Latest on that GRRM retrospective.From the man himself...
From GRRM:
July 15, 2003
HALF A MILLION WORDS OF GRRM
These days, I am best known for the epic fantasy novels of A Song of Ice and Fire, but my longtime readers will know that wrote a lot of other things before that. Decades worth of other things. The novels Fevre Dream, Dying of the Light, and The Armageddon Rag, for three. Several feature screenplays, and a bushel of scripts for The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and other shows. My Haviland Tuf stories, and my work for Wild Cards. And lots and lots and lots of short stories, novelettes, and novellas.
While Bantam Books is bringing my old novels back into print one by one, most of my short fiction has been unavailable in recent years, except for those lucky enough to find one of my old collections on the dusty shelves of some used paperback exchange. That's all about to change, however.
Subterranean Press has just announced the forthcoming publication of GRRM: a RRetrospective, a mammoth new hardcover collection of more than thirty years of my short fiction, lovingly produced and lavishly illustrated. The book will make its debut at this year's worldcon in Toronto, where I'm the GOH.
The RRetrospective will be a huge book, spanning my entire career from my earliest work in comics fanzines right up to the present. It includes the good stuff from all of my old collections, so it could be considered a "best of" collection, but in fact it's more than that. It also contains material never before collected, and a few pieces never published previously in any form.
"Sandkings" is included, of course; my Hugo and Nebula winner. Also the Hugo winners "The Way of Cross and Dragon" and "A Song for Lya," as well as my Nebula winning "Portraits of His Children," my Bram Stoker winner "The Pear-Shaped Man," and my World Fantasy Award-winning novella "The Skin Trade." All my awards losers will be here as well (there are lot more of those), plus a lot of personal favorites never nominated for anything. The first of my Dunk & Egg novellas, "The Hedge Knight," is reprinted here for the first time since it appeared in Legends. Haviland Tuf is on board as well, and so is the Great and Powerful Turtle from Wild Cards.
Science fiction, horror, fantasy: the RRetrospective has them all. There's a section on my years in Hollywood, featuring my only original Twilight Zone teleplay and the first draft of my ill-fated Doorways pilot (quite different from the final shooting script) And for the real completists, we've even included a juvenalia section, with two stories that I wrote in college and one that I published in high school, in a comics fanzine. In addition, I've contributed thousands of words of original commentaries to preface each section of the collection. Gardner R. Dozois has contributed an introduction, and Leslie Kay Swigart a bibliography of my work.
Phil Parks is presently painting the cover for the Rretrospective, which promises to be a knockout. I'll post it here when it's done. The collection will also feature a full-page illustration for every story, drawn by wonderful lineup of artists: Janet Aulisio, Ron Brown, Tom Mandrake, Mark Nelson, Phil Parks, and Timothy Truman. Here are three of the interiors you'll see in GRRM, by Aulisio ("Unsound Variations"), Brown ("Meathouse Man"), and Nelson ("The Way of Cross and Dragon.") You'll get thirty more with the book.
Subterranean Press will release the book in three versions: a trade hardcover, a signed numbered edition in slipcase (limited to 400 copies), and a deluxe leatherbound lettered edition in sliptray (limited to 52 copies). The lettered state will retail for $300, the numbered for $125, and the trade hardcover for $40... a real bargain, since you'll be getting more than 1200 pages of fiction and commentary. Those who have other Subterranean titles on their shelves know the care they take with every book. The production will be first-rate.
For more details -- and to place your order -- go to Subterranean's website at
http://www.subterraneanpress.com/ The lettered and numbered editions are not expected to last long, so if you really want one, go at once.
Happy reading
"Have some Wine", the March Hare said,in an encouraging tone.
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. More I can't remember the last time I tried to read them... I guess I was sort of disappointed by it and the wait. BY memory it was a little bit of a wait before Book Three, but nothing like this...
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Also read New Spring by Jordan but didnt like that on every much:/
