The sources of this checklist are as follows:

  My own collection bought in stores all over the U.S., Ontario, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, and which has been generously supplemented over the years by gifts, especially foreign editions, from George. Thanks, George!

  The collection of George R. R. Martin himself, examined in April 2004 during a sabbatical leave from California State University, Long Beach. Thank you George! And thank you, CSULB!

  Previous bibliographies:

  Stephensen-Payne, Phil. George R. R. Martin: The Ace from New Jersey; A Working Bibliography. 2nd rev. edn. [Leeds, England; Albuquerque, NM]: Galactic Central [1989]. The original edition (1987) of this bibliography was the first separately published bibliography of Martin’s work.

  Marano, Lydia C. George R(aymond) R(ichard) Martin: Bibliography. Manuscript bibliography, dated 31 May 1994, prepared for an unrealized publication.

  Miller, John J. Collecting George R. R. Martin. Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine, 11 (9), November 2001: 36-45. Provides valuation ranges for first editions.

  Other indexes, catalogs, and websites:

  Brown, Charles N., and William G. Contento. The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998) [and annual supplements]. 2004-2006.

  [http://www.locusmag.com/index/; latest access: 2007-02-02]

  Contento, William G. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition. 2005. [http://contento.best.vwh.net/0start.htm; latest access: 2007-02-02]

  George R. R. Martin Bibliography [and] George R. R. Martin Cover Art Gallery. George R. R. Martin Official Website.

  [http://www.georgerrmartin.com; latest access: 2007-01-28]

  George R. R. Martin—Bibliography Summary. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. [http://www.isfdb.com]; latest access: 2007-02-02]

  Index Translationum, 1971-date. [print: 1971-1977; electronic: 1978-date, http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/; latest access: 2007-02-02]

  Martin, George R. R. Bibliografía general. Términus Trántor. 2007.

  [http://www.ttrantor.org; latest access: 2007-02-10]

  National Library catalogs too numerous to mention.

  O autorovi: Martin, George R. R. Daemon: Internetové knihkopectví on-line. 2007.

  [http://www.daemon.cz; latest access: 2007-02-09]

  Pree, Christian. Bibliographie der deutschsprachiger Science Fiction-Stories und Bücher/Bibliography of German Science Fiction Stories and Books. 1998-2007.

  [http://www.chpr.at/sfstorye.htm; latest access: 2007-02-02]

  Vegetti, Ernesto, Pino Cottogni, and Ermes Bertoni. Catalogo SF, Fantasy e Horror. 2007. [http://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/index.htm; latest access: 2007-02-02]

  WorldCat [OCLC; latest access 2007-02-03]

  Order of information and the abbreviations used in this checklist:

  For Books and Books Edited:

  Title of Book [type of book]

  a. [Hardcover, paperback or trade paper indicator] Place of publication: publisher name, year of publication. Original price in country of publication (additional prices in other countries, if given). Note: Only first American and British editions are given, with the occasional limited edition where that edition is not the first. There are several foreign-language collections which have no English-language equivalent; these volumes are not given here.

  b. Foreign languages, adaptations, and other formats into which book is known to have been translated.

  c. Contents of collections are given based on the first American publication.

  For Scripts:

  a. [TV scripts] “Episode title.” Series title, first airdate.

  b. [Film scripts] Title. Producing company, year of first release.

  For Short Fiction:

  a. [In periodicals:] Title of story. Periodical title, volume # (issue number; whole issue #), date. [Abbreviations for appearances in Martin’s own collections, see below.]

  b. [In books:] Title of story. Title of collection. Editor. Place of publication: publisher name, year of publication. [Abbreviations for appearances in Martin’s own collections, see below.]

  c. Foreign languages, adaptations, and other formats into which story is known to have been translated.

  Abbreviations for Martin collections in which the story also appears:

  SLya = A Song for Lya and Other Stories [1976]

  SongsS&S = Songs of Stars and Shadows [1977]

  Wind = Windhaven [1981; novel based on previously published stories]

  Sks = Sandkings [1981]

  SongsDMS = Songs the Dead Men Sing [1983]

  Nflyrs = Nightflyers [the collection; 1985]

  TufV = Tuf Voyaging [1986]

  Portraits = Portraits of His Children [1987]

  Quartet = Quartet [2001]

  GRRM = GRRM: A RRetrospective [2003; aka: Dreamsongs]

  General Abbreviations:

  Audio = audio recording (cassette or CD)

  AudioBPH = audio recording for blind or physically handicapped

  E-audio = electronic sound file/audio recording

  E-text = electronic book or other electronic-based text

  Ed. = Edited, or Editor

  Graphic = graphic story or comic adaptation

  HC = hardcover edition

  Ltd = limited edition

  PB = mass market paperback edition

  TPB = trade paperback edition

  Video = Video recording (VHS, Videodisc, or DVD)

  Books By:

  A Song for Lya and Other Stories [Short Story Collection]

  [PB] New York: Avon, 1976. $1.25

  [PB.] Sevenoaks, UK: Coronet, 1978. 85p

  Other forms: Czech; French; German; Italian; Spanish.

  Contents: With Morning Comes Mistfall. The Second Kind of Loneliness. Override. Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels. The Hero. fta. Run to Starlight. The Exit to San Breta. Slide Show. A Song for Lya.

  Songs of Stars and Shadows [Short Story Collection]

  [PB] New York: Pocket, 1977. $1.75

  [PB] London: Coronet, 1981. 95p

  Other forms: Czech; French; German; Italian.

  Contents: Introduction. This Tower of Ashes. Patrick Henry, Jupiter, and the Little Red Brick Spaceship. Men of Greywater Station [written with Howard Waldrop]. The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr. Night of the Vampyres. The Runners. Night Shift. “…for a single yesterday.” And Seven Times Never Kill Man.

  Dying of the Light [Novel based on previously published serialized novel in Analog (1977) as: After the Festival]

  [HC] New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. $9.95

  [HC] London: Victor Gollancz, 1978. £4.95

  Other forms: Czech; Dutch; French; German; Italian; Polish; Russian; Spanish; AudioBPH; E-text.

  Hugo Awards nominee.

  Windhaven. Written with Lisa Tuttle. [Novel based on previously published stories (1975, 1980, 1981)]

  [HC] New York: Timescape, 1981. $13.95

  [PB] London: New English Library, 1982. £1.50

  Other forms: Bulgarian; Croatian; Czech; Dutch; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Polish; Russian; Spanish; Braille (French); E-text.

  Contents: Novel based on previously published stories: Storms [original title: The Storms of Windhaven]; One-Wing; The Fall (published contemporaneously in Amazing).

  Nightflyers. [Novella expanded from the originally published story (1980)]

  [PB] Binary Star No. 5: Nightflyers [by] George R. R. Martin, [and] True Names [by] Vernor Vinge. New York: Dell, 1981. $2.50

  Other forms: Czech; French; Polish; Russian.

  Hugo Awards nominee.

  Sandkings [Short Story Collection]

  [PB] New York: Pocket, 1981. $2.75

  [PB] London: Futura, 1983. £2.25 ($6.95 Australia)

  Other forms: Czech; German; Japanese; Polish.

  Contents: The Way of Cross and Dragon. Bitterblooms. In the House of the Worm. Fast-Friend. The Stone City. Starlady. Sandkings.

  Fevr
e Dream [Novel]

  [HC] New York: Poseidon, 1982. $14.95

  [HC] London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. £7.95

  [HC Ltd] Burton, MI: Subterranean (forthcoming)

  Other forms: French; German; Hebrew; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Polish; Russian; Spanish; AudioBPH; E-text.

  World Fantasy Awards nominee.

  Songs the Dead Men Sing [Short Story Collection]

  [HC Ltd] Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1983. $35.00 [for 500 for sale copies] [Limitation statement: “The First Edition of Songs the Dead Men Sing is limited to five hundred individually signed and numbered copies.” Marano notes that there were also 50 presentation copies, and six proofs.]

  [HC] London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. £9.95

  Other forms: Czech; Spanish.

  Contents: George R. R. Martin, Dark Harbinger [introduction, by A. J. Budrys]. The Monkey Treatment. “…for a single yesterday.” In the House of the Worm. The Needle Men. Meathouse Man. Sandkings. This Tower of Ashes. Nightflyers [expanded version]. Remembering Melody.

  The Armageddon Rag: A Stereophonic Long-Playing Novel [Novel]

  [HC] New York: Poseidon, 1983. $15.95

  [HC Ltd] Omaha [and] Kansas City: Nemo, 1983. $50.00 [for 500 for sale copies] [Limitation statement: “This special collector’s first edition is limited to 540 signed and slipcased copies, of which 500 are for sale, 14 are specially marked and numbered as review copies, and the remaining 26, marked A through Z, are reserved for the Press, having been designated as presentation copies. Six of these presentation copies are hand-bound in leather and are personalized with foil stamping.”]

  [PB] Sevenoaks [UK]: New English Library, 1984. £2.95

  Other forms: Croatian; French; German; Polish; Swedish; Braille; E-text.

  World Fantasy Awards nominee.

  Nightflyers [Short Story Collection]

  [TPB] New York: Bluejay, 1985. $8.95

  Contents: Nightflyers [expanded version]. Override. Weekend in a War Zone. And Seven Times Never Kill Man. Nor the Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring. A Song for Lya.

  Tuf Voyaging [Short Story Collection]

  [HC] New York: Baen, 1986. $15.95

  [HC] London: Victor Gollancz, 1987. £10.95

  Contents: Prologue. The Plague Star. Loaves and Fishes. Guardians. Second Helpings. A Beast for Norn [rewritten version]. Call Him Moses. Manna From Heaven.

  Other forms: Bulgarian; Czech; Lithuanian; Polish; Romanian; Russian; Spanish.

  Portraits of His Children [Short Story Collection]

  [HC Ltd] Arlington Hts, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1987. $150.00 [52 copies lettered, signed, boxed]; $39.95 [Limitation statement: “This deluxe first edition of Portraits of His Children is limited to four hundred fifty individually signed and numbered copies.] [Note: Marano says: 75 presentation copies and 24 proofs also]

  [HC] Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1987. $18.95 [2500 copies]

  Other forms: Czech.

  Contents: A Sketch of Their Fathers [introduction by Roger Zelazny]. With Morning Comes Mistfall. The Second Kind of Loneliness. The Last Super Bowl. The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr. The Ice Dragon. In the Lost Lands. Unsound Variations. Closing Time. Under Siege. The Glass Flower. Portraits of His Children.

  Dead Man’s Hand [Novel; written with John J. Miller; Wild Cards, 7]

  See below: Books Edited By GRRM

  The Pear-Shaped Man [separate publication of short story (1987)].

  [PB] Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse, 1991. (Short Story Paperback, #37) $1.95

  [HC] Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse, 1991. (Short Story Hardback, #24) $20.00 [Limitation statement: Short Story Hardback Issue Twenty-Four: The Pear-Shaped Man by George R. R. Martin has been published in a limited edition of 100 copies. 100 limited, signed, and numbered 1-100.]

  Other forms: E-text.

  A Game of Thrones [Novel; A Song of Ice and Fire, 1]

  [The opening chapters published in a mass-market paperback format as a “preview edition.”] London: HarperCollins, 1996. £0.99

  [HC] New York: Bantam, 1996. $21.95 ($29.95 Canada)

  [HC] London: HarperCollins, 1996. £16.99

  [HC Ltd] Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000. [Limitation Statement: This edition of A Game of Thrones is limited to 500 copies, 52 lettered and 448 numbered. This is letter/number ___. A GAME OF THRONES. Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire.]

  Other forms: Bulgarian; Chinese (PRC); Chinese (Taiwan); Croatian; Czech; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Hebrew; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Serbian; Spanish; Swedish; Audio; AudioBPH; E-audio; E-text.

  Nebula Awards nominee; World Fantasy Awards nominee.

  A Clash of Kings [Novel; A Song of Ice and Fire, 2]

  [HC] London: HarperCollins, 1998. £17.99

  [HC] New York: Bantam, 1999. $25.95

  [HC Ltd] Atlanta, CA: Meisha Merlin, 2003. [Limitation Statement: This edition of A Game of Thrones [sic!] is limited to 500 copies, 52 lettered and 448 numbered. This is letter/number ___. A CLASH OF KINGS. Book Two of A Song of Ice and Fire.]

  Other forms: Bulgarian; Chinese (PRC); Chinese (Taiwan); Croatian; Czech; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Hebrew; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Polish; Russian; Serbian; Spanish; Swedish; Audio; AudioBPH; E-audio; E-text.

  Nebula Awards nominee.

  A Storm of Swords [Novel; A Song of Ice and Fire, 3]

  [HC] London: HarperCollins, 2000. £17.99

  [HC] New York: Bantam, 2000. $26.95 ($39.95 Canada)

  [HC Ltd] [Burton, MI]: Subterranean, 2006. [Limitation Statement: This special signed edition is limited to 448 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. This is copy ___.]

  Other forms: Bulgarian; Chinese (Taiwan); Czech; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Hebrew; Hungarian; Italian; Korean; Polish; Russian; Serbian; Spanish; Audio; AudioBPH; E-audio; E-text.

  Nebula Awards nominee; Hugo Awards nominee.

  Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads [Collection; edited by Christine Carpenito]

  [HC Ltd] Framingham, Massachusetts: NESFA, 2001. [Limitation statement: “Quartet was printed in an edition of 1200 numbered hardcover books, of which the first 200 were signed by the author and artist, bound with special endpapers and slipcased. Of these 200 copies, the first 10 are lettered A through J and the remainder are numbered 1 through 190. The trade copies are numbered 191 through 1190.”]

  [HC] Framingham, Massachusetts: NESFA, 2001. $25.00

  [TPB] Framingham, Massachusetts: NESFA, 2001. $15.00

  Contents: Introduction. Black and White and Red All Over [novel fragment]. Skin Trade. StarPort [script]. Blood of the Dragon.

  GRRM: A RRetrospective [Short Story Collection]

  [HC Ltd] Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2003. [Limitation Statement: This special signed edition is limited to 400 numbered copies and 52 letter copies. This is copy ___.] Note: Includes chapbook: The Last Defender of Camelot. Teleplay by George R. R. Martin. Story by Roger Zelazny. Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2003.

  [HC] Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2003. $40.00

  [HC; retitled:] Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective. London: Gollancz, 2006. £20.00

  Contents: George R. R. Martin [introduction by Gardner Dozois]. ONE: A Four-Color Fanboy [introduction]. Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark. The Fortress. And Death His Legacy. TWO: The Filthy Pro [introduction]. The Hero. The Exit to San Breta. The Second Kind of Loneliness. With Morning Comes Mistfall. THREE: The Light of Distant Stars [introduction]. Song for Lya. This Tower of Ashes. And Seven Times Never Kill Man. The Stone City. Bitterblooms. The Way of Cross and Dragon. FOUR: The Heirs of Turtle Castle [introduction]. The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr. The Ice Dragon. In the Lost Lands. FIVE: Hybrids and Horrors [introduction]. Meathouse Man. Remembering Melody. Sandkings. Nightflyers. The Monkey Treatment. The Pear-Shaped Man. SIX: A Taste of Tuf [introduction]. A Beast for Norn. Guardians. SEVEN: The Siren Song of Hollywood: [introduction]. The Twilight Zone: The Road Less Traveled. Doorways. EIGHT: Doing the Wild Card Shuffle [int
roduction]. Shell Games. From the Journal of Xavier Desmond. NINE: The Heart in Conflict [introduction]. Under Siege. The Skin Trade. Unsound Variations. The Glass Flower. The Hedge Knight. Portraits of His Children. George R. R. Martin: A RRetrospective Fiction Checklist, As of 31 December 2002 [bibliography, by Leslie Kay Swigart].

  The Hedge Knight. George R. R. Martin, writer. Ben Avery, adaptation. Mike S. Miller, pencils. Mike Crowell, inks. Team Kandora, colors/transparency digital. Bill Tortolini, lettering/lithium pro design. Robert Silverberg, editor. Elio M. Garcia [and] Linda Antonsson, thematic consultants. [Graphic adaptation of novella (1998)]

  [TPB] [np]: DB Pro [and] Devil’s Due, 2003 [2004]. $14.95

  Other forms: Originally released as a limited-run comic book, 2003 (August)-2004 (April) from Image Comics, then Devil’s Due. Italian; Spanish; Turkish.

  Shadow Twin. Written with Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham. [Novella]

  [HC Ltd] Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2005. $150.00 (signed lettered) $40.00 (signed limited) [Limitation Statement: This special signed edition is limited to 500 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies.]

  A Feast for Crows [Novel; A Song of Ice and Fire, 4]