George R.R. Martin is the author of the acclaimed, internationally bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted into the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also the editor and contributor to the Wild Cards series, including the novels "Suicide Kings" and "Fort Freak," among other bestsellers. He has won multiple science fiction and fantasy awards, including four Hugos, two Nebulas, six Locus Awards, the Bram Stoker, the World Fantasy Award, the Daedelus, the Balrog, and the Daikon (the Japanese Hugo). Martin has been writing ever since he was a child, when he sold monster stories to neighborhood children for pennies, and then in high school he wrote fiction for comic fanzines. His first professional sale was to "Galaxy" magazine, when he was 21. He has been a full-time writer since 1979. Martin has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Gardner Dozois, one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" for 20 years. He is the editor of the "Year's Best Science Fiction" anthologies and co-editor of the "Warrior" anthologies and many others. As a writer, he twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Of the many novels written by SF Grandmaster Vance, his Dying
Earth series remains the most popular and most memorable of his
oeuvre. Now top SF and fantasy authors...have contributed stories
and reminiscences to this mammoth collection of tales set in that
unforgettable universe, one in which Earth's sun is a dying red
dwarf and in which irascible mages, clever scoundrels, and ordinary
folk wait around for their world's inevitable demise.... The
twenty-three stories not only capture the unique feel of Vance's
dying universe but stand individually as one of the strongest
gatherings of writers to pay homage to one of their own. This is
highly recommended."
--"Library Journal" (starred review)
"Of the many novels written by sf Grandmaster Vance, his 'Dying
Earth' series remains the most popular and most memorable of his
oeuvre. Now top sf and fantasy authors… have contributed stories
and reminiscences to this mammoth collection of tales set in that
unforgettable universe...the 23 stories not only capture the unique
feel of Vance's dying universe but stand individually as one of the
strongest gatherings of writers to pay homage to one of their own.
This is highly recommended."--"Library Journal" (starred review)
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