Game of Thrones in space? George RR Martin book review by Katherine Roberts
Game of Thrones fans will no doubt be keen to watch the new prequel House of the Dragon based on George RR Martin's Fire and Blood series, which tells the story of House Targaryen... Season 1 on DVD is definitely top of my Christmas list this year! Like many fantasy authors, George RR Martin has also explored other aspects of the genre. I recently discovered in a charity shop his science fiction collection Tuf Voyaging, which combines several linked novellas (previously published in SF magazines) into an entertaining yet deeply unsettling novel of bio-engineering and planetary disaster. Working on the principle that such books appear when it is the right time for me to read them, I couldn't help but read Tuf Voyaging against the backdrop of the past two years, and the comparison caused me to wake in a cold sweat on more than one occasion. In the first story, our hero - Haviland Tuf of the title - is an independent space trader hired t...