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George Raymond Richard Martin is an American Emmy winning novelist and scriptwriter working in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is popularly known as " GRRM " to his fans. Martin is credited on the Game of Thrones TV series as a producer and consultant. He has written the scripts for the eighth episode of the first season , the ninth episode of the second season , seventh episode of the third season and the second episode of the fourth season. However, he stated in an interview that he won't write an episode for Season 5 in order to finish the next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Martin filmed a cameo appearance in the unaired pilot episode of the TV series, as a background Pentoshi merchant wearing a gigantic hat, though this was later cut. The family was of mixed Irish and Italian heritage. Raymond worked as a longshoreman, and the family lived in a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks. The family followed Roman Catholicism, and at the age of 13 George received the confirmation name "Richard", hence "George Raymond Richard Martin" in later years, when working on the Game of Thrones TV series, George has described himself as a " lapsed Catholic ".
He became an avid fan of comic books while in high school: Fantastic Four 20 November contains a letter he wrote to the editor. He subsequently became involved in the comic book fanzine scene, and attended the very first Comi-Con convention in New York City. In his youth he also became a fan of science fiction and fantasy literature, such as the works of Robert Heinlein, Robert E.
Howard, Jack Vance and J. After college he held jobs as a journalist, chess tournament organizer and English teacher at a Christian women's college. He was married briefly in the mids, and has lived with his partner Parris in Santa Fe since They married in January Martin has chosen a turtle as his personal sigil, and he is often seen wearing a hat with a turtle pin on it.
Martin began writing his first short fiction in the late s, but wasn't published professionally until A lot of Martin's early work was set in the 'Thousand Worlds', an SF backdrop set millennia into the future where humanity has slowly spread into space and encountered other races. Sandkings was for many years his best-known story and was adapted for television as the pilot episode of the new Outer Limits in Martin moved into novel-length fiction with Dying of the Light , a sci-fi novel set in the Thousand Worlds milieu.
It was published in and was nominated for a Hugo the following year. He followed up on this book with Windhaven in , co-written with Lisa Tuttle. In he achieved significant critical and commercial success with Fevre Dream , a vampire novel set on the Mississippi around the time of the American Civil War which was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. His publishers eagerly signed up his follow-up, The Armageddon Rag , about a rock band whose comeback tour has supernatural overtones, but the book was a commercial failure, despite critical acclaim and a second World Fantasy Award nomination.
Although Martin successfully sold a collection of his Thousand World stories featuring the character of Haviland Tuf as Tuf Voyaging , his novel career seemed to have stalled at that point. The failure of The Armageddon Rag had a significant impact on Martin's fortunes, and there was little excitement over his next novel-in-progress, Black and White and Red All Over. Martin, although a huge fan of the original Rod Serling series, was hesitant to enter the competitive field of scriptwriting, but was convinced by the involvement of another writer he respected enormously, Harlan Ellison, as well as DeGuere's promise of backstage passes to Grateful Dead concerts.
When Ellison abruptly left the series due to creative clashes, Martin was brought in as a staff writer. When the show unexpectedly returned for a second season, Martin was bumped up to story editor, but the series was then taken off the air for "retooling" for its third season. Martin was not involved in the third season as Ron Koslow, a fan of his Twilight Zone work, had recruited him to be involved in his new urban fantasy series, Beauty and the Beast , starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman and Roy Dotrice.
Martin started as Executive Story Consultant and ended up as Supervising Producer on the third and final season. During his time on the show, he gained a reputation for being unafraid to kill off major characters to fan's ire and for showing the darker side of humanity. After the show ended, Martin had gained enough Hollywood credentials to attempt to launch his own show, Doorways , which eventually had a pilot produced by ABC in The pilot was never screened and the show never made, although a later series, Sliders , explored similar ideas.
Martin's first involvement with roleplaying games came when Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer Charles Stross 'borrowed' the githzerai and githyanki from his Thousand Worlds setting to use as Dungeons and Dragons monsters in an article for Dragon Magazine.
Martin himself was introduced to roleplaying games in the late s by Parris. His first game was Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium, and he was soon running his own game.
His gaming group became enamored of the game and setting, and Martin eventually hit on the idea of developing their campaign into a shared-world anthology series.
This idea proved successful, since such anthology series were all the rage in the mids thanks to the success of Lynn Abbey and Robert Asprin's Thieves World series, and Martin further enhanced the book by calling in experienced writers such as Roger Zelazny and Howard Waldrop to help expand it. Wild Cards was released in and was an immediate hit, and was succeeded by fourteen further books in the series, released over the next nine years.
Despite very strong sales to start with, by the mids interest was on the wane and after a relaunch with a new publisher proved unsuccessful, the series was 'rested', although occasional new books slipped out in and The series was relaunched by Tor Books in with a new trilogy taking a 'next generation' approach with no prior knowledge of the series required.
This relaunch was successful and extended to four new books, with the earlier volumes to be reprinted. Melinda Snodgrass wrote a spec film script which attracted interest in the wake of the success of the television series Heroes , and Daniel Abraham has written a successful six-issue comic book limited series based on the setting.
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