BONUS: Each selection includes extensive commentary by author George R. R. Martin Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offers fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.

Over 400,000 words. More than 1,000 pages, including nine novellas, unpublished teleplays, rare, never before collected short stories, and a small volume's worth of introductions and commentary. Each of the more than 30 stories will feature a full-page black and white illustration commissioned especially for this volume by Tim Truman, Mark A. Nelson, Janet Aulisio, Ron Brown and other fine artists GRRM will be available only from Subterranean Press, in three editions: Trade: fully cloth bound sewn hardcover
Limited: 400 signed numbered hardcover copies housed in a handcrafted slipcase
Lettered: 52 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a handcrafted traycase, with original art not in the Limited or Trade editions Contents: ONE: A FOUR-COLOR FANBOY • Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark • The Fortress • And Death His Legacy TWO: BREAKING THROUGH • The Hero • The Exit to San Breta • The Second Kind of Loneliness • With Morning Comes Mistfall THREE: THE LIGHT OF DISTANT STARS • A Song for Lya • This Tower of Ashes • And Seven Times Never Kill Man • The Stone City • Bitterblooms • The Way of Cross and Dragon FOUR: SWORDS OF TURTLE CASTLE • The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr • The Ice Dragon • In the Lost Lands FIVE: HYBRIDS AND HORRORS • Meathouse Man • Remembering Melody • Sandkings • Nightflyers • The Monkey Treatment • The Pear-Shaped Man FIVE: A TASTE OF TUF • A Beast for Norn (original version) • Guardians SIX: HURRAH FOR HOLLYWOOD • The Road Less Travelled (Twilight Zone teleplay) • DOORWAYS pilot/ first draft (unproduced teleplay) SEVEN: WILD CARDS • Shell Games • The Journal of Xavier Desmond EIGHT: THE HEART IN CONFLICT • Bat Durston, the Bard, and Me (speech) • Under Siege • The Skin Trade • Unsound Variations • The Glass Flower • The Hedge Knight • Portraits of His Children

Martin már A tűz és jég dala világrengető sikere előtt is komoly hírnévre tett szert, a fantasytől a science fictionön át a horrorig számos műfajban alkotott maradandót. Az Álomdalok első kötete e csodálatosan sokszínű életmű első húsz évéből válogat. Különleges csemege ez Martin rajongóinak: bepillantást enged abba az írói életútba, amelynek során a képregényrajongó kölyökből többszörösen díjnyertes író lett. Az Álomdalok remekbe szabott írásaiban megtalálható minden, ami miatt olvasók tízmilliói rajonganak George R. R. Martin történeteiért.