Antes de vender millones de ejemplares y cosechar fama mundial por la saga Canción de Hielo y Fuego, George R. R. Martin publicó cuentos y novelas de fantasía, terror y ciencia ficción. Gracias a sus extraordinarias dotes narrativas y su capacidad magistral para crear mundos y personajes, se ha ganado el respeto de los lectores y la ovación de los jurados de los premios Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy Awards y varios más. La novela breve que da título a este volumen, acreedora al Premio Hugo en 1975, Una canción para Lya, nos traslada al universo de una pareja de telépatas que intenta descubrir el secreto de la aparente falta de evolución del pueblo shkeen y su fervor a los greeshka, un mortífero parásito; mientras tanto, su relación y el amor profundo que siempre se han tenido parecen estar en riesgo. Junto a Lya, esta edición incluye una vista panorámica del universo de mundos extraterrestres creados por el autor, como El segundo tipo de soledad y Con la mañana se pone la niebla.
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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.
