Recomendamos cautela ao ler estes contos: Há muitos vigaristas e canalhas à solta. Se gostou de ler Histórias de Aventureiros e Patifes, então não vai querer perder novas histórias com alguns dos maiores vigaristas e canalhas. São personagens infames que se recusam a agir preto no branco, e escolhem trilhar os seus próprios caminhos, à margem das leis dos homens. Personagens carismáticas, eloquentes, sem escrúpulos, que chegam até nós através de um formidável elenco de autores. Com organização de George R. R. Martin, um nome que já dispensa apresentações, e Gardner Dozois, tem nas mãos uma antologia de géneros multifacetados e que reúne algumas das mentes mais perversas da literatura fantástica. Ao ler este livro, estará à assinar um pacto de comunhão com os seguintes autores: Joe Abercrombie – autor da trilogia A Primeira Lei Garth Nix – autor da trilogia Sabriel Lisa Tuttle – co-autora de Windhaven Daniel Abraham – autor da série The Expanse
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George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin, born on September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey, is a distinguished fantasy and science fiction writer. Son to Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and Margaret Brady Martin, he grew up with two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten. Martin's passion for writing emerged early, selling monster stories to neighborhood kids, which later evolved into a keen interest in comic books during his high school years, where he also started writing fiction for comic fanzines. His first professional story, The Hero, was sold in 1970 at age 21 and published in Galaxy's February 1971 issue. After earning a B.S. and then a M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Martin served as a conscientious objector with VISTA, tied to the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation from 1972-1974, alongside directing chess tournaments and teaching journalism. His marriage to Gale Burnick in 1975 ended in divorce by 1979 without children. Martin transitioned to full-time writing in 1979, after a stint as writer-in-residence at Clarke College. In Hollywood, Martin contributed to Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast on CBS, later producing his own pilot, Doorways. Residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he's been actively involved with the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and the Writers' Guild of America, West.
Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction. Wikipedia entry: Gardner Dozois http://us.macmillan.com/author/gardne...
