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George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, and also a screenwriter and producer. He has been an instructor in journalism (in which he holds a master's degree) and a chess tournament director.Martin was a prolific author of short fiction in the 1970s, and won several Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards before he started to turn his attention to novels late in the decade. Although much of his work is fantasy or horror, a number of his earlier works are science fiction occurring in a loosely-defined future history.
In the 1980s he turned to work in television and as an editor. On television, he worked on the new Twilight Zone series, as well as Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast is a traditional folktale (type 425C search for a lost husband in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published. As an editor, he oversaw the lengthy Wild CardsWild Cards is a science fiction anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created, and mostly edited by, George R. There were 12 volumes published between 1987 and 1993 before it switched publishers, beginning a 'new cycle', with (initiall cycle, which took place in a shared universeA Shared universe is a literary technique in which several different authors share settings and characters which appear in their respective works of fiction, often referring to events taking place in the other writers' stories. It can also be called a "sh in which an alien virus bestowed strange powers or disfigurements on a slice of humanity during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, affecting the history of the world thereafter (the premise was perhaps inspired by comic bookA comic book (sometimes called funnies or funny paper is a book or magazine and more recently a graphic novel in the artistic medium known as comics. American comic books have become closely associated with the superhero genre, but the subject matter of c superheroA superhero is a fictional character who is noted for feats of courage and nobility and who usually has a colorful name and costume, and abilities beyond those of normal human beings. Superheroes spend much of their time battling monsters, natural disastees). Contributors to the Wild Cards series included Stephen LeighSteve Leigh is an American science fiction writer, bass guitarist and singer. Steve Leigh lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has won the Spectrum Award, been on the Locus Top 10 First Novel Recommended Books and Best Seller lists, and been nominated for the Ti, Lewis Shiner , Howard Waldrop, Walter Jon Williams and Roger Zelazny.
Martin's short story of the same name was adapted into the feature film Nightflyers ( 1987).
In 1996 Martin returned to writing novel-length stories, beginning his lengthy cycle A Song of Ice and Fire (ostensibly inspired by the success of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time cycle), to great critical acclaim. These are the books for which he is best known today.
