SONGS OF STARS AND SHADOWS [Paperback]

George R.R. Martin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket Books (1976)
• ASIN: B000GRAO6M
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

More About the Author

George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!!, November 11, 2002

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P. Robinson "Relic113" (Calgary) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of Stars and Shadows (Paperback)

"The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" was stirring and wonderful and is representative of this book as a whole. There are some real gems here if you can find this book. "Greywater Station" will please any science fiction story enthusiast. The Runners is a dark and disturbing story...I too am afraid of this Fat, Disgusting, Smiling and terrifying girl who haunts the man no matter where he runs....

Buy This Book if you can find it, Its expensive but worth every cent...

Thank You Mr. Martin

Relic113

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More of George's Xcellent early work, August 19, 2002

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Tracy Deaton (Port Orchard, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of Stars and Shadows (Paperback)

Another Xcellent collection of Martin's early short stories. "This Tower of Ashes" was George's choice 4 his best short story, 1nce upon a time; U may agree with him; it's very vivid & very moving. "The Lonely Songs of Laren Door" also has that wonderful, moody, romantic atmosphere of so much of George's early work. "Men of Graywater Station" (written with Howard Waldrop) is an above-average space thriller. "Night Shift" shows the flip-side of Martin's moody/romantic visions -- it's a very gritty, down-2-earth story about working on a future loading dock, comparing spaceships 2 long-distance trucking; definitely something different 4 George; U'll like it. "For a Single Yesterday" was also a personal favorite of George's, but 4 me it just misses; it Cms dry, nothing special. "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" is a routine space adventure. A couple others R merely average, nothing 2 get Xcited about. But the best stuff here is some of George's best work.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More of George's Xcellent early work, August 19, 2002

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Tracy Deaton (Port Orchard, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of Stars and Shadows (Paperback)

Another Xcellent collection of Martin's early short stories. "This Tower of Ashes" was George's choice 4 his best short story, 1nce upon a time; U may agree with him; it's very vivid & very moving. "The Lonely Songs of Laren Door" also has that wonderful, moody, romantic atmosphere of so much of George's early work. "Men of Graywater Station" (written with Howard Waldrop) is an above-average space thriller. "Night Shift" shows the flip-side of Martin's moody/romantic visions -- it's a very gritty, down-2-earth story about working on a future loading dock, comparing spaceships 2 long-distance trucking; definitely something different 4 George; U'll like it. "For a Single Yesterday" was also a personal favorite of George's, but 4 me it just misses; it Cms dry, nothing special. "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" is a routine space adventure. A couple others R merely average, nothing 2 get Xcited about. But the best stuff here is some of George's best work.