His mother's family had once been wealthy, owning a successful construction business, but lost it all in the Great Depression, something Martin was reminded about every day when he passed what used to be his family's dock and house.[16] He has two younger sisters, Darleen and Jane. He is predominantly of Irish descent;[17] a DNA test on the series Finding Your Roots showed him to be 53.6% "British and Irish", 22.4% Ashkenazi Jewish, and 15.6% "Broadly Northwestern European".[18][19]

The family first lived in a house on Broadway belonging to Martin's great-grandmother. In 1953, they moved to a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks.[20] During Martin's childhood, his world consisted predominantly of "First Street to Fifth Street", between his grade school and his home. This limited world made him want to travel and experience other places, but the only way of doing so was through his imagination, and he became a voracious reader.[21]

Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included. He had to stop once a customer's mother complained about her child's nightmares.[22] He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles — the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he decided they were killing each other off in "sinister plots".[23] Martin had a habit of starting "endless stories" that he never completed, as they did not turn out as well on paper as he had imagined them.[24]

Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and later Marist High School. While there, he became an avid comic-book fan, developing a strong interest in the superheroes being published by Marvel Comics,[25] and later credited Stan Lee for being one of his greatest literary influences; "Maybe Stan Lee is the greatest literary influence on me, even more than Shakespeare or Tolkien."[26] A letter Martin wrote to the editor of Fantastic Four was printed in issue #20 (November 1963); it was the first of many sent, e.g., Fantastic Four #32, #34, and others. Fans who read his letters wrote him letters in turn, and through such contacts, Martin joined the fledgling comics fandom of the era, writing fiction for various fanzines;[27] he bought the first ticket to the world's first Comic-Con, held in New York in 1964.[28][29] In 1965, Martin won comic fandom's Alley Award for Best Fan Fiction for his prose superhero story "Powerman vs. The Blue Barrier".[30]

In 1970, Martin earned a B.S. in journalism with a minor in history from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude; he went on to complete his M.S. in Journalism in 1971, also from Medill.[31] Eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War, to which he objected, Martin applied for and obtained conscientious objector status;[32] he instead did alternative service work for two years (1972–1974) as a VISTA volunteer, attached to the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation.[31]

Career edit

Early writing career edit

Martin began selling science fiction short stories professionally in 1970, at age 21. His first sale was "The Hero", sold to Galaxy magazine and published in its February 1971 issue; other sales soon followed. His first story to be nominated for the Hugo Award[33] and Nebula Awards was "With Morning Comes Mistfall", published in 1973 in Analog magazine. In 1975 his story "...for a single yesterday" about a post-apocalyptic timetripper was selected for inclusion in Epoch, a science fiction anthology edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg. His first novel, Dying of the Light, was completed in 1976 right before he moved to Dubuque and published in 1977. That same year the enormous success of Star Wars had a huge impact on the publishing industry and science fiction, and he sold the novel for the same amount he would make in three years of teaching.[34]

The short stories he was able to sell in his early 20s gave him some profit but not enough to pay his bills, which prevented him from becoming the full-time writer he wanted to be. The need for a day job occurred simultaneously with the American chess craze which followed Bobby Fischer's victory in the 1972 world chess championship. Martin's own chess skills and experience allowed him to be hired as a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association, which ran chess tournaments on the weekends. This gave him a sufficient income, and because the tournaments only ran on Saturdays and Sundays, it allowed him to work as a writer five days a week from 1973 to 1976. By the time the chess bubble subsequently burst and no longer provided an income, he had become much better established as a writer.[35][36]

Teaching edit

In the mid-1970s, Martin met English professor George Guthridge from Dubuque, Iowa, at a science fiction convention in Milwaukee. Martin persuaded Guthridge (who later said that at that time he despised science fiction and fantasy) not only to give speculative fiction a second look, but also to write in the field himself. Guthridge has since been a finalist for the Hugo Award and twice for the Nebula Award for science fiction and fantasy. In 1998, Guthridge and Janet Berliner won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Novel for their Children of the Dusk.[37]

In turn, Guthridge helped Martin in finding a job at Clarke University (then Clarke College). Martin "wasn't making enough money to stay alive" from writing and the chess tournaments, says Guthridge.[38] From 1976 to 1978, Martin was an English and journalism instructor at Clarke, and he became Writer In Residence at the college from 1978 to 1979.[39]

Concentration on writing edit

While he enjoyed teaching, the sudden death of friend and fellow author Tom Reamy in late 1977 made Martin reevaluate his own life, and he eventually decided to try to become a full-time writer. In 1979 he resigned from his job and moved from Dubuque to Santa Fe, New Mexico at the end of the year.[40][41] There he would live alone for almost three years, a period he described as tremendously productive in regard of writing.[42]

Martin is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA); he served as the organization's Southwest Regional Director from 1977 to 1979, and as its vice-president from 1996 to 1998.[43] In 1976, for Kansas City's MidAmeriCon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), Martin and his friend and fellow writer-editor Gardner Dozois conceived of and organized the first Hugo Losers' Party for the benefit of all past and present Hugo-losing writers on the evening following the convention's Hugo Awards ceremony. Martin was nominated for two Hugos that year but lost both awards, for the novelette "...and Seven Times Never Kill Man" and the novella The Storms of Windhaven, co-written with Lisa Tuttle.[44] Although Martin often writes fantasy or horror, a number of his earlier works are science fiction tales occurring in a loosely defined future history, known informally as "The Thousand Worlds" or "The Manrealm".

In 2017, Martin recalled that he had started writing science fiction-horror hybrids in the late 1970s to disprove a statement from a critic claiming that science fiction and horror were opposites and therefore incompatible. Martin considered Sandkings (1979) the best known of these. Another was the novella Nightflyers (1980), whose screen and television rights were purchased by Vista in 1984, which produced a 1987 film adaptation, Nightflyers, with a screenplay co-written by Martin.[45] Martin was unhappy about having to cut plot elements in order to accommodate the film's small budget.[46] While not a hit at theatres, Martin believes that the film saved his career, and that everything he has written since exists in large part because of it.[47] He has also written at least one piece of political-military fiction, "Night of the Vampyres", collected in Harry Turtledove's anthology The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001).[48]

In 1982, Martin published a vampire novel titled Fevre Dream set in the 19th century on the Mississippi River. Unlike traditional vampire novels, in Fevre Dream vampires are not supernatural creatures, but are rather a different species related to humans created by evolution with superhuman powers. Critic Don D'Amassa has praised Fevre Dream for its strong 19th century atmosphere and wrote: "This is without question one of the greatest vampire novels of all time".[49] Martin followed up Fevre Dream with another horror novel, The Armageddon Rag (1983). The unexpected commercial failure of The Armageddon Rag "essentially destroyed my career as a novelist at the time", he recalled, and made him consider going into real estate instead.[50]

In 1984, the new editor of Baen Books, Betsy Mitchell, called Martin to ask him if he had considered doing a collection of Haviland Tuf adventures. Martin, who had several favorite series characters like Solomon Kane, Elric, Nicholas van Rijn and Magnus Ridolph, had made an attempt to create such a character on his own in the 1970s with his Tuf stories. He was interested, but was too occupied with the writing of his next book, the never-completed novel Black and White and Red All Over, which occupied most of his writing time the same year. But after the failure of The Armageddon Rag, all editors rejected his upcoming novel, and desperate for money, he accepted Mitchell's offer and wrote some more Tuf stories which were collected in Tuf Voyaging, which sold well enough for Mitchell to suggest a sequel. Martin was willing and agreed to do it, but before he got started he got an offer from Hollywood, where producer Philip DeGuere Jr. wanted to adapt The Armageddon Rag into a film. The film adaptation did not happen, but they stayed in touch, and when DeGuere became the producer for the revival of The Twilight Zone, Martin was offered a job as a writer. Working for television paid a lot better than writing literature, so he decided to move to Hollywood to seek a new career.[23][51][52] At first he worked as staff writer for the show, and then as an executive story consultant.

After the CBS series was cancelled, Martin migrated over to the already-underway satirical science fiction series Max Headroom. He worked on scripts and created the show's "Ped Xing" character. However, before his scripts could go into production, the ABC show was cancelled in the middle of its second season. Martin was hired as a writer-producer on the new dramatic fantasy series Beauty and the Beast; in 1989, he became the show's co-supervising producer and wrote 14 of its episodes.

In 1987, Martin published a collection of short horror stories in Portraits of His Children. During this same period, Martin continued working in print media as a book-series editor, this time overseeing the development of the multi-author Wild Cards book series, which takes place in a shared universe in which a small slice of post–World War II humanity gains superpowers after the release of an alien-engineered virus; new titles are published in the ongoing series from Tor Books. In Second Person, Martin "gives a personal account of the close-knit role-playing game (RPG) culture that gave rise to his Wild Cards shared-world anthologies".[53] An important element in the creation of the multiple author series was a campaign of Chaosium's role-playing game Superworld (1983) that Martin ran in Albuquerque.[54] Admitting he became completely obsessed with the game, he stopped writing literature for most of 1983, which he refers to as his "lost year", but his shrinking bank accounts made him realize he had to come up with something, and got the idea that perhaps the stories and characters created in Superworld could somehow become profitable.[55] Martin's own contributions to Wild Cards have included Thomas Tudbury, "The Great and Powerful Turtle", a powerful psychokinetic whose flying "shell" consisted of an armored VW Beetle. As of June 2011, 21 Wild Cards volumes had been published in the series; earlier that same year, Martin signed the contract for the 22nd volume, Low Ball (2014), published by Tor Books. In early 2012, Martin signed another Tor contract for the 23rd Wild Cards volume, High Stakes, which was released in August 2016.[56]

In August 2016, Martin announced that Universal Cable Productions had acquired the rights to adapt the Wild Cards novels into a television series.[57] He noted that he himself would not write for the adaptation due to focusing on A Song of Ice and Fire.[57]

A Song of Ice and Fire edit

Main article: A Song of Ice and Fire
 
Teaching at Clarion West, 1998

In 1991, Martin briefly returned to writing novels. He had grown frustrated that his TV pilots and screenplays were not getting made[58] and that TV-related production limitations like budgets and episode lengths were forcing him to cut characters and trim battle scenes.[59] This pushed Martin back towards writing books, where he did not have to worry about compromising his imagination.[58] Admiring the works of J. R. R. Tolkien in his childhood, he wanted to write an epic fantasy, though he did not have any specific ideas.[60]

His epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, was inspired by the Wars of the Roses, The Accursed Kings[61] and Ivanhoe. Though Martin originally conceptualized it as being three volumes,[62] it is currently slated to comprise seven. The first, A Game of Thrones, was published in 1996, followed by A Clash of Kings in 1998 and A Storm of Swords in 2000. In November 2005, A Feast for Crows, the fourth novel in this series, became The New York Times No. 1 Bestseller.[63] The fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, was published July 12, 2011, and became an international bestseller, including achieving a No. 1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List[64] and many others; it remained on the New York Times list for 88 weeks.

In 2012, A Dance With Dragons made the final ballot for science fiction and fantasy's Hugo Award,[65] World Fantasy Award,[66] Locus Poll Award, and the British Fantasy Award;[67] the novel went on to win the Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel.[68] Two more novels are planned in the series: The Winds of Winter and the final volume A Dream of Spring.

On April 25, 2018, Martin announced the release date of his new book, Fire & Blood, dealing with the history of House Targaryen, which was released on November 20, 2018.[69] Should Martin die before finishing the A Song of Ice and Fire series, former collaborators have said that they will not conclude the series for him.[70]

HBO adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire edit

Main article: Game of Thrones

HBO Productions purchased the television rights for the A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2007. Although busy completing A Dance With Dragons and other projects, George R. R. Martin was heavily involved in the production of the television series adaptation of his books. Martin's involvement included the selection of a production team and participation in scriptwriting; the opening credits list him as a co-executive producer of the series. The original pilot was shot between October 24 and November 19, 2009, on location in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Morocco.[71] It was received so poorly by HBO executives that they did not make a decision for four months after the pilot was delivered.[72] In March 2010, HBO's decision to greenlight the series was announced,[73] with the production of the series scheduled to start June 2010.[74] HBO however demanded the first episode be reshot, and wanted all the scenes from Morocco scrapped.[75] The first episode ("Winter Is Coming") premiered on HBO in the United States and Canada on April 17, 2011. It was seen initially by 2.2 million viewers. The first season was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, ultimately winning two: one for its opening title credits, and one for Peter Dinklage as Best Supporting Actor.[76]

HBO ordered a second season of Game of Thrones on April 19, 2011, two days after the series premiere.[77] The second season obtained a 15% increase in budget in order to be able to stage the war's most important battle,[78] the Battle of the Blackwater, in episode nine which was written by George R. R. Martin. Filming took place during 106 shooting days. During three-quarters of those, two crews ("Dragon" and "Wolf") were working simultaneously in different locations.[79] Alan Taylor was promoted to co-executive producer and directed four episodes, including the season premiere and finale. David Petrarca and David Nutter each directed two episodes, while series cinematographer Alik Sakharov and filmmaker Neil Marshall directed the remaining two. The second season premiered in the United States on HBO on April 1, 2012, and concluded on June 3, 2012. U.S. viewership rose by approximately 8% over the course of the season, from 3.9 million to 4.2 million by the season finale. The second season won six of the twelve Emmy Awards for which it was nominated.[76]

Game of Thrones rapidly became a critical and commercial success after the second season. HBO renewed the series for a third season on April 10, 2012, nine days after the second season's premiere. Production began in July 2012 [80] and concluded with the wrap of the unit filming in Iceland on November 24, 2012. The third season is based on the first half of the novel A Storm of Swords. Benioff had previously said that A Storm of Swords would need to be adapted in two seasons on account of its length. Benioff and Weiss also noted that they thought of Game of Thrones as an adaptation of the series as a whole, rather than of individual novels, which gave them the liberty to move scenes back and forth across novels according to the requirements of the screen adaptation.[81] Season 3 saw the first significant use of the Valyrian languages, spoken in doomed Valyria and its former colonies in Essos. The constructed languages were developed by linguist David J. Peterson based on the few words Martin invented for the novels. Peterson had previously developed the Dothraki language, used principally in season 1.[82] The third season premiered on HBO on March 31, 2013, and concluded on June 9, 2013. The third season was seen by 14.2 million viewers.[83] It won 2 of the 16 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated.[76]

Two days after third season premiere, HBO ordered the fourth season on April 2, 2013, which began filming in July 2013.[84] The season is adapted primarily from the second half of A Storm of Swords, along with elements of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons. Showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss co-wrote seven out of ten episodes. The remaining three episodes were written by Bryan Cogman (two episodes), and George R. R. Martin (one episode). For this season, the filming lasted 136 days and was completed on November 21, 2013.[85] The fourth season premiered in the United States on HBO on April 6, 2014, and concluded on June 15, 2014. The season was met with largely positive reviews. It won 4 of the 19 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated.[76] With its fourth season, Game of Thrones has become the most-watched HBO series in history (surpassing the fourth season of The Sopranos which had a gross audience of 18.2 million viewers), averaging 18.4 million viewers across multiple platforms, including live viewing, encores, DVR views, HBO GO and On Demand views.[86]

Up until the fourth season, Martin wrote one episode for each season. In 2022, Martin said that he had been estranged from the show during the production process of the last 4 seasons (starting with season 5).[87] In the early seasons, Martin wrote and read scripts, consulted on casting decisions and visited sets. Over time, however, he stepped back to focus on his long-delayed next "Thrones" novel, The Winds of Winter.[87] Following the gargantuan success of the fourth season, HBO ordered the fifth season on April 8, 2014, together with the sixth season, which began filming in July 2014. The season primarily adapts the storylines from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, also with original content not found in Martin's novels. This season set a Guinness World Record for winning the highest number of Emmy Awards for a series in a single season and year, winning 12 out of 24 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.[88]

With a budget over $100 million for the whole season, filming for the sixth season began in July 2015 and ended on December. The season filmed in five different countries: Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Iceland, and Canada. This season saw the overall plot of the show diverging from the source material. Some of the season's storyline is derived from content not yet published in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, although a significant amount of material from A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter, which Martin previously outlined to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, was used.[89] The season was largely met with positive reviews.[90] The "Battle of the Bastards" episode received immense critical acclaim, with many calling it one of the best television episodes of all time.[91] U.S. viewership rose compared to the previous season, and by approximately 13 percent over its course, from 7.9 million to 8.9 million by the finale. The season won 12 of the 23 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated.[76]

Three days before the premiere of the episode "The Red Woman", HBO ordered the seventh season. Due to necessary weather conditions required for filming, the production of the penultimate season of the show was delayed that year.[92] Filming began only on August 31, 2016, at Titanic Studios in Belfast,[93] and ended in February 2017.[94] Unlike previous seasons, the seventh and eighth seasons largely consisted of original content not found in the source material. This season comprised only seven episodes. The showrunners stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14 month time frame, as Weiss said "It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule".[95] The average runtime of an episode in this season was approximately 63 minutes. The series received 22 nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards and won 9 of them, including "Outstanding Drama Series".[96]

Unlike its prior seasons, the final one took a year gap for its production and filming. The eighth season consisted of only six episodes, though the average runtime of an episode was 68 minutes, the longest of all seasons, with "The Long Night" consisting of 81 minutes. The season was met with mixed reviews from critics. While the performances, production values and music score were praised, criticism was mainly directed at the shorter runtime of the season as well as numerous creative decisions made by the showrunners. Many commentators deemed it to be a disappointing conclusion to the series. The season received 32 nominations at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, the most for a single season of television in history. It won twelve, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage.[97]

Three years after the show ended, a prequel series, House of the Dragon, premiered on HBO in August 21, 2022. Based on parts of the novel Fire & Blood, the series is set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik served as the showrunners for the first season. Five days after its premiere, the series was renewed for a second season by HBO. On September 1, Sapochnik departed as showrunner,[98] with another veteran Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor replacing him as the co-showrunner for the upcoming second season.[99]

In June 2022, it was reported that a Jon Snow sequel series with Kit Harington to reprise his role was in early development at HBO.[100] The working title is Snow and Martin confirmed his involvement with the project and that Harington initiated the idea.[101] Also in June, Martin said there were still three other live-action series in development: 10,000 Ships (written by Amanda Segal), 9 Voyages aka Sea Snake (written by Bruno Heller), and the Dunk & Egg prequel series (written by Steven Conrad), tentatively titled either The Hedge Knight or Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.[101]

In January 2021, an animated drama series was announced as in development at HBO Max.[102] In July 2021, two more animated series were in development at HBO Max, with one being set in Yi Ti, a nation in Essos loosely based on Imperial China.[103]

Themes edit

See also: Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire

Martin's work has been described as having "complex story lines, fascinating characters, great dialogue, perfect pacing" by literary critic Jeff VanderMeer.[104] Dana Jennings of the New York Times described Martin's work as "fantasy for grown ups"[105] and Lev Grossman wrote that it was dark and cynical.[106] Martin's first novel, Dying of the Light, set the tone for some of his future work; it unfolds on a mostly abandoned planet that is slowly becoming uninhabitable as it moves away from its sun. This story has a strong sense of melancholy. His characters are often unhappy or, at least, unsatisfied, in many cases holding on to idealisms in spite of an otherwise chaotic and ruthless world, and often troubled by their own self-seeking or violent actions, even as they undertake them. Many have elements of tragic heroes or antiheroes in them; reviewer T. M. Wagner writes: "Let it never be said Martin doesn't share Shakespeare's fondness for the senselessly tragic."[107]

 
Martin in November 2016

The overall gloominess of A Song of Ice and Fire can be an obstacle for some readers; the Inchoatus Group writes that, "If this absence of joy is going to trouble you, or you're looking for something more affirming, then you should probably seek elsewhere."[108] However, for many fans, it is precisely this level of "realness" and "completeness"–including many characters' imperfections, moral and ethical ambiguity, and (often sudden) consequential plot twists that is endearing about Martin's work. Many find that this is what makes the series' story arcs compelling enough to keep following despite its sheer brutality and intricately messy and interwoven plotlines; as TM Wagner points out:

There's great tragedy here, but there's also excitement, humor, heroism even in weaklings, nobility even in villains, and, now and then, a taste of justice after all. It's a rare gift when a writer can invest his story with that much humanity.[107]

Martin's characters are multifaceted, each with intricate pasts, aspirations, and ambitions. Publishers Weekly writes of his ongoing epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire: "The complexity of characters such as Daenerys, Arya and the Kingslayer will keep readers turning even the vast number of pages contained in this volume, for the author, like Tolkien or Jordan, makes us care about their fates."[109] Misfortune, injury, and death (including false death and reanimation) often befall major or minor characters, no matter how attached the reader has become. Martin has described his penchant for killing off important characters as being necessary for the story's depth: "when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page, (so) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps".[110]

In distinguishing his work from others, Martin makes a point of emphasizing realism and plausible social dynamics above an over-reliance on magic and a simplistic "good versus evil" dichotomy, for which contemporary fantasy writing is often criticized. Notably, Martin's work makes a sharp departure from the prevalent "heroic knights and chivalry" schema that has become a mainstay in fantasy as derived from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He specifically critiques the oversimplification of Tolkien's themes and devices by imitators in ways that he has humorously described as "Disneyland Middle Ages",[111] which gloss over or ignore major differences between medieval and modern societies, particularly social structures, ways of living, and political arrangements. Martin has been described as "the American Tolkien" by literary critics.[112] While Martin finds inspiration in Tolkien's legacy,[113] he aims to go beyond what he sees as Tolkien's "medieval philosophy" of "if the king was a good man, the land would prosper" to delve into the complexities, ambiguities, and vagaries of real-life power: "We look at real history and it's not that simple... Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king."[114] Per this fact Martin has been credited with the rise of grimdark fantasy, a modern form of an "anti-Tolkien" approach to fantasy writing which,[115] according to British science fiction and fantasy novelist Adam Roberts, is characterized by its reaction to Tolkien's idealism even though it owes a lot to Tolkien's work.[116][117] The Canadian fantasy writer R. Scott Bakker "says he wouldn't have been able to publish his fantasy novels without the success George R. R. Martin achieved first".[118] Similarly, Mark Lawrence, author of Prince of Thorns, was inspired by Martin and impressed by his Red Wedding scene.[119]

The author makes a point of grounding his work on a foundation of historical fiction, which he channels to evoke important social and political elements of primarily the European medieval era that differ markedly from elements of modern times, including the multigenerational, rigid, and often brutally consequential nature of the hierarchical class system of feudal societies[120] that is in many cases overlooked in fantasy writing. Even as A Song of Ice and Fire is a fantasy series that employs magic and the surreal as central to the genre, Martin is keen to ensure that magic is merely one element of many that moves his work forward,[121] not a generic deus ex machina that is itself the focus of his stories, which is something he has been very conscious about since reading Tolkien; "If you look at The Lord of the Rings, what strikes you, it certainly struck me, is that although the world is infused with this great sense of magic, there is very little onstage magic. So you have a sense of magic, but it's kept under very tight control, and I really took that to heart when I was starting my own series."[122] Martin's ultimate aim is an exploration of the internal conflicts that define the human condition, which, in deriving inspiration from William Faulkner,[123] he ultimately describes as the only reason to read any literature, regardless of genre.[124]

In 2018, Martin called The Lord of the Rings, The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, Great Expectations, Lonesome Dove, Catch-22, and Charlotte's Web "favorites all, towering masterpieces, books that changed my life".[125]

Producing edit

In 2017, Martin confirmed he would serve as an executive producer of the HBO television series adaptation of the 2010 science fantasy novel Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.[126] Martin also contributed to the 2022 video game titled Elden Ring, writing the worldbuilding aspects for it.[127][128] In February 2021, it was reported that Martin and Kalinda Vazquez were developing a TV adaptation of Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny, which Martin pitched to HBO in 2020. Martin will be an executive producer, Vazquez the showrunner, writer and executive producer.[129] In March 2021, he signed an overall deal with HBO.[130] Martin will serve as an executive producer of the Peacock TV adaptation in development of his Wild Cards book series, together with Melinda M. Snodgrass and Vince Gerardis, Martin's manager.[131] He will serve as an executive producer of the 2022 AMC series Dark Winds based on Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn & Chee books, together with the creator Graham Roland, the showrunner Vince Calandra, the lead Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Chris Eyre, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince Gerardis.[132] In 2021, Martin served as one of the producers of the short film Night of the Cooters based on the eponymous short story by Howard Waldrop.[133][134]

Relationship with fans edit

 
Martin signing books in a bookstore in Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 2011)

Martin actively contributes to his blog, Not a Blog; in April 2018, he moved his blog from Livejournal to his own website.[135]

Martin's official fan club is the "Brotherhood Without Banners", which has a regular posting board at the Forum of the website westeros.org, which is focused on his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. At the annual World Science Fiction Convention every year, the Brotherhood Without Banners hosts a large, on-going hospitality suite that is open to all members of the Worldcon.[136]

Martin is opposed to fan fiction, which he views as copyright infringement and a bad exercise for aspiring writers in terms of developing skills in worldbuilding and character development.[137][138]

Conventions edit

Martin is known for his regular attendance at science fiction conventions and comics conventions, and his accessibility to fans. In the early 1980s, critic and writer Thomas Disch identified Martin as a member of the "Labor Day Group", writers who regularly congregated at the annual Worldcon, usually held on or around the Labor Day weekend. Since the early 1970s, he has also attended regional science fiction conventions; further, since 1986, Martin has participated annually in Albuquerque's smaller regional convention Bubonicon, near his New Mexico home.[139][140] He was the Guest of Honor at the 61st World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto, held in 2003.[141][142]

In December 2016, Martin was a key speaker at the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2016 in Mexico where the author provided hints about the next two books in the series A Song of Ice and Fire.[143]

In 2020, Martin fulfilled his duties as “toastmaster” of the Hugo Awards. During the event, he mispronounced several names, including that of R. F. Kuang, which she considered a microaggression. Martin later apologized for mispronouncing the names.[144][145]

Criticism edit

Martin has been criticized by some of his readers for the long periods between books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, notably the six-year gap between the fourth volume, A Feast for Crows (2005), and the fifth volume, A Dance with Dragons (2011).[146][147] In 2010, Martin had responded to fan criticisms by saying he was unwilling to write only his A Song of Ice and Fire series, noting that working on other prose and compiling and editing different book projects have always been part of his working process.[148]

Personal life edit

 
Martin at LoneStarCon 3 (the 71st World Science Fiction Convention), 2013

In the early 1970s, Martin was in a relationship with fellow science fiction/fantasy author Lisa Tuttle, with whom he co-wrote Windhaven.[149]

While attending an East Coast science fiction convention he met his first wife, Gale Burnick; they were married in 1975 and moved from their Chicago apartment and into a house in Dubuque in 1976. Both of them grew tired of the hard winters there, and when she graduated from Clarke in June 1979, he resigned from his job and they decided to move to New Mexico. The year before they had "fallen in love" with Santa Fe on their way to the worldcon in Phoenix. His wife went down and bought a house while Martin stayed behind to sell their home and finish the semester. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979,[150] before they could be reunited in Santa Fe. Instead he settled there alone from December that same year until September 1981, when what would be his longtime partner Parris McBride moved in with him.[151][152][42] On February 15, 2011, Martin married McBride during a small ceremony at their Santa Fe home. On August 19, 2011, they held a larger wedding ceremony and reception at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention.[153]

He and McBride are supporters of the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico.[154] In early 2013, he purchased Santa Fe's Jean Cocteau Cinema and Coffee House, which had been closed since 2006. He had the property completely restored, including both its original 35mm capability to which was added digital projection and sound; the Cocteau officially reopened for business on August 9, 2013.[155] In 2019, he opened a bookstore named Beastly Books, after Beauty and the Beast, next to Jean Cocteau.[156] Martin has also supported Meow Wolf, an arts collective in Santa Fe, having pledged $2.7 million toward a new art space in January 2015.[157][158]

In response to a question on his religious views, Martin replied: "I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that makes any sense whatsoever."[159]

Martin is a fan of the New York Jets, the New York Giants and the New York Mets.[160][161][162] He is also a fan of the Grateful Dead, and says that the band's music may have influenced his work.[163]

Martin made a guest appearance as himself in an episode, "El Skeletorito", of the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken.[164] He also appeared in SyFy's Z Nation as a zombie version of himself in season two's "The Collector", where he is still signing copies of his new novel.[165][166] In Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, he is killed when watching a movie at the theatre.[167]

Philanthropy edit

In 2014, Martin launched a campaign on Prizeo to raise funds for Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and the Food Depot of Santa Fe. As part of the campaign, Martin offered one donor the chance to accompany him on a trip to the wolf sanctuary, including a helicopter ride and dinner. Martin also offered those donating $20,000 or more the opportunity to have a character named after them and "killed off" in an upcoming A Song of Ice and Fire novel. The campaign garnered media attention and raised a total of $502,549.[168][169]

In 2017, Martin announced that he was funding The Miskatonic Scholarship. The Miskatonic Scholarship allows a writer of Lovecraftian cosmic horror to attend the Odyssey Writing Workshop, a six-week writing workshop held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.[170][171]

Politics edit

Growing up, Martin avoided the draft to the Vietnam War by being a conscientious objector and did two years of alternative service. He generally opposes war and thought the Vietnam War was a "terrible mistake for America".[172]

While he did not endorse Barack Obama in 2008, Martin endorsed him for re-election in 2012 calling Obama the most intelligent president since Jimmy Carter.[173] In 2014, Martin endorsed Democratic Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico.[174]

In the midst of pressure to pull the 2014 feature film The Interview from theaters, the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which has been owned by Martin since 2013, decided to show the film. Theater manager Jon Bowman told the Santa Fe New Mexican, "Martin feels strongly about the First Amendment and the idea of artists having the ability to speak their minds and not having to worry about being targets."[175]

Immediately following Bernie Sanders' defeat in the U.S. Democratic primary elections, he supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general 2016 United States presidential election, and criticized Donald Trump during the election and following her defeat, commenting that Trump would "become the worst president in American history".[176][177][178] In response to fans of Martin who compared Trump favorably to characters from A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin doubled-down on his criticism of Trump by making the case to his fans that Trump shares many personality traits in common with King Joffrey, a near-universally hated character from the series, concluding that "Trump is a Grown-Up Joffrey."[179][180]

In May 2019, Martin endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020.[181]

Awards and honors edit

Awards and nominations edit

Award Year Category Recipient(s) Result Notes Ref.
Bram Stoker Award 1988 Best Long Fiction The Pear-Shaped Man Won [182]
British Fantasy Award 2006 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel A Feast for Crows Nominated
Goodreads Choice Awards 2011 Best Fantasy A Dance with Dragons Won [183]
Hugo Award 1975 Best Novella A Song for Lya Won [184]
1980 Best Novelette Sandkings Won [185]
Best Short Story The Way of Cross and Dragon Won
1997 Best Novella Blood of the Dragon Won [186]
2001 Best Novel A Storm of Swords Nominated [187]
2006 A Feast for Crows Nominated [188]
2012 A Dance with Dragons Nominated [189]
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Game of Thrones (Season 1) Won writer [190]
2013 Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Game of Thrones (Episode: "Blackwater") Won screenwriter [191]
Locus Award 1976 Best Novella The Storms of Windhaven Won co-authored with Lisa Tuttle [192]
1977 Best Author Collection A Song for Lya and Other Stories Won [193]
1980 Best Novelette Sandkings Won [194]
Best Short Story The Way of Cross and Dragon Won [195]
1981 Best Novella Nightflyers Won [192]
1982 Best Novelette Guardians Won [196]
Best Single Author Collection Sandkings Won [193]
1984 Best Novelette The Monkey Treatment Won [196]
1997 Best Fantasy Novel A Game of Thrones Won
1999 A Clash of Kings Won
2001 A Storm of Swords Won
2011 Best Original Anthology Warriors Won co-edited with Gardner Dozois
2012 Best Fantasy Novel A Dance with Dragons Won
2014 Best Original Anthology Old Mars Won co-edited with Gardner Dozois [197]
2015 Rogues Won co-edited with Gardner Dozois
2016 Old Venus Won co-edited with Gardner Dozois
Nebula Award 1979 Best Novelette Sandkings Won [196]
1985 Portraits of His Children Won [196]
1997 Best Novel A Game of Thrones Nominated [198]
1999 A Clash of Kings Nominated
2001 A Storm of Swords Nominated
2023 Best Game Writing Elden Ring Won co-writing with Hidetaka Miyazaki
An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 International Recognition Award Himself Won Honorary award [199]
Premio Ignotus 2003 Best Foreign Novel A Game of Thrones Won
2004 A Clash of Kings Won
2006 A Storm of Swords Won
2004 Foreign Short Story The Ice Dragon Won
2005 Path of the Dragon Won
Primetime Emmy Awards 1988 Outstanding Drama Series Beauty and the Beast (Season 1) Nominated producer [200]
1989 Beauty and the Beast (Season 2) Nominated producer [200]
2011 Game of Thrones (Season 1) Nominated co-executive producer [200]
2012 Game of Thrones (Season 2) Nominated co-executive producer [200]
2013 Game of Thrones (Season 3) Nominated co-executive producer [200]
2014 Game of Thrones (Season 4) Nominated co-executive producer [200]
2015 Game of Thrones (Season 5) Won co-executive producer [200]
2016 Game of Thrones (Season 6) Won co-executive producer [200]
2018 Game of Thrones (Season 7) Won co-executive producer [200]
2019 Game of Thrones (Season 8) Won co-executive producer [200]
2024 House of the Dragon (Season 1) Nominated co-executive producer [200]
Quill Award 2006 Best Novel (Science Fiction & Fantasy) A Feast for Crows Nominated
World Fantasy Award 1989 Best Novella The Skin Trade Won
2012 Life Achievement Himself Won Honorary award
2014 Best Original Anthology Dangerous Women Won co-edited with Gardner Dozois
Geffen Award 2002 Best Fantasy Book A Storm of Swords Won
2013 A Dance with Dragons Won
Seiun Award 1983 Foreign Short Fiction Nightflyers Won

State and academic honors edit

State and academic honors for Martin
Country or organization Year Award Ref(s)
New Jersey Hall of Fame 2019 Arts & Entertainment
Northwestern University 2015 Medill Hall of Achievement Award [201]
2021 Doctor of Humane Letters [202]

Bibliography edit

Works edit

Title Year Type Note
"The Hero" 1971 Short story Galaxy Magazine
"The Second Kind of Loneliness" 1972 Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"Override" 1973
With Morning Comes Mistfall
A Song for Lya 1974 Novella Hugo Award for Best Novella 1975
"And Seven Times Never Kill Man" 1975 Short story Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr"[203] 1976 Short story Fantastic Stories
A Song for Lya Short story collection
"Nobody Leaves New Pittsburg" Short story Amazing Science Fiction Stories
"This Tower of Ashes" Analog Annual
Dying of the Light 1977 Novel
Songs of Stars and Shadows Short story collection
"Sandkings" 1979 Novelette Hugo Award & Nebula Award for Best Novelette 1980
"The Way of Cross and Dragon" Short story Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1980
"The Ice Dragon" 1980 Young adult fiction Illustrated by Alicia Austin as part of Dragons of Light, and Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 2006
Nightflyers Novella
Windhaven 1981 Fix-up novel with Lisa Tuttle
Sandkings Short story collection
Fevre Dream 1982 Novel
"In the Lost Lands" Short story Amazons II anthology
To be adapted into a film[204]
Songs the Dead Men Sing 1983 Short story collection
The Armageddon Rag Novel
Nightflyers and Other Stories 1985 Short story collection
Heroes for Hope Comic-book script X-Men comic fundraiser
Tuf Voyaging 1986 Fix-up novel
"The Glass Flower" Short story
Portraits of His Children 1987 Short story collection
The Skin Trade 1989 Novella Dark Visions compilation
Blood of the Dragon 1996 Novella Chapter set book of A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones 1996 Novel A Song of Ice and Fire
The Hedge Knight 1998 Novella Tales of Dunk and Egg (A Song of Ice and Fire prequel)
A Clash of Kings Novel A Song of Ice and Fire
A Storm of Swords 2000
Path of the Dragon 2000 Novella Chapter set book of A Song of Ice and Fire
Quartet 2001 Short story collection
Arms of the Kraken 2002 Novella Chapter set book of A Song of Ice and Fire
GRRM: A RRetrospective 2003 Short story & essay collection
The Sworn Sword Novella Tales of Dunk and Egg (A Song of Ice and Fire prequel)
A Feast for Crows 2005 Novel A Song of Ice and Fire
Hunter's Run 2007 with Gardner Dozois & Daniel Abraham
The Mystery Knight 2010 Novella Tales of Dunk and Egg (A Song of Ice and Fire prequel)
A Dance with Dragons 2011 Novel A Song of Ice and Fire
The Lands of Ice and Fire 2012 Map collection from the A Song of Ice and Fire world
The Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister 2013 Quote collection from A Song of Ice and Fire
The Princess and the Queen Novella A Song of Ice and Fire prequels[205][206]
The Rogue Prince 2014 Novelette
The World of Ice & Fire Reference book The history of Westeros, with Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson
The Ice Dragon Young adult illustrated novella Reworked version of the original novella published in 1980, illustrated by Luis Royo[207]
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 2015 Collection compilation of the first three Tales of Dunk and Egg[208]
The Sons of the Dragon 2017 Novella A Song of Ice and Fire prequel[209][210]
Fire & Blood 2018 novella collection/ Fix-up novel The history of House Targaryen
The Rise of the Dragon 2022 Reference book The history of House Targaryen, with Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson
The Winds of Winter TBD Novel A Song of Ice and Fire
A Dream of Spring
Blood & Fire novella collection/ Fix-up novel Second volume of Fire & Blood
The She-Wolves of Winterfell Novella Conceived as future installments of Tales of Dunk and Egg
The Village Hero
The Sellsword
The Champion
The Kingsguard
The Lord Commander

Novels edit

A Song of Ice and Fire universe:

Stand-alones:

Children's novels edit

Short stories edit

Collections:

  • A Song for Lya, or A Song for Lya and Other Stories (1976), collection of 8 short stories and 2 novellas/novelettes:
    "With Morning Comes Mistfall", "The Second Kind of Loneliness", "Override" (novelette), "Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels", "The Hero", "FTA", "Run to Starlight", "The Exit to San Breta", "Slide Show", "A Song for Lya" (novella)
  • Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977), collection of 8 short stories and 1 novelette:
    "This Tower of Ashes", "Patrick Henry, Jupiter, and the Little Red Brick Spaceship", "Men of Greywater Station", "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr", "Night of the Vampyres", "The Runners", "Night Shift", "...For a Single Yesterday", "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" (novelette)
  • Sandkings (1981), collection of 3 short stories and 4 novelettes:
    "The Way of Cross and Dragon" (novelette), "Bitterblooms" (novelette), "In the House of the Worm", "Fast-Friend", "The Stone City" (novelette), "Starlady", "Sandkings" (novelette)
  • Songs the Dead Men Sing (1983), collection of 5 short stories and 4 novelettes/novellas:
    "The Monkey Treatment" (novelette), "...For a Single Yesterday", "In the House of the Worm", "The Needle Men", "Meathouse Man" (novelette), "Sandkings" (novelette), "This Tower of Ashes", "Nightflyers" (novella), "Remembering Melody"
  • Nightflyers, or Nightflyers and Other Stories (1985), collection of 6 novelettes/novellas:
    "Nightflyers" (novella), "Override" (novelette), "Weekend in a War Zone" (novelette), "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" (novelette), "Nor the Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring" (novelette), "A Song for Lya" (novella)
  • Portraits of His Children (1987), collection of 5 short stories and 6 novelettes/novellas:
    "With Morning Comes Mistfall", "The Second Kind of Loneliness", "The Last Super Bowl" (novelette), "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr", "The Ice Dragon" (novelette), "In the Lost Lands", "Unsound Variations" (novella), "Closing Time", "Under Siege" (novelette), "The Glass Flower" (novelette), "Portraits of His Children" (novelette)
  • Quartet (2001), collection of 1 short story and 3 novellas:
    "Blood of the Dragon" (novella part of A Game of Thrones), "Black and White and Red All Over", "Starport" (novella), "Skin Trade" (novella)
  • Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective, or GRRM: A RRetrospective (2003), collection of 11 short stories, 21 novelettes/novellas and 2 screenplays:
    A Four-Color Fanboy: "Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark", "The Fortress", "And Death His Legacy"
    The Filthy Pro: "The Hero", "The Exit to San Breta", "The Second Kind of Loneliness", "With Morning Comes Mistfall"
    The Light of Distant Stars: "A Song for Lya" (novella), "This Tower of Ashes", "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" (novelette), "The Stone City" (novelette), "Bitterblooms" (novelette), "The Way of Cross and Dragon" (novelette)
    The Heirs of Turtle Castle: "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr", "The Ice Dragon" (novelette), "In the Lost Lands"
    Hybrids and Horrors: "Meathouse Man" (novelette), "Remembering Melody", "Sandkings" (novelette), "Nightflyers" (novella), "The Monkey Treatment" (novelette), "The Pear-Shaped Man" (novelette)
    A Taste of Tuf: "A Beast for Norn" (novelette part of Tuf Voyaging), "Guardians" (novelette part of Tuf Voyaging)
    The Siren Song of Hollywood: "The Road Less Traveled" (screenplay), "Doorways" (screenplay)
    Doing the Wild Card Shuffle: "Shell Games" (novelette), "From the Journal of Xavier Desmond" (novella)
    The Heart in Conflict: "Under Siege" (novelette), "The Skin Trade" (novella), "Unsound Variations" (novella), "The Glass Flower" (novelette), "The Hedge Knight" (novella; series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms #1), "Portraits of His Children" (novelette)

Uncollected short stories:

  • "Nobody Leaves New Pittsburg" (1976)

Editor edit

  • New Voices in Science Fiction (1977: new stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)
  • New Voices in Science Fiction 2 (1979: more new stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)
  • New Voices in Science Fiction 3 (1980: more new stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)
  • New Voices in Science Fiction 4 (1981: more new stories by the John W. Campbell Award winners)
  • The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book (1983) edited with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg ("Stories by the Great Science Fiction Writers on Fat, Thin, and Everything in Between")
  • The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5 (1984, continuation of the New Voices in Science Fiction series)
  • Night Visions 3 (1986)

Wild Cards series editor (also contributor to many volumes) edit

  • Wild Cards (1987; contents expanded in 2010 edition with three new stories/authors)
  • Wild Cards II: Aces High (1987)
  • Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild (1987)
  • Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad (1988; Book I of the Puppetman Quartet; contents expanded in 2015 edition with two new stories/authors)
  • Wild Cards V: Down & Dirty (1988; Book II of the Puppetman Quartet)
  • Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole (1990; Book III of the Puppetman Quartet)
  • Wild Cards VII: Dead Man's Hand (1990; Book IV of the Puppetman Quartet)
  • Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks (1991; Book I of the Rox Triad)
  • Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle (1991; Book II of the Rox Triad)
  • Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire (1992)
  • Wild Cards XI: Dealer's Choice (1992; Book III of the Rox Triad)
  • Wild Cards XII: Turn of the Cards (1993)
  • Wild Cards XIII: Card Sharks (1993; Book I of the Card Shark Triad)
  • Wild Cards XIV: Marked Cards (1994; Book II of the Card Shark Triad)
  • Wild Cards XV: Black Trump (1995; Book III of the Card Shark Triad)
  • Wild Cards XVI: Deuces Down (2002)
  • Wild Cards XVII: Death Draws Five (2006; solo novel by John J. Miller)
  • Wild Cards XVIII: Inside Straight (2008; Book I of The Committee triad)
  • Wild Cards XIX: Busted Flush (2008; Book II of The Committee triad)
  • Wild Cards XX: Suicide Kings (2009; Book III of The Committee triad)
  • Wild Cards XXI: Fort Freak (2011; Book I of the Mean Streets Triad)
  • Wild Cards XXII: Lowball (2014; Book II of the Mean Streets Triad)
  • Wild Cards XXIII: High Stakes (2016; Book III of the Mean Streets Triad)[56]
  • Wild Cards XXIV: Mississippi Roll (2017; Book I of the American Triad)
  • Wild Cards XXV: Low Chicago (2018; Book II of the American Triad)
  • Wild Cards XXVI: Texas Hold 'Em (2018; Book III of the American Triad)
  • Wild Cards XXVII: Knaves Over Queens (2019; Book I of the British Arc)
  • Wild Cards XXVIII: Three Kings (2020; Book II of the British Arc)
  • Wild Cards XXIX: Joker Moon (2021)
  • Wild Cards XXX: Full House (2022)
  • Wild Cards XXXI: Pairing Up (TBA)[211]

Cross-genre anthologies edited (with Gardner Dozois) edit

  • Songs of the Dying Earth (2009; a tribute anthology to Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, first published by Subterranean Press)
  • Warriors (2010; a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about war and warriors; winner of the 2011 Locus Poll Award for Best Original Anthology)
  • Songs of Love and Death (2010; a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of romance in fantasy and science fiction settings, originally entitled Star Crossed Lovers)
  • Down These Strange Streets (2011; a cross-genre anthology that blends classic detective stories with fantasy and science fiction)
  • Old Mars (2013; a science fiction anthology featuring all new, retro-themed stories about the Red Planet)[212]
  • Dangerous Women (2013;[213] a cross-genre anthology focusing on women warriors and strong female characters, originally titled Femmes Fatale)[214]
  • Rogues (2014; a cross-genre anthology featuring new stories about assorted rogues)[212]
  • Old Venus (2015 publication; an anthology of all new, retro-themed Venus science fiction stories)[212][215]

Filmography edit

Film edit

Year Title Actor Writer Producer Notes
1987 Nightflyers No Yes No
2015 Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Yes No No Himself
2018 Meow Wolf: Origin Story No No Yes Documentary, Himself and executive producer

Television edit

Year Title Actor Writer Producer Notes
1984 The Hitchhiker No Yes No based on Short Story Remembering Melody
1986 The Twilight Zone No Yes No five episodes
1987–1990 Beauty and the Beast Yes Yes Yes wrote 13 episodes, producer and co-supervising producer, role: Restaurant Patron
1992 Doorways No Yes Yes unaired pilot, executive producer
1995, 2002 The Outer Limits No Yes No episodes The Sandkings and Final Appeal based on Sandkings
2011–2019 Game of Thrones Yes Yes Yes wrote "The Pointy End", "Blackwater", "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", "The Lion and the Rose", co-executive producer, cameo in original unaired pilot
2014 Robot Chicken Yes No No roles: George R. R. Martin/Father (voices)
2015 Z Nation Yes No No Himself
2018 Nightflyers No Yes Yes based on the novella and series of short stories of the same name; executive producer
2022–present House of the Dragon No No Yes creator and executive producer
2022–present Dark Winds No No Yes Executive producer

Video games edit

Year Title Actor Writer Producer Notes
2012 Game of Thrones No No Yes Executive producer
2022 Elden Ring No Yes No Worldbuilding

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January 01, 1970
george, martin, george, raymond, richard, martin, born, george, raymond, martin, september, 1948, also, known, grrm, american, novelist, screenwriter, television, producer, short, story, writer, author, series, epic, fantasy, novels, song, fire, which, were, a. George Raymond Richard Martin 1 born George Raymond Martin September 20 1948 2 also known as GRRM 3 is an American novelist screenwriter television producer and short story writer He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire which were adapted into the Emmy Award winning HBO series Game of Thrones 2011 2019 and its prequel series House of the Dragon 2022 present He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series and contributed worldbuilding for Elden Ring George R R MartinMartin in 2017BornGeorge Raymond Martin 1948 09 20 September 20 1948 age 75 Bayonne New Jersey U S OccupationNovelistscreenwritershort story writerEducationNorthwestern University BS MS GenreFantasyhorrorscience fictionNotable worksA Song of Ice and FireWild Cards anthology seriesThe Thousand World storiesSpousesGale Burnick m 1975 div 1979 wbr Parris McBride m 2011 wbr SignatureWebsiteOfficial website In 2005 Lev Grossman of Time called Martin the American Tolkien 4 5 6 and in 2011 he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world 7 8 He is a longtime resident of Santa Fe New Mexico where he helped fund Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema 9 10 11 The city commemorates March 29 as George R R Martin Day 12 13 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Early writing career 2 2 Teaching 2 3 Concentration on writing 2 4 A Song of Ice and Fire 2 4 1 HBO adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire 2 5 Themes 3 Producing 4 Relationship with fans 4 1 Conventions 4 2 Criticism 5 Personal life 6 Philanthropy 7 Politics 8 Awards and honors 8 1 Awards and nominations 8 2 State and academic honors 9 Bibliography 9 1 Works 9 1 1 Novels 9 1 2 Children s novels 9 1 3 Short stories 9 2 Editor 9 2 1 Wild Cards series editor also contributor to many volumes 9 2 2 Cross genre anthologies edited with Gardner Dozois 10 Filmography 10 1 Film 10 2 Television 10 3 Video games 11 References 12 External linksEarly life editGeorge Raymond Martin he adopted the confirmation name Richard at 13 years old 2 was born on September 20 1948 14 in Bayonne New Jersey 15 the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin His mother s family had once been wealthy owning a successful construction business but lost it all in the Great Depression something Martin was reminded about every day when he passed what used to be his family s dock and house 16 He has two younger sisters Darleen and Jane He is predominantly of Irish descent 17 a DNA test on the series Finding Your Roots showed him to be 53 6 British and Irish 22 4 Ashkenazi Jewish and 15 6 Broadly Northwestern European 18 19 The family first lived in a house on Broadway belonging to Martin s great grandmother In 1953 they moved to a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks 20 During Martin s childhood his world consisted predominantly of First Street to Fifth Street between his grade school and his home This limited world made him want to travel and experience other places but the only way of doing so was through his imagination and he became a voracious reader 21 Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children dramatic readings included He had to stop once a customer s mother complained about her child s nightmares 22 He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles the turtles died frequently in their toy castle so he decided they were killing each other off in sinister plots 23 Martin had a habit of starting endless stories that he never completed as they did not turn out as well on paper as he had imagined them 24 Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and later Marist High School While there he became an avid comic book fan developing a strong interest in the superheroes being published by Marvel Comics 25 and later credited Stan Lee for being one of his greatest literary influences Maybe Stan Lee is the greatest literary influence on me even more than Shakespeare or Tolkien 26 A letter Martin wrote to the editor of Fantastic Four was printed in issue 20 November 1963 it was the first of many sent e g Fantastic Four 32 34 and others Fans who read his letters wrote him letters in turn and through such contacts Martin joined the fledgling comics fandom of the era writing fiction for various fanzines 27 he bought the first ticket to the world s first Comic Con held in New York in 1964 28 29 In 1965 Martin won comic fandom s Alley Award for Best Fan Fiction for his prose superhero story Powerman vs The Blue Barrier 30 In 1970 Martin earned a B S in journalism with a minor in history from Northwestern University s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston Illinois graduating summa cum laude he went on to complete his M S in Journalism in 1971 also from Medill 31 Eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War to which he objected Martin applied for and obtained conscientious objector status 32 he instead did alternative service work for two years 1972 1974 as a VISTA volunteer attached to the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation 31 Career editEarly writing career edit Martin began selling science fiction short stories professionally in 1970 at age 21 His first sale was The Hero sold to Galaxy magazine and published in its February 1971 issue other sales soon followed His first story to be nominated for the Hugo Award 33 and Nebula Awards was With Morning Comes Mistfall published in 1973 in Analog magazine In 1975 his story for a single yesterday about a post apocalyptic timetripper was selected for inclusion in Epoch a science fiction anthology edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg His first novel Dying of the Light was completed in 1976 right before he moved to Dubuque and published in 1977 That same year the enormous success of Star Wars had a huge impact on the publishing industry and science fiction and he sold the novel for the same amount he would make in three years of teaching 34 The short stories he was able to sell in his early 20s gave him some profit but not enough to pay his bills which prevented him from becoming the full time writer he wanted to be The need for a day job occurred simultaneously with the American chess craze which followed Bobby Fischer s victory in the 1972 world chess championship Martin s own chess skills and experience allowed him to be hired as a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association which ran chess tournaments on the weekends This gave him a sufficient income and because the tournaments only ran on Saturdays and Sundays it allowed him to work as a writer five days a week from 1973 to 1976 By the time the chess bubble subsequently burst and no longer provided an income he had become much better established as a writer 35 36 Teaching edit In the mid 1970s Martin met English professor George Guthridge from Dubuque Iowa at a science fiction convention in Milwaukee Martin persuaded Guthridge who later said that at that time he despised science fiction and fantasy not only to give speculative fiction a second look but also to write in the field himself Guthridge has since been a finalist for the Hugo Award and twice for the Nebula Award for science fiction and fantasy In 1998 Guthridge and Janet Berliner won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Novel for their Children of the Dusk 37 In turn Guthridge helped Martin in finding a job at Clarke University then Clarke College Martin wasn t making enough money to stay alive from writing and the chess tournaments says Guthridge 38 From 1976 to 1978 Martin was an English and journalism instructor at Clarke and he became Writer In Residence at the college from 1978 to 1979 39 Concentration on writing edit While he enjoyed teaching the sudden death of friend and fellow author Tom Reamy in late 1977 made Martin reevaluate his own life and he eventually decided to try to become a full time writer In 1979 he resigned from his job and moved from Dubuque to Santa Fe New Mexico at the end of the year 40 41 There he would live alone for almost three years a period he described as tremendously productive in regard of writing 42 Martin is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America SFWA he served as the organization s Southwest Regional Director from 1977 to 1979 and as its vice president from 1996 to 1998 43 In 1976 for Kansas City s MidAmeriCon the 34th World Science Fiction Convention Worldcon Martin and his friend and fellow writer editor Gardner Dozois conceived of and organized the first Hugo Losers Party for the benefit of all past and present Hugo losing writers on the evening following the convention s Hugo Awards ceremony Martin was nominated for two Hugos that year but lost both awards for the novelette and Seven Times Never Kill Man and the novella The Storms of Windhaven co written with Lisa Tuttle 44 Although Martin often writes fantasy or horror a number of his earlier works are science fiction tales occurring in a loosely defined future history known informally as The Thousand Worlds or The Manrealm In 2017 Martin recalled that he had started writing science fiction horror hybrids in the late 1970s to disprove a statement from a critic claiming that science fiction and horror were opposites and therefore incompatible Martin considered Sandkings 1979 the best known of these Another was the novella Nightflyers 1980 whose screen and television rights were purchased by Vista in 1984 which produced a 1987 film adaptation Nightflyers with a screenplay co written by Martin 45 Martin was unhappy about having to cut plot elements in order to accommodate the film s small budget 46 While not a hit at theatres Martin believes that the film saved his career and that everything he has written since exists in large part because of it 47 He has also written at least one piece of political military fiction Night of the Vampyres collected in Harry Turtledove s anthology The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century 2001 48 In 1982 Martin published a vampire novel titled Fevre Dream set in the 19th century on the Mississippi River Unlike traditional vampire novels in Fevre Dream vampires are not supernatural creatures but are rather a different species related to humans created by evolution with superhuman powers Critic Don D Amassa has praised Fevre Dream for its strong 19th century atmosphere and wrote This is without question one of the greatest vampire novels of all time 49 Martin followed up Fevre Dream with another horror novel The Armageddon Rag 1983 The unexpected commercial failure of The Armageddon Rag essentially destroyed my career as a novelist at the time he recalled and made him consider going into real estate instead 50 In 1984 the new editor of Baen Books Betsy Mitchell called Martin to ask him if he had considered doing a collection of Haviland Tuf adventures Martin who had several favorite series characters like Solomon Kane Elric Nicholas van Rijn and Magnus Ridolph had made an attempt to create such a character on his own in the 1970s with his Tuf stories He was interested but was too occupied with the writing of his next book the never completed novel Black and White and Red All Over which occupied most of his writing time the same year But after the failure of The Armageddon Rag all editors rejected his upcoming novel and desperate for money he accepted Mitchell s offer and wrote some more Tuf stories which were collected in Tuf Voyaging which sold well enough for Mitchell to suggest a sequel Martin was willing and agreed to do it but before he got started he got an offer from Hollywood where producer Philip DeGuere Jr wanted to adapt The Armageddon Rag into a film The film adaptation did not happen but they stayed in touch and when DeGuere became the producer for the revival of The Twilight Zone Martin was offered a job as a writer Working for television paid a lot better than writing literature so he decided to move to Hollywood to seek a new career 23 51 52 At first he worked as staff writer for the show and then as an executive story consultant After the CBS series was cancelled Martin migrated over to the already underway satirical science fiction series Max Headroom He worked on scripts and created the show s Ped Xing character However before his scripts could go into production the ABC show was cancelled in the middle of its second season Martin was hired as a writer producer on the new dramatic fantasy series Beauty and the Beast in 1989 he became the show s co supervising producer and wrote 14 of its episodes In 1987 Martin published a collection of short horror stories in Portraits of His Children During this same period Martin continued working in print media as a book series editor this time overseeing the development of the multi author Wild Cards book series which takes place in a shared universe in which a small slice of post World War II humanity gains superpowers after the release of an alien engineered virus new titles are published in the ongoing series from Tor Books In Second Person Martin gives a personal account of the close knit role playing game RPG culture that gave rise to his Wild Cards shared world anthologies 53 An important element in the creation of the multiple author series was a campaign of Chaosium s role playing game Superworld 1983 that Martin ran in Albuquerque 54 Admitting he became completely obsessed with the game he stopped writing literature for most of 1983 which he refers to as his lost year but his shrinking bank accounts made him realize he had to come up with something and got the idea that perhaps the stories and characters created in Superworld could somehow become profitable 55 Martin s own contributions to Wild Cards have included Thomas Tudbury The Great and Powerful Turtle a powerful psychokinetic whose flying shell consisted of an armored VW Beetle As of June 2011 update 21 Wild Cards volumes had been published in the series earlier that same year Martin signed the contract for the 22nd volume Low Ball 2014 published by Tor Books In early 2012 Martin signed another Tor contract for the 23rd Wild Cards volume High Stakes which was released in August 2016 56 In August 2016 Martin announced that Universal Cable Productions had acquired the rights to adapt the Wild Cards novels into a television series 57 He noted that he himself would not write for the adaptation due to focusing on A Song of Ice and Fire 57 A Song of Ice and Fire edit Main article A Song of Ice and Fire nbsp Teaching at Clarion West 1998 In 1991 Martin briefly returned to writing novels He had grown frustrated that his TV pilots and screenplays were not getting made 58 and that TV related production limitations like budgets and episode lengths were forcing him to cut characters and trim battle scenes 59 This pushed Martin back towards writing books where he did not have to worry about compromising his imagination 58 Admiring the works of J R R Tolkien in his childhood he wanted to write an epic fantasy though he did not have any specific ideas 60 His epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire was inspired by the Wars of the Roses The Accursed Kings 61 and Ivanhoe Though Martin originally conceptualized it as being three volumes 62 it is currently slated to comprise seven The first A Game of Thrones was published in 1996 followed by A Clash of Kings in 1998 and A Storm of Swords in 2000 In November 2005 A Feast for Crows the fourth novel in this series became The New York Times No 1 Bestseller 63 The fifth book A Dance with Dragons was published July 12 2011 and became an international bestseller including achieving a No 1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List 64 and many others it remained on the New York Times list for 88 weeks In 2012 A Dance With Dragons made the final ballot for science fiction and fantasy s Hugo Award 65 World Fantasy Award 66 Locus Poll Award and the British Fantasy Award 67 the novel went on to win the Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel 68 Two more novels are planned in the series The Winds of Winter and the final volume A Dream of Spring On April 25 2018 Martin announced the release date of his new book Fire amp Blood dealing with the history of House Targaryen which was released on November 20 2018 69 Should Martin die before finishing the A Song of Ice and Fire series former collaborators have said that they will not conclude the series for him 70 HBO adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire edit Main article Game of Thrones HBO Productions purchased the television rights for the A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2007 Although busy completing A Dance With Dragons and other projects George R R Martin was heavily involved in the production of the television series adaptation of his books Martin s involvement included the selection of a production team and participation in scriptwriting the opening credits list him as a co executive producer of the series The original pilot was shot between October 24 and November 19 2009 on location in Northern Ireland Scotland and Morocco 71 It was received so poorly by HBO executives that they did not make a decision for four months after the pilot was delivered 72 In March 2010 HBO s decision to greenlight the series was announced 73 with the production of the series scheduled to start June 2010 74 HBO however demanded the first episode be reshot and wanted all the scenes from Morocco scrapped 75 The first episode Winter Is Coming premiered on HBO in the United States and Canada on April 17 2011 It was seen initially by 2 2 million viewers The first season was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards ultimately winning two one for its opening title credits and one for Peter Dinklage as Best Supporting Actor 76 HBO ordered a second season of Game of Thrones on April 19 2011 two days after the series premiere 77 The second season obtained a 15 increase in budget in order to be able to stage the war s most important battle 78 the Battle of the Blackwater in episode nine which was written by George R R Martin Filming took place during 106 shooting days During three quarters of those two crews Dragon and Wolf were working simultaneously in different locations 79 Alan Taylor was promoted to co executive producer and directed four episodes including the season premiere and finale David Petrarca and David Nutter each directed two episodes while series cinematographer Alik Sakharov and filmmaker Neil Marshall directed the remaining two The second season premiered in the United States on HBO on April 1 2012 and concluded on June 3 2012 U S viewership rose by approximately 8 over the course of the season from 3 9 million to 4 2 million by the season finale The second season won six of the twelve Emmy Awards for which it was nominated 76 Game of Thrones rapidly became a critical and commercial success after the second season HBO renewed the series for a third season on April 10 2012 nine days after the second season s premiere Production began in July 2012 80 and concluded with the wrap of the unit filming in Iceland on November 24 2012 The third season is based on the first half of the novel A Storm of Swords Benioff had previously said that A Storm of Swords would need to be adapted in two seasons on account of its length Benioff and Weiss also noted that they thought of Game of Thrones as an adaptation of the series as a whole rather than of individual novels which gave them the liberty to move scenes back and forth across novels according to the requirements of the screen adaptation 81 Season 3 saw the first significant use of the Valyrian languages spoken in doomed Valyria and its former colonies in Essos The constructed languages were developed by linguist David J Peterson based on the few words Martin invented for the novels Peterson had previously developed the Dothraki language used principally in season 1 82 The third season premiered on HBO on March 31 2013 and concluded on June 9 2013 The third season was seen by 14 2 million viewers 83 It won 2 of the 16 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated 76 Two days after third season premiere HBO ordered the fourth season on April 2 2013 which began filming in July 2013 84 The season is adapted primarily from the second half of A Storm of Swords along with elements of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons Showrunners David Benioff and D B Weiss co wrote seven out of ten episodes The remaining three episodes were written by Bryan Cogman two episodes and George R R Martin one episode For this season the filming lasted 136 days and was completed on November 21 2013 85 The fourth season premiered in the United States on HBO on April 6 2014 and concluded on June 15 2014 The season was met with largely positive reviews It won 4 of the 19 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated 76 With its fourth season Game of Thrones has become the most watched HBO series in history surpassing the fourth season of The Sopranos which had a gross audience of 18 2 million viewers averaging 18 4 million viewers across multiple platforms including live viewing encores DVR views HBO GO and On Demand views 86 Up until the fourth season Martin wrote one episode for each season In 2022 Martin said that he had been estranged from the show during the production process of the last 4 seasons starting with season 5 87 In the early seasons Martin wrote and read scripts consulted on casting decisions and visited sets Over time however he stepped back to focus on his long delayed next Thrones novel The Winds of Winter 87 Following the gargantuan success of the fourth season HBO ordered the fifth season on April 8 2014 together with the sixth season which began filming in July 2014 The season primarily adapts the storylines from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons also with original content not found in Martin s novels This season set a Guinness World Record for winning the highest number of Emmy Awards for a series in a single season and year winning 12 out of 24 nominations including Outstanding Drama Series 88 With a budget over 100 million for the whole season filming for the sixth season began in July 2015 and ended on December The season filmed in five different countries Northern Ireland Spain Croatia Iceland and Canada This season saw the overall plot of the show diverging from the source material Some of the season s storyline is derived from content not yet published in Martin s A Song of Ice and Fire series although a significant amount of material from A Feast for Crows A Dance with Dragons and the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter which Martin previously outlined to showrunners David Benioff and D B Weiss was used 89 The season was largely met with positive reviews 90 The Battle of the Bastards episode received immense critical acclaim with many calling it one of the best television episodes of all time 91 U S viewership rose compared to the previous season and by approximately 13 percent over its course from 7 9 million to 8 9 million by the finale The season won 12 of the 23 Emmy Awards for which it was nominated 76 Three days before the premiere of the episode The Red Woman HBO ordered the seventh season Due to necessary weather conditions required for filming the production of the penultimate season of the show was delayed that year 92 Filming began only on August 31 2016 at Titanic Studios in Belfast 93 and ended in February 2017 94 Unlike previous seasons the seventh and eighth seasons largely consisted of original content not found in the source material This season comprised only seven episodes The showrunners stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show s usual 12 to 14 month time frame as Weiss said It s crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid range movie schedule 95 The average runtime of an episode in this season was approximately 63 minutes The series received 22 nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards and won 9 of them including Outstanding Drama Series 96 Unlike its prior seasons the final one took a year gap for its production and filming The eighth season consisted of only six episodes though the average runtime of an episode was 68 minutes the longest of all seasons with The Long Night consisting of 81 minutes The season was met with mixed reviews from critics While the performances production values and music score were praised criticism was mainly directed at the shorter runtime of the season as well as numerous creative decisions made by the showrunners Many commentators deemed it to be a disappointing conclusion to the series The season received 32 nominations at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards the most for a single season of television in history It won twelve including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage 97 Three years after the show ended a prequel series House of the Dragon premiered on HBO in August 21 2022 Based on parts of the novel Fire amp Blood the series is set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik served as the showrunners for the first season Five days after its premiere the series was renewed for a second season by HBO On September 1 Sapochnik departed as showrunner 98 with another veteran Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor replacing him as the co showrunner for the upcoming second season 99 In June 2022 it was reported that a Jon Snow sequel series with Kit Harington to reprise his role was in early development at HBO 100 The working title is Snow and Martin confirmed his involvement with the project and that Harington initiated the idea 101 Also in June Martin said there were still three other live action series in development 10 000 Ships written by Amanda Segal 9 Voyages aka Sea Snake written by Bruno Heller and the Dunk amp Egg prequel series written by Steven Conrad tentatively titled either The Hedge Knight or Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 101 In January 2021 an animated drama series was announced as in development at HBO Max 102 In July 2021 two more animated series were in development at HBO Max with one being set in Yi Ti a nation in Essos loosely based on Imperial China 103 Themes edit See also Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire Martin s work has been described as having complex story lines fascinating characters great dialogue perfect pacing by literary critic Jeff VanderMeer 104 Dana Jennings of the New York Times described Martin s work as fantasy for grown ups 105 and Lev Grossman wrote that it was dark and cynical 106 Martin s first novel Dying of the Light set the tone for some of his future work it unfolds on a mostly abandoned planet that is slowly becoming uninhabitable as it moves away from its sun This story has a strong sense of melancholy His characters are often unhappy or at least unsatisfied in many cases holding on to idealisms in spite of an otherwise chaotic and ruthless world and often troubled by their own self seeking or violent actions even as they undertake them Many have elements of tragic heroes or antiheroes in them reviewer T M Wagner writes Let it never be said Martin doesn t share Shakespeare s fondness for the senselessly tragic 107 nbsp Martin in November 2016The overall gloominess of A Song of Ice and Fire can be an obstacle for some readers the Inchoatus Group writes that If this absence of joy is going to trouble you or you re looking for something more affirming then you should probably seek elsewhere 108 However for many fans it is precisely this level of realness and completeness including many characters imperfections moral and ethical ambiguity and often sudden consequential plot twists that is endearing about Martin s work Many find that this is what makes the series story arcs compelling enough to keep following despite its sheer brutality and intricately messy and interwoven plotlines as TM Wagner points out There s great tragedy here but there s also excitement humor heroism even in weaklings nobility even in villains and now and then a taste of justice after all It s a rare gift when a writer can invest his story with that much humanity 107 Martin s characters are multifaceted each with intricate pasts aspirations and ambitions Publishers Weekly writes of his ongoing epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire The complexity of characters such as Daenerys Arya and the Kingslayer will keep readers turning even the vast number of pages contained in this volume for the author like Tolkien or Jordan makes us care about their fates 109 Misfortune injury and death including false death and reanimation often befall major or minor characters no matter how attached the reader has become Martin has described his penchant for killing off important characters as being necessary for the story s depth when my characters are in danger I want you to be afraid to turn the page so you need to show right from the beginning that you re playing for keeps 110 In distinguishing his work from others Martin makes a point of emphasizing realism and plausible social dynamics above an over reliance on magic and a simplistic good versus evil dichotomy for which contemporary fantasy writing is often criticized Notably Martin s work makes a sharp departure from the prevalent heroic knights and chivalry schema that has become a mainstay in fantasy as derived from J R R Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings He specifically critiques the oversimplification of Tolkien s themes and devices by imitators in ways that he has humorously described as Disneyland Middle Ages 111 which gloss over or ignore major differences between medieval and modern societies particularly social structures ways of living and political arrangements Martin has been described as the American Tolkien by literary critics 112 While Martin finds inspiration in Tolkien s legacy 113 he aims to go beyond what he sees as Tolkien s medieval philosophy of if the king was a good man the land would prosper to delve into the complexities ambiguities and vagaries of real life power We look at real history and it s not that simple Just having good intentions doesn t make you a wise king 114 Per this fact Martin has been credited with the rise of grimdark fantasy a modern form of an anti Tolkien approach to fantasy writing which 115 according to British science fiction and fantasy novelist Adam Roberts is characterized by its reaction to Tolkien s idealism even though it owes a lot to Tolkien s work 116 117 The Canadian fantasy writer R Scott Bakker says he wouldn t have been able to publish his fantasy novels without the success George R R Martin achieved first 118 Similarly Mark Lawrence author of Prince of Thorns was inspired by Martin and impressed by his Red Wedding scene 119 The author makes a point of grounding his work on a foundation of historical fiction which he channels to evoke important social and political elements of primarily the European medieval era that differ markedly from elements of modern times including the multigenerational rigid and often brutally consequential nature of the hierarchical class system of feudal societies 120 that is in many cases overlooked in fantasy writing Even as A Song of Ice and Fire is a fantasy series that employs magic and the surreal as central to the genre Martin is keen to ensure that magic is merely one element of many that moves his work forward 121 not a generic deus ex machina that is itself the focus of his stories which is something he has been very conscious about since reading Tolkien If you look at The Lord of the Rings what strikes you it certainly struck me is that although the world is infused with this great sense of magic there is very little onstage magic So you have a sense of magic but it s kept under very tight control and I really took that to heart when I was starting my own series 122 Martin s ultimate aim is an exploration of the internal conflicts that define the human condition which in deriving inspiration from William Faulkner 123 he ultimately describes as the only reason to read any literature regardless of genre 124 In 2018 Martin called The Lord of the Rings The Great Gatsby Gone with the Wind Great Expectations Lonesome Dove Catch 22 and Charlotte s Web favorites all towering masterpieces books that changed my life 125 Producing editIn 2017 Martin confirmed he would serve as an executive producer of the HBO television series adaptation of the 2010 science fantasy novel Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor 126 Martin also contributed to the 2022 video game titled Elden Ring writing the worldbuilding aspects for it 127 128 In February 2021 it was reported that Martin and Kalinda Vazquez were developing a TV adaptation of Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny which Martin pitched to HBO in 2020 Martin will be an executive producer Vazquez the showrunner writer and executive producer 129 In March 2021 he signed an overall deal with HBO 130 Martin will serve as an executive producer of the Peacock TV adaptation in development of his Wild Cards book series together with Melinda M Snodgrass and Vince Gerardis Martin s manager 131 He will serve as an executive producer of the 2022 AMC series Dark Winds based on Tony Hillerman s Leaphorn amp Chee books together with the creator Graham Roland the showrunner Vince Calandra the lead Zahn McClarnon Kiowa Gordon Chris Eyre Robert Redford Tina Elmo and Vince Gerardis 132 In 2021 Martin served as one of the producers of the short film Night of the Cooters based on the eponymous short story by Howard Waldrop 133 134 Relationship with fans edit nbsp Martin signing books in a bookstore in Ljubljana Slovenia June 2011 Martin actively contributes to his blog Not a Blog in April 2018 he moved his blog from Livejournal to his own website 135 Martin s official fan club is the Brotherhood Without Banners which has a regular posting board at the Forum of the website westeros org which is focused on his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series At the annual World Science Fiction Convention every year the Brotherhood Without Banners hosts a large on going hospitality suite that is open to all members of the Worldcon 136 Martin is opposed to fan fiction which he views as copyright infringement and a bad exercise for aspiring writers in terms of developing skills in worldbuilding and character development 137 138 Conventions edit Martin is known for his regular attendance at science fiction conventions and comics conventions and his accessibility to fans In the early 1980s critic and writer Thomas Disch identified Martin as a member of the Labor Day Group writers who regularly congregated at the annual Worldcon usually held on or around the Labor Day weekend Since the early 1970s he has also attended regional science fiction conventions further since 1986 Martin has participated annually in Albuquerque s smaller regional convention Bubonicon near his New Mexico home 139 140 He was the Guest of Honor at the 61st World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto held in 2003 141 142 In December 2016 Martin was a key speaker at the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2016 in Mexico where the author provided hints about the next two books in the series A Song of Ice and Fire 143 In 2020 Martin fulfilled his duties as toastmaster of the Hugo Awards During the event he mispronounced several names including that of R F Kuang which she considered a microaggression Martin later apologized for mispronouncing the names 144 145 Criticism edit Martin has been criticized by some of his readers for the long periods between books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series notably the six year gap between the fourth volume A Feast for Crows 2005 and the fifth volume A Dance with Dragons 2011 146 147 In 2010 Martin had responded to fan criticisms by saying he was unwilling to write only his A Song of Ice and Fire series noting that working on other prose and compiling and editing different book projects have always been part of his working process 148 Personal life edit nbsp Martin at LoneStarCon 3 the 71st World Science Fiction Convention 2013 In the early 1970s Martin was in a relationship with fellow science fiction fantasy author Lisa Tuttle with whom he co wrote Windhaven 149 While attending an East Coast science fiction convention he met his first wife Gale Burnick they were married in 1975 and moved from their Chicago apartment and into a house in Dubuque in 1976 Both of them grew tired of the hard winters there and when she graduated from Clarke in June 1979 he resigned from his job and they decided to move to New Mexico The year before they had fallen in love with Santa Fe on their way to the worldcon in Phoenix His wife went down and bought a house while Martin stayed behind to sell their home and finish the semester The marriage ended in divorce in 1979 150 before they could be reunited in Santa Fe Instead he settled there alone from December that same year until September 1981 when what would be his longtime partner Parris McBride moved in with him 151 152 42 On February 15 2011 Martin married McBride during a small ceremony at their Santa Fe home On August 19 2011 they held a larger wedding ceremony and reception at Renovation the 69th World Science Fiction Convention 153 He and McBride are supporters of the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico 154 In early 2013 he purchased Santa Fe s Jean Cocteau Cinema and Coffee House which had been closed since 2006 He had the property completely restored including both its original 35mm capability to which was added digital projection and sound the Cocteau officially reopened for business on August 9 2013 155 In 2019 he opened a bookstore named Beastly Books after Beauty and the Beast next to Jean Cocteau 156 Martin has also supported Meow Wolf an arts collective in Santa Fe having pledged 2 7 million toward a new art space in January 2015 157 158 In response to a question on his religious views Martin replied I suppose I m a lapsed Catholic You would consider me an atheist or agnostic I find religion and spirituality fascinating I would like to believe this isn t the end and there s something more but I can t convince the rational part of me that makes any sense whatsoever 159 Martin is a fan of the New York Jets the New York Giants and the New York Mets 160 161 162 He is also a fan of the Grateful Dead and says that the band s music may have influenced his work 163 Martin made a guest appearance as himself in an episode El Skeletorito of the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken 164 He also appeared in SyFy s Z Nation as a zombie version of himself in season two s The Collector where he is still signing copies of his new novel 165 166 In Sharknado 3 Oh Hell No he is killed when watching a movie at the theatre 167 Philanthropy editIn 2014 Martin launched a campaign on Prizeo to raise funds for Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and the Food Depot of Santa Fe As part of the campaign Martin offered one donor the chance to accompany him on a trip to the wolf sanctuary including a helicopter ride and dinner Martin also offered those donating 20 000 or more the opportunity to have a character named after them and killed off in an upcoming A Song of Ice and Fire novel The campaign garnered media attention and raised a total of 502 549 168 169 In 2017 Martin announced that he was funding The Miskatonic Scholarship The Miskatonic Scholarship allows a writer of Lovecraftian cosmic horror to attend the Odyssey Writing Workshop a six week writing workshop held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester New Hampshire 170 171 Politics editGrowing up Martin avoided the draft to the Vietnam War by being a conscientious objector and did two years of alternative service He generally opposes war and thought the Vietnam War was a terrible mistake for America 172 While he did not endorse Barack Obama in 2008 Martin endorsed him for re election in 2012 calling Obama the most intelligent president since Jimmy Carter 173 In 2014 Martin endorsed Democratic Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico 174 In the midst of pressure to pull the 2014 feature film The Interview from theaters the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe New Mexico which has been owned by Martin since 2013 decided to show the film Theater manager Jon Bowman told the Santa Fe New Mexican Martin feels strongly about the First Amendment and the idea of artists having the ability to speak their minds and not having to worry about being targets 175 Immediately following Bernie Sanders defeat in the U S Democratic primary elections he supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general 2016 United States presidential election and criticized Donald Trump during the election and following her defeat commenting that Trump would become the worst president in American history 176 177 178 In response to fans of Martin who compared Trump favorably to characters from A Song of Ice and Fire Martin doubled down on his criticism of Trump by making the case to his fans that Trump shares many personality traits in common with King Joffrey a near universally hated character from the series concluding that Trump is a Grown Up Joffrey 179 180 In May 2019 Martin endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 181 Awards and honors editThis section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources George R R Martin news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Awards and nominations edit Award Year Category Recipient s Result Notes Ref Bram Stoker Award 1988 Best Long Fiction The Pear Shaped Man Won 182 British Fantasy Award 2006 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel A Feast for Crows Nominated Goodreads Choice Awards 2011 Best Fantasy A Dance with Dragons Won 183 Hugo Award 1975 Best Novella A Song for Lya Won 184 1980 Best Novelette Sandkings Won 185 Best Short Story The Way of Cross and Dragon Won 1997 Best Novella Blood of the Dragon Won 186 2001 Best Novel A Storm of Swords Nominated 187 2006 A Feast for Crows Nominated 188 2012 A Dance with Dragons Nominated 189 Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form Game of Thrones Season 1 Won writer 190 2013 Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form Game of Thrones Episode Blackwater Won screenwriter 191 Locus Award 1976 Best Novella The Storms of Windhaven Won co authored with Lisa Tuttle 192 1977 Best Author Collection A Song for Lya and Other Stories Won 193 1980 Best Novelette Sandkings Won 194 Best Short Story The Way of Cross and Dragon Won 195 1981 Best Novella Nightflyers Won 192 1982 Best Novelette Guardians Won 196 Best Single Author Collection Sandkings Won 193 1984 Best Novelette The Monkey Treatment Won 196 1997 Best Fantasy Novel A Game of Thrones Won 1999 A Clash of Kings Won 2001 A Storm of Swords Won 2011 Best Original Anthology Warriors Won co edited with Gardner Dozois 2012 Best Fantasy Novel A Dance with Dragons Won 2014 Best Original Anthology Old Mars Won co edited with Gardner Dozois 197 2015 Rogues Won co edited with Gardner Dozois 2016 Old Venus Won co edited with Gardner Dozois Nebula Award 1979 Best Novelette Sandkings Won 196 1985 Portraits of His Children Won 196 1997 Best Novel A Game of Thrones Nominated 198 1999 A Clash of Kings Nominated 2001 A Storm of Swords Nominated 2023 Best Game Writing Elden Ring Won co writing with Hidetaka Miyazaki An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 International Recognition Award Himself Won Honorary award 199 Premio Ignotus 2003 Best Foreign Novel A Game of Thrones Won 2004 A Clash of Kings Won 2006 A Storm of Swords Won 2004 Foreign Short Story The Ice Dragon Won 2005 Path of the Dragon Won Primetime Emmy Awards 1988 Outstanding Drama Series Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Nominated producer 200 1989 Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Nominated producer 200 2011 Game of Thrones Season 1 Nominated co executive producer 200 2012 Game of Thrones Season 2 Nominated co executive producer 200 2013 Game of Thrones Season 3 Nominated co executive producer 200 2014 Game of Thrones Season 4 Nominated co executive producer 200 2015 Game of Thrones Season 5 Won co executive producer 200 2016 Game of Thrones Season 6 Won co executive producer 200 2018 Game of Thrones Season 7 Won co executive producer 200 2019 Game of Thrones Season 8 Won co executive producer 200 2024 House of the Dragon Season 1 Nominated co executive producer 200 Quill Award 2006 Best Novel Science Fiction amp Fantasy A Feast for Crows Nominated World Fantasy Award 1989 Best Novella The Skin Trade Won 2012 Life Achievement Himself Won Honorary award 2014 Best Original Anthology Dangerous Women Won co edited with Gardner Dozois Geffen Award 2002 Best Fantasy Book A Storm of Swords Won 2013 A Dance with Dragons Won Seiun Award 1983 Foreign Short Fiction Nightflyers Won State and academic honors edit State and academic honors for Martin Country or organization Year Award Ref s New Jersey Hall of Fame 2019 Arts amp Entertainment Northwestern University 2015 Medill Hall of Achievement Award 201 2021 Doctor of Humane Letters 202 Bibliography editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2022 Works edit Title Year Type Note The Hero 1971 Short story Galaxy Magazine The Second Kind of Loneliness 1972 Analog Science Fiction and Fact Override 1973 With Morning Comes Mistfall A Song for Lya 1974 Novella Hugo Award for Best Novella 1975 And Seven Times Never Kill Man 1975 Short story Analog Science Fiction and Fact The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr 203 1976 Short story Fantastic Stories A Song for Lya Short story collection Nobody Leaves New Pittsburg Short story Amazing Science Fiction Stories This Tower of Ashes Analog Annual Dying of the Light 1977 Novel Songs of Stars and Shadows Short story collection Sandkings 1979 Novelette Hugo Award amp Nebula Award for Best Novelette 1980 The Way of Cross and Dragon Short story Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1980 The Ice Dragon 1980 Young adult fiction Illustrated by Alicia Austin as part of Dragons of Light and Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 2006 Nightflyers Novella Windhaven 1981 Fix up novel with Lisa Tuttle Sandkings Short story collection Fevre Dream 1982 Novel In the Lost Lands Short story Amazons II anthologyTo be adapted into a film 204 Songs the Dead Men Sing 1983 Short story collection The Armageddon Rag Novel Nightflyers and Other Stories 1985 Short story collection Heroes for Hope Comic book script X Men comic fundraiser Tuf Voyaging 1986 Fix up novel The Glass Flower Short story Portraits of His Children 1987 Short story collection The Skin Trade 1989 Novella Dark Visions compilation Blood of the Dragon 1996 Novella Chapter set book of A Song of Ice and Fire A Game of Thrones 1996 Novel A Song of Ice and Fire The Hedge Knight 1998 Novella Tales of Dunk and Egg A Song of Ice and Fire prequel A Clash of Kings Novel A Song of Ice and Fire A Storm of Swords 2000 Path of the Dragon 2000 Novella Chapter set book of A Song of Ice and Fire Quartet 2001 Short story collection Arms of the Kraken 2002 Novella Chapter set book of A Song of Ice and Fire GRRM A RRetrospective 2003 Short story amp essay collection The Sworn Sword Novella Tales of Dunk and Egg A Song of Ice and Fire prequel A Feast for Crows 2005 Novel A Song of Ice and Fire Hunter s Run 2007 with Gardner Dozois amp Daniel Abraham The Mystery Knight 2010 Novella Tales of Dunk and Egg A Song of Ice and Fire prequel A Dance with Dragons 2011 Novel A Song of Ice and Fire The Lands of Ice and Fire 2012 Map collection from the A Song of Ice and Fire world The Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister 2013 Quote collection from A Song of Ice and Fire The Princess and the Queen Novella A Song of Ice and Fire prequels 205 206 The Rogue Prince 2014 Novelette The World of Ice amp Fire Reference book The history of Westeros with Elio M Garcia Jr and Linda Antonsson The Ice Dragon Young adult illustrated novella Reworked version of the original novella published in 1980 illustrated by Luis Royo 207 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 2015 Collection compilation of the first three Tales of Dunk and Egg 208 The Sons of the Dragon 2017 Novella A Song of Ice and Fire prequel 209 210 Fire amp Blood 2018 novella collection Fix up novel The history of House Targaryen The Rise of the Dragon 2022 Reference book The history of House Targaryen with Elio M Garcia Jr and Linda Antonsson The Winds of Winter TBD Novel A Song of Ice and Fire A Dream of Spring Blood amp Fire novella collection Fix up novel Second volume of Fire amp Blood The She Wolves of Winterfell Novella Conceived as future installments of Tales of Dunk and Egg The Village Hero The Sellsword The Champion The Kingsguard The Lord Commander Novels edit A Song of Ice and Fire universe A Song of Ice and Fire series A Game of Thrones 1996 A Clash of Kings 1998 A Storm of Swords 2000 A Feast for Crows 2005 A Dance with Dragons 2011 The Winds of Winter forthcoming A Dream of Spring planned Prequels Tales of Dunk and Egg series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 2015 collection of 3 novellas The Hedge Knight 1998 The Sworn Sword 2003 The Mystery Knight 2010 The Rogue Prince amp The Princess series The Princess and the Queen or the Blacks and the Greens 2013 novella The Rogue Prince or a King s Brother 2014 prequel novelette The Sons of the Dragon 2017 novella Fire amp Blood 2018 Blood amp Fire forthcoming Companion Books The Lands of Ice and Fire 2012 The Wit amp Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister 2013 The World of Ice amp Fire 2014 with Elio M Garcia Jr and Linda Antonsson The Rise of the Dragon 2022 with Elio M Garcia Jr and Linda Antonsson Chapter Sets Blood of the Dragon 1996 Path of the Dragon 2000 Arms of the Kraken 2002 Stand alones Dying of the Light 1977 Windhaven 1981 with Lisa Tuttle fix up novel of 3 novellas Storms One Wing The Fall Fevre Dream 1982 The Armageddon Rag 1983 Tuf Voyaging 1986 fix up novel of 7 novellas novelettes The Plague Star novella Loaves and Fishes novella Guardians novelette Second Helpings novelette A Beast for Norn novelette Call Him Moses novelette Manna from Heaven novella Hunter s Run 2007 with Daniel Abraham and Gardner Dozois a heavily rewritten and expanded version of an earlier novella called Shadow Twin Children s novels edit The Ice Dragon novelette Short stories edit Collections A Song for Lya or A Song for Lya and Other Stories 1976 collection of 8 short stories and 2 novellas novelettes With Morning Comes Mistfall The Second Kind of Loneliness Override novelette Dark Dark Were the Tunnels The Hero FTA Run to Starlight The Exit to San Breta Slide Show A Song for Lya novella Songs of Stars and Shadows 1977 collection of 8 short stories and 1 novelette This Tower of Ashes Patrick Henry Jupiter and the Little Red Brick Spaceship Men of Greywater Station The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr Night of the Vampyres The Runners Night Shift For a Single Yesterday And Seven Times Never Kill Man novelette Sandkings 1981 collection of 3 short stories and 4 novelettes The Way of Cross and Dragon novelette Bitterblooms novelette In the House of the Worm Fast Friend The Stone City novelette Starlady Sandkings novelette Songs the Dead Men Sing 1983 collection of 5 short stories and 4 novelettes novellas The Monkey Treatment novelette For a Single Yesterday In the House of the Worm The Needle Men Meathouse Man novelette Sandkings novelette This Tower of Ashes Nightflyers novella Remembering Melody Nightflyers or Nightflyers and Other Stories 1985 collection of 6 novelettes novellas Nightflyers novella Override novelette Weekend in a War Zone novelette And Seven Times Never Kill Man novelette Nor the Many Colored Fires of a Star Ring novelette A Song for Lya novella Portraits of His Children 1987 collection of 5 short stories and 6 novelettes novellas With Morning Comes Mistfall The Second Kind of Loneliness The Last Super Bowl novelette The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr The Ice Dragon novelette In the Lost Lands Unsound Variations novella Closing Time Under Siege novelette The Glass Flower novelette Portraits of His Children novelette Quartet 2001 collection of 1 short story and 3 novellas Blood of the Dragon novella part of A Game of Thrones Black and White and Red All Over Starport novella Skin Trade novella Dreamsongs A RRetrospective or GRRM A RRetrospective 2003 collection of 11 short stories 21 novelettes novellas and 2 screenplays A Four Color Fanboy Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark The Fortress And Death His Legacy The Filthy Pro The Hero The Exit to San Breta The Second Kind of Loneliness With Morning Comes Mistfall The Light of Distant Stars A Song for Lya novella This Tower of Ashes And Seven Times Never Kill Man novelette The Stone City novelette Bitterblooms novelette The Way of Cross and Dragon novelette The Heirs of Turtle Castle The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr The Ice Dragon novelette In the Lost Lands Hybrids and Horrors Meathouse Man novelette Remembering Melody Sandkings novelette Nightflyers novella The Monkey Treatment novelette The Pear Shaped Man novelette A Taste of Tuf A Beast for Norn novelette part of Tuf Voyaging Guardians novelette part of Tuf Voyaging The Siren Song of Hollywood The Road Less Traveled screenplay Doorways screenplay Doing the Wild Card Shuffle Shell Games novelette From the Journal of Xavier Desmond novella The Heart in Conflict Under Siege novelette The Skin Trade novella Unsound Variations novella The Glass Flower novelette The Hedge Knight novella series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1 Portraits of His Children novelette Uncollected short stories Nobody Leaves New Pittsburg 1976 Editor edit New Voices in Science Fiction 1977 new stories by the John W Campbell Award winners New Voices in Science Fiction 2 1979 more new stories by the John W Campbell Award winners New Voices in Science Fiction 3 1980 more new stories by the John W Campbell Award winners New Voices in Science Fiction 4 1981 more new stories by the John W Campbell Award winners The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book 1983 edited with Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenberg Stories by the Great Science Fiction Writers on Fat Thin and Everything in Between The John W Campbell Awards Volume 5 1984 continuation of the New Voices in Science Fiction series Night Visions 3 1986 Wild Cards series editor also contributor to many volumes edit Wild Cards 1987 contents expanded in 2010 edition with three new stories authors Wild Cards II Aces High 1987 Wild Cards III Jokers Wild 1987 Wild Cards IV Aces Abroad 1988 Book I of the Puppetman Quartet contents expanded in 2015 edition with two new stories authors Wild Cards V Down amp Dirty 1988 Book II of the Puppetman Quartet Wild Cards VI Ace in the Hole 1990 Book III of the Puppetman Quartet Wild Cards VII Dead Man s Hand 1990 Book IV of the Puppetman Quartet Wild Cards VIII One Eyed Jacks 1991 Book I of the Rox Triad Wild Cards IX Jokertown Shuffle 1991 Book II of the Rox Triad Wild Cards X Double Solitaire 1992 Wild Cards XI Dealer s Choice 1992 Book III of the Rox Triad Wild Cards XII Turn of the Cards 1993 Wild Cards XIII Card Sharks 1993 Book I of the Card Shark Triad Wild Cards XIV Marked Cards 1994 Book II of the Card Shark Triad Wild Cards XV Black Trump 1995 Book III of the Card Shark Triad Wild Cards XVI Deuces Down 2002 Wild Cards XVII Death Draws Five 2006 solo novel by John J Miller Wild Cards XVIII Inside Straight 2008 Book I of The Committee triad Wild Cards XIX Busted Flush 2008 Book II of The Committee triad Wild Cards XX Suicide Kings 2009 Book III of The Committee triad Wild Cards XXI Fort Freak 2011 Book I of the Mean Streets Triad Wild Cards XXII Lowball 2014 Book II of the Mean Streets Triad Wild Cards XXIII High Stakes 2016 Book III of the Mean Streets Triad 56 Wild Cards XXIV Mississippi Roll 2017 Book I of the American Triad Wild Cards XXV Low Chicago 2018 Book II of the American Triad Wild Cards XXVI Texas Hold Em 2018 Book III of the American Triad Wild Cards XXVII Knaves Over Queens 2019 Book I of the British Arc Wild Cards XXVIII Three Kings 2020 Book II of the British Arc Wild Cards XXIX Joker Moon 2021 Wild Cards XXX Full House 2022 Wild Cards XXXI Pairing Up TBA 211 Cross genre anthologies edited with Gardner Dozois edit Songs of the Dying Earth 2009 a tribute anthology to Jack Vance s Dying Earth series first published by Subterranean Press Warriors 2010 a cross genre anthology featuring stories about war and warriors winner of the 2011 Locus Poll Award for Best Original Anthology Songs of Love and Death 2010 a cross genre anthology featuring stories of romance in fantasy and science fiction settings originally entitled Star Crossed Lovers Down These Strange Streets 2011 a cross genre anthology that blends classic detective stories with fantasy and science fiction Old Mars 2013 a science fiction anthology featuring all new retro themed stories about the Red Planet 212 Dangerous Women 2013 213 a cross genre anthology focusing on women warriors and strong female characters originally titled Femmes Fatale 214 Rogues 2014 a cross genre anthology featuring new stories about assorted rogues 212 Old Venus 2015 publication an anthology of all new retro themed Venus science fiction stories 212 215 Filmography editFilm edit Year Title Actor Writer Producer Notes 1987 Nightflyers No Yes No 2015 Sharknado 3 Oh Hell No Yes No No Himself 2018 Meow Wolf Origin Story No No Yes Documentary Himself and executive producer Television edit Year Title Actor Writer Producer Notes 1984 The Hitchhiker No Yes No based on Short Story Remembering Melody 1986 The Twilight Zone No Yes No five episodes 1987 1990 Beauty and the Beast Yes Yes Yes wrote 13 episodes producer and co supervising producer role Restaurant Patron 1992 Doorways No Yes Yes unaired pilot executive producer 1995 2002 The Outer Limits No Yes No episodes The Sandkings and Final Appeal based on Sandkings 2011 2019 Game of Thrones Yes Yes Yes wrote The Pointy End Blackwater The Bear and the Maiden Fair The Lion and the Rose co executive producer cameo in original unaired pilot 2014 Robot Chicken Yes No No roles George R R Martin Father voices 2015 Z Nation Yes No No Himself 2018 Nightflyers No Yes Yes based on the novella and series of short stories of the same name executive producer 2022 present House of the Dragon No No Yes creator and executive producer 2022 present Dark Winds No No Yes Executive producer Video games edit Year Title Actor Writer Producer Notes 2012 Game of Thrones No No Yes Executive producer 2022 Elden Ring No Yes No WorldbuildingReferences edit Richards Linda January 2001 January interview George R R Martin januarymagazine com Archived from the original on March 20 2012 Retrieved January 21 2012 a b Author George R R Martin Is Visiting Texas A amp M Talks Game of Thrones and Texas A 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Martin George R R September 10 2016 A Salute to Immigrants Not A Blog Archived from the original on September 11 2016 Retrieved September 11 2016 George R R Martin Italian Roots PBS Finding Your Roots Retrieved October 26 2022 Schleier Curt Game of Thrones creator George R R Martin discovers he s a quarter Jewish www timesofisrael com Retrieved January 7 2019 Martin George R R October 2004 The Heart of a Small Boy Asimov s Science Fiction Archived from the original on October 19 2004 Retrieved March 28 2014 NJM Q amp A George R R Martin New Jersey Monthly March 15 2013 Retrieved February 18 2017 George R R Martin The World of Ice and Fire Game of Thrones retrieved December 19 2022 a b Berwick Isabel June 1 2012 Lunch with the FT George RR Martin Financial Times Archived from the original on December 10 2022 Retrieved June 1 2012 George RR Martin Game of Thrones finishing is freeing I m at my own pace the Guardian August 18 2019 Retrieved February 17 2021 Rutkoff Aaron July 8 2011 Garden State Tolkien Q amp A With George R R Martin The Wall Street Journal Mr Martin 62 years old says that he grew up in a federal housing project in Bayonne which is situated on a peninsula My four years at Marist High School were not the happiest of my life the author admits although his growing enthusiasm for writing comics and superhero stories first emerged during this period Macdonald Fiona Who inspired the Game of Thrones creator www bbc com Dent Grace interviewer Martin George R R June 12 2012 Game Of Thrones Interview with George R R Martin YouTube Archived from the original on December 11 2021 Gustines George Gene October 3 2014 In the Beginning It Was All About Comics The New York Times pp C28 Archived from the original on January 2 2022 Retrieved July 29 2015 Jackson Matthew October 14 2013 Who bought the first ticket to the first comics con in 64 George R R Martin SYFY WIRE Archived from the original on November 24 2020 Retrieved February 17 2021 1965 Alley Awards www hahnlibrary net a b D Mmassa Don Martin George pages 388 390 from St James Guide to Horror Ghost and Gothic Writers edited by David Pringle Detroit St James Press 19978 page 388 George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight interview with Martin George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight CBC ca March 14 2012 Retrieved March 15 2012 With Morning Comes Mistfall Hugo Awards Archived from the original on March 3 2012 Retrieved May 22 2012 Gilmore Mikal June 13 2014 George R R Martin The Complete Rolling Stone Interview rollingstone com Archived from the original on June 12 2018 Retrieved December 21 2017 George RR Martin on success chess and the wrath of superfans independent co uk Life amp Times of George R R Martin www georgerrmartin com 1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominees amp Winners presented in 1998 Horror Writers Association Retrieved July 22 2020 Munson Kyle May 23 2014 Before Westeros there was Iowa Iowa City Press Citizen George R R Martin Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Biography A amp E Television Networks Retrieved June 24 2017 George R R Martin Has a Detailed Plan For Keeping the Game of Thrones TV Show From Catching Up To Him Vanity Fair March 14 2014 Retrieved October 30 2014 Dubuque George R R Martin a b Back in Westeros Not a Blog Prior SFWA Board amp Officers SFWA Retrieved December 19 2022 Index to SF Awards The Locus Archived from the original on May 5 2009 Retrieved August 14 2012 grrm November 27 2017 The NIGHTFLYER Flies Again livejournal com Peter Sagal September 15 2012 Thrones Author George R R Martin Plays Not My Job NPR Retrieved September 16 2012 grrm October 23 2017 NIGHTFLYERS at the JCC livejournal com Martin George R R May 2001 Turtledove Harry Greenberg Martin H eds Night of the Vampyres The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century New York Ballantine pp 279 306 D Amassa Don Martin George pages 388 390 from St James Guide to Horror Ghost and Gothic Writers edited by David Pringle Detroit St James Press 1997 page 390 This failure nearly made Game of Thrones creator George R R Martin stop writing and go into real estate finance yahoo com April 14 2019 Martin George R R September 18 2008 Dreamsongs A RRetrospective Orion ISBN 978 0 575 08612 8 via Google Books Sharf Zack October 21 2014 George R R Martin Talks Comic Books Taxes and Hating Game Of Thrones Interviews indiewire com Kerr John Finlay 2009 Harrigan Pat Wardrip Fruin Noah eds Second person Role playing and story in games and playable media Transformative Works and Cultures 2 doi 10 3983 twc 2009 0095 Shannon Appelcline 2011 Designers amp Dragons Mongoose Publishing p 87 ISBN 978 1 907702 58 7 The First Wild Cards Day or the Game That Ate My Life June 6 2011 a b High Stakes Macmillan Publishers Retrieved July 11 2016 a b The Wild Cards Are Coming to Television Not A Blog George R R Martin Archived from the original on August 18 2016 Retrieved August 16 2016 a b Richards Linda January 2001 January interview George R R Martin januarymagazine com Archived from the 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