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Selections from Dreamsongs 3: Selections from Wild Cards and More Stories from Martin's Later Years: Unabridged Selections

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This is a selection of stories read by various authors, based off The Dreamsongs collection. George R. R. Martin provides three sections of commentary for each of the three sections. In fact the first section, which is teleplays in the paper collection, is just commentary by Martin for about 30 minutes. He also adds some commentary on the section Doing the Wild Card Shuffle and The Heart in Conflict. The last one isn't that exciting but the first commentary talks all about his Wild card anthologies that he edits and how it got started. All of the information in the commentaries was really invaluable information pertaining to Martin the writer.

The audio commentary was done pretty well. It is always a bonus when you get separate authors per story, as we get here. When the protagonist was an old man we got a voice that was old. When the protagonist was female we got a female voice. There was one story "The Skin Trade" that was told from two different perspectives, one male and one female. At first it was rough going to follow along, but as it got further into the story it got easier to understand. This was a hiccup in an otherwise pretty good job of voice acting for this collection.

The stories were mostly pretty good, but The Wild Card stories were average. I got a re-read in here with "The Hedge Knight" which is a very good novella. "The Skin Trade", which I haven't read before was an excellent horror/mystery story. While stories like "Under Siege" and "Portraits of His Children" were both solid stories. All-in-all this was above average work and fun to listen to.