![]() ![]() By now he had mostly moved away from Analog, although he would have a long sequence of stories about the droll interstellar adventures of Haviland Tuf (later collected in Tuf Voyaging) running throughout the eighties in the Stanley Schmidt Analog, as well as a few strong individual pieces such as the novella “Nightflyers.” Most of his major work of the late seventies and early eighties, though, would appear in Omni. These stories would be collected in Sandkings, one of the strongest collections of the period. One of his Analog stories, the striking novella “A Song for Lya,” won him his first Hugo Award, in 1974.īy the end of the seventies he had reached the height of his influence as a science fiction writer, and was producing his best work in that category with stories such as the famous “Sandkings,” his best-known story, which won both the Nebula and the Hugo in 1980 (he’d later win another Nebula in 1985 for his story “Portraits of His Children”) “The Way of Cross and Dragon,” which won a Hugo Award in the same year (making Martin the first author ever to receive two Hugo Awards for fiction in the same year): “Bitterblooms” “The Stone City” “Starlady” and others. He quickly became a mainstay of the Ben Bova Analog with stories such as “With Morning Comes Mistfall,” “And Seven Times Never Kill Man,” “The Second Kind of Loneliness,” “The Storms of Windhaven” (in collaboration with Lisa Tuttle, and later expanded by them into the novel Windhaven), “Override,” and others, although he also sold to Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, Orbit, and other markets. Martin made his first sale in 1971, and soon established himself as one of the most popular SF writers of the seventies. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of the landmark A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, has been called “the American Tolkien.”īorn in Bayonne, New Jersey, George R. Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winner George R. Originally published Amazing Stories 1976 and Songs of Stars and Shadows Main Fiction: “Men of Greywater Station” by George R. ![]()
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