George Raymond Richard Martin (Bayonne (New Jersey), September 20, 1948) is an American writer of high fantasy, science fiction and scenarios and also film producer. He has taught journalism and has been an organizer of chess tournaments. Martin wrote a lot of short stories in the 70s and won several awards, including the Hugo Award for the short story A Song for Lyra (1974), The Way of Cross and Dragon (1979) and Sand Kings (1979), which he also won the Nebula Award. In 1985 he received the novella Portraits of His Children a second Nebula. For The Skin Trade in 1988 he received the World Fantasy Award and in 1997 with his fourth Hugo Blood of the Dragon. Martin is also the winner of six Locus Awards, including for the first three novels A Song of Ice and Fire. Although much of his work belongs to the genre of horror fantasy, Martin also a writer of science fiction and screenplays. From 1986 Martin worked for television in the new series The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. He was also editor, responsible for, among other things, the Wild Cards cycle, which several writers, including Roger Zelazny, could take place in the same universe shared their books. Martins short story with the same name was filmed as Night Flyers in 1987. In 1996, Martin returned to writing. He began the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, the work that made him immensely popular with the public. His works are distinguished mainly by the textured realism. When Martin there are no totally bad opponents or purely good people, so many likable characters die, often cruelly, often by treachery. The suffering of ordinary people under the wars of kings without pity mapped. In 2007 the U.S. pay-TV channel HBO got the TV rights of the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire, after which followed a TV series called Game of Thrones, which premiered on April 17, 2011. George R. R. Martin is part of the team of producers of this series and writes every season a TV script. For this season 1 episode was 8 (The Pointy End) and season two was this episode 9 (Blackwater). Awards
A Song of Ice and Fire cycle
Remaining romans
Story bundles
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