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Is this going to be an actual book or a graphic novel?

Bill Purkayastha It was originally a long short story - just short of a novella - in Martin's collection Sandkings. I don't recall offhand when it was written but my c…moreIt was originally a long short story - just short of a novella - in Martin's collection Sandkings. I don't recall offhand when it was written but my copy of Sandkings is over twenty years old and I bought the book in a second hand bookshop. The story is a good one, though there are much better stories in the same collection as well as rather worse. Recommended (both the story and the collection).

It has been adapted into a graphic novel which was published in 2014 in four parts and is available free online if you google. The graphic novel has a high standard of artwork as far as that goes (albeit all the characters are Caucasian and the settings aren't at all imaginative - very DC Comics style in fact; and there's a fair bit of nudity), and sticks mostly to the story, but leaves no room for imagination and destroys the sense of wonder and confusion in the main character's mind. Not recommended.(less)

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