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Quite a bit of his older stuff is, sadly, out of print in the US, though supposedly readily available overseas. Fevre Dream is an example of this. He has won many awards for his short fiction, so you might want to check out some of his anthologies, such as A Song for Lya which is science fiction short stories, or Quartet, which is four novellas -- one of them a werewolf story.
One thing about Martin is that his books are very character driven. He creates very vivid characters.
Another is that his work can usually be read on more than one level -- one as straight forward adventure story -- but there is always another layer or two bubbling underneath. In Fevre Dream there is one layer of story dealing with the river boats and vampires -- but there is another layer underneath dealing with human rights, slavery, personal integrity, etc. It's always there, but he doesn't shove it down his readers' throats, so you can take it or leave it. I am always glad to take it, but I know many people who read his books as straight-forward stories of adventure, too. ******************************************************
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Perhaps I'll come for you myself some night. You ought to see me...my fur is white now, pale as snow,but the stature, the majesty, the power, those have not left me...We are the direwolves, the nightmares who haunt your racial memories, the dark shapes circling endlessly beyond the light of your fires.~George R.R. Martin<i></i>
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