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Quartet contains 4 novellas by Martin...with intros by the author
Black and White and Red All Over is set in New York City in the 1890's, where yellow journalists are chasing Jack the Ripper. This was meant to be a novel, but sales of his previous novel (his sixties rock 'n roll fantasy novel, The Armageddin Rag) had not been very good, though that novel had been critically well-liked -- and he had to pay the bills, and no one would publish this one...so it was never finished...when he tried to go back to it a few years later when things were financially better, he realized that he had lost his inspiration for the story...
The Skin Trade is his werewolf novella. He wrote it as part a horror anthology -- and he claims he did his absolute best because he knew his story would be in an anthology with Stephen King and Dan Simmons and he wanted a story that could hold its own against theirs. This novella won the World Fantasy Award in 1989.
Starport is the two hour teleplay for a pilot of a show that was never picked up by any of the networks...Martin is a very admired television writer, as well as novelist....it was to be a science fiction cop show, with an emsemble cast inspired at least in part by Hill Street Blues, with hundreds of alien races brought to Earth...
Blood of the Dragon is the Dany chapters from A Game of Thrones, seperated from that book and put together as a novella for a magazine. It won the Hugo for best novella in 1997, and was also one of the finalists for the Nebula. It tells the story of a lonely, frightened, abused little girl who must learn how to become a queen...
(edited for my usual abysmal spelling and grammar) ******************************************************
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>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 11/10/03 9:56 pm
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