Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective

First published as GRRM: A RRetrospective.

World Fantasy Award nominee 2004.

The book every George R. R. Martin fan has been waiting for: a magnificent collection of the best-selling author's most evocative short fiction

GRRM: A RRETROSPECTIVE is a massive collection of the best of George R.R. Martin's short fiction, containing 32 short stories and novellas, including the Hugo-winning 'A Song for Lya', the Bram Stoker-winning 'The Pear-Shaped Man' and 'The Skin Trade', which won the World Fantasy Award and is generally acclaimed as the finest werewolf story of our time.

As well as the stories themselves, which span Martin's multi-faceted career, there are two television scripts, voluminous author commentary, an introduction by award-winning editor and writer Gardner Dozois and a comprehensive bibliography.

This must-have volume by one of the brightest stars in the field of imaginative fiction.

Contents:

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
• This Tower of Ashes
• And Seven Times Never Kill Man
• The Stone City
• Bitterblooms
• The Way of Cross and Dragon

The Heirs of Turtle Castle

• The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr
• The Ice Dragon
• In the Lost Lands

Hybrids and Horrors

• Meathouse Man
• Remembering Melody
• Sandkings
• Nightflyers
• The Monkey Treatment
• The Pear-Shaped Man

A Taste of Tuf

• A Beast for Norn (original version)
• Guardians

The Siren Song of Hollywood

• The Road Less Travelled (Twilight Zone teleplay)
• Doorways pilot/first draft (unproduced teleplay)

Doing the Wild Card Shuffle

• Shell Games
• From the Journal of Xavier Desmond

The Heart in Conflict

• Under Siege
• The Skin Trade
• Unsound Variations
• The Glass Flower
• The Hedge Knight (A Song of Ice and Fire novella)
• Portraits of His Children