Portraits of His Children
1987 short story collection by George R. R. Martin
Portraits of His Children is the sixth short story collection by author George R.R. Martin. The collection was first published in July 1987 by Dark Harvest.[1] It contains 11 short stories.
The hardcover edition featured interior artwork by illustrators Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn.[2]
The title story, originally published in November 1985 in Asimov's Science Fiction,[3] won the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[4]
Contents
# | Title | Year | Note |
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1 | "Closing Time" | 1982 | |
2 | "The Glass Flower" | 1986 | Novelette |
3 | The Ice Dragon | 1980 | Novelette |
4 | "In the Lost Lands" | 1982 | |
5 | "The Last Super Bowl Game" | 1975 | Novelette |
6 | "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" | 1976 | Previously collected in Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977) |
7 | "Portraits of His Children" | 1985 | Novelette |
8 | "Under Siege" | 1985 | Novelette |
9 | "Unsound Variations" | 1982 | Novella |
10 | "With Morning Comes Mistfall" | 1973 | Previously collected in A Song for Lya (1976) |
11 | "The Second Kind of Loneliness" | 1972 | Previously collected in A Song for Lya (1976) |
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Works by George R. R. Martin
- Dying of the Light
- Windhaven
- Fevre Dream
- The Armageddon Rag
- Hunter's Run
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A Song of Ice and Fire |
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- Wild Cards
- Songs of the Dying Earth
- Warriors
- Songs of Love and Death
- Down These Strange Streets
- Old Mars
- Dangerous Women
- Rogues
- Old Venus
- A Song for Lya
- Songs of Stars and Shadows
- Sandkings
- Songs the Dead Men Sing
- Nightflyers
- Tuf Voyaging
- Portraits of His Children
- Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads
- Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective
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Game of Thrones |
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- Nightflyers (film)
- Elden Ring (video game)
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