A Must Buy Grrm

[williamjm]

Windhaven blows. Excuse the pun. I hated the book a real snore fest. Ild say his weakest book to date. He co wrote it with turtledove I think.

Lisa Tuttle was the co-writer.

Windhaven was OK, but nothing particularly special. It reminded me of Anne McAffrey's Pern series, which isn't something I can say about any of GRRM's other books.

I've read all his novels, I'd probably rank them something like this:
1 - A Song Of Ice And Fire
2 - Fevre Dream
3 - Dying Of The Light
4 - Armageddon Rag
5 - Tuf Voyaging
6 - Windhaven

His short stories are often excellent as well.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

No mention of the Wild Cards series?

I know he only edits them these days, but I think he wrote one or two?

Interesting concept - not always nice characters, though

 

[genisis2]

Thanx WilliamJM.

 

[GOLLUM]

As a recent recipient of GRRM's Fevre Dream courtesty of our fearless leader I've only just started dipping into it now (whilst completing other stuff) but it's a wonderful read to date! It's more of a Vampiric tale set on the Mississippi river in the 1800s. Zelazny described it as Stephen King meets Mark Twain which so far appears an apt description.

 

[williamjm]

No mention of the Wild Cards series?

I know he only edits them these days, but I think he wrote one or two?

Interesting concept - not always nice characters, though

I've only read the first Wildcards book, which only featured a single story from GRRM (although he did edit it). I thought some of the stories were better than others, and I wasn't particularly fascinated by the setting (I guess I prefer Martin's usual haunts of Medieval Fantasy or far-future Science Fiction to mid-20th Century Superheros), so I've not yet got round to reading any more Wildcards, although I might do someday.

If I was to put in the list, I'd probably put it just above Windhaven.

 

[TK-421]

Thanks red temple and Winter's Sorrow. However, the first Legends book is hard to come across online and those copies available are ratter expensive. Does the graphic novel The Hedge Knight contain both Dunk & Egg stories (The Hedge Knight and Sworn Sword)? Worse comes to worse, I could buy the graphic novel and the Legends II, which is still available and reasonably priced.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Does the graphic novel The Hedge Knight contain both Dunk & Egg stories (The Hedge Knight and Sworn Sword)? Worse comes to worse, I could buy the graphic novel and the Legends II, which is still available and reasonably priced.

Sadly no.
The Hedge Knight graphic novel covers the first Dunk & Egg story only.

Sworn Sword (to my knowledge) has only appeared in Legends II.

I think GRRM has said he will release his Dunk & Egg novellas in a compendium, but maybe I dreamt that, and besides he's got about 6 of them in his head so it's a while off I think.

I liked Sworn Sword a lot more but perhaps that's because Duncan is more sure of his own abilities in that one.

 

[williamjm]

Thanks red temple and Winter's Sorrow. However, the first Legends book is hard to come across online and those copies available are ratter expensive. Does the graphic novel The Hedge Knight contain both Dunk & Egg stories (The Hedge Knight and Sworn Sword)? Worse comes to worse, I could buy the graphic novel and the Legends II, which is still available and reasonably priced.

Where are you? Amazon.co.uk is selling Legends 1 at the standard paperback price.

"The Hedge Knight" is also in the massive "GRRM:A RRetrospective" collection, which is currently rare and expensive, but I've heard there is to be a UK release of it sometime soon.

 

[TK-421]

Where are you? Amazon.co.uk is selling Legends 1 at the standard paperback price.

I'm in Canada and the cheapest I could find Legends 1 is for some ridiculous prices and that's used because it does not seem to be in either print or stock with either amazon.ca or chapters.indigo.ca. I might try used book stores around here before I go with the graphic novel and Legends II route. Thanks all again for the advice.

 

[Raven]

No mention of the Wild Cards series?

I know he only edits them these days, but I think he wrote one or two?

Interesting concept - not always nice characters, though

George co-wrote one full-length WC novel, and contributed to many more as well as editing them. He's never written a full-length solo WC novel, much as I would like to see him do so, preferably with the Turtle. (The only full-length solos in the series are by Victor Milan and John J Miller.)

Latterly he has let other authors use his WC characters, though, going back to editing only. But WC has many great authors involved...

 

[Dianora]

As a recent recipient of GRRM's Fevre Dream courtesty of our fearless leader I've only just started dipping into it now (whilst completing other stuff) but it's a wonderful read to date! It's more of a Vampiric tale set on the Mississippi river in the 1800s. Zelazny described it as Stephen King meets Mark Twain which so far appears an apt description.

I ordered Fevre Dream from amazon about a week ago, and I plan to read it soon. Stephen King meets Mark Twain? What a great description! Have you finished it yet? What's the final verdict?