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Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads
This trade paperback reprint of the Boskone 38 Book contains a sampling of Bokone 38 Guest of Honor, George R.R. Martin: three stories and one teleplay. Introduction by Melisssa Snodgrass. Dustjacket art by Charles Vess.
Contents:
The Skin Trade (1988)
Blood of the Dragon (1996)
Black and White and Red All Over (2001)
Starport (2001)
Contents:
The Skin Trade (1988)
Blood of the Dragon (1996)
Black and White and Red All Over (2001)
Starport (2001)
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
September 1st 2001
by NESFA
(first published February 2001)
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... there you have it, Quartet - Four Tales from the Crossroads, four stories in four genres, Martin's writing in a nutshell. Does that make this book worth reading? I'd say only for the real fan. An unfinished novel, a piece of another, a teleplay... they are all worth reading but their still only bits and pieces of Martin's career. Unfinished projects, unrealized ambition and a taste of a far larger project, none of that makes for very satisfying reading. It does give the reader a better under...more
While waiting for the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series to come out, I re read the series and I started reading other collections of Martin's stories.
The Skin Trade is worth 5 stars by itself, it's perhaps the only one of the four I read completely. The journalist story was unfinished, and not particularly compelling. I wasn't in the mood to read a script, and I've already read Song of the Dragon (It's good) in its original form in Song of Ice and Fire... Its too bad they are the bac...more
The Skin Trade is worth 5 stars by itself, it's perhaps the only one of the four I read completely. The journalist story was unfinished, and not particularly compelling. I wasn't in the mood to read a script, and I've already read Song of the Dragon (It's good) in its original form in Song of Ice and Fire... Its too bad they are the bac...more
This is an interesting collection of four long works by Martin; a screen play, a novella excerpted from his famous "Fire and Ice" series, an unfinished novel, and a stand-alone horror novella. The screen play, "Starport," is a very well-done piece, and I wish that it would have been produced. I could have done without the partial story; it's just frustrating not knowing where he was going with it. "Skin Trade" is an excellent, award-winning werewolf story, and "Blood of the Dragon," which also w...more
Shocked at the finish of Black and White and Red All Over, but loved what there was of it.
I really only read Skin Trade, because I don't like to read screenplays, I'd already the story from game of thrones, and I refuse to read something that the author admits was unfinished.
I like Skin Trade. It definitely held my interest.
I like Skin Trade. It definitely held my interest.
The novel fragment in this collection is so good that if GRRM decided to abandon his current series and resume writing it I would almost forgive him.
Worth getting just to read the teleplay of the pilot of a show that never was, called Starport. Highly, highly amusing.
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George R. R. Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.
Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies,...more
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Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies,...more
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