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Post by maestercambodia on Jun 6, 2016 11:55:50 GMT

Some posters have be referencing other non-ASOIAF-world writings of GRRM to seek clues for motifs etc in ASOIAF. Seems a damned good idea to me, so I got my hands on his whole corpus. Geez, he's written a lot - I've got 32 stories and some in anthologies that he's contributed to or edited.

Just read 'A Song for Lya' - excellent: short, not multi-dimensional so can take it all in in one read, great plot, early exploration of greenseeing.

So, what next? I'm a busy guy so I need you to help me select just a few short stories that bear some relation to ideas developed in ASOIAF.

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Post by Lady Dyanna on Jun 6, 2016 19:43:54 GMT

Several of us have been reading along with prestonjacobs 1000 World video series. There's a thread for it in the video section. Personally, I've really enjoyed the Tuf Voyaging Series so far, but I think there are shared themes in just about everything I have read.

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I second Lady Dyanna. Tuf's Voyages are good stories. I know that asoiaf isn't set in the 1000 Worlds, but it ~could~ be an ancient or post-apocalyptic world. Our author really hasn't strayed that far from his own Universe's schema imo.

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Post by maestercambodia on Jun 7, 2016 5:46:56 GMT

Cheers. I'm looking for clues in motifs GRRM has previously used, so there's no need for links to his '1000 worlds'.

I've just read the Sandkings to add to A Song for Lya - quite reminiscent of Tales of the Unexpected. Gripping yarns, but not multi-layered like ASOIF as I mentioned.

Any idea what the Wild Cards series is about - looks pulpy to me. Are the ones with 'Kraken' and 'Dragon' in the titles linked to ASOIF? And how about his contributions to New Twilight Zone - worth viewing?

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Jun 7, 2016 5:46:56 GMT maestercambodia said:

Cheers. I'm looking for clues in motifs GRRM has previously used, so there's no need for links to his '1000 worlds'.

I've just read the Sandkings to add to A Song for Lya - quite reminiscent of Tales of the Unexpected. Gripping yarns, but not multi-layered like ASOIF as I mentioned.

Any idea what the Wild Cards series is about - looks pulpy to me. Are the ones with 'Kraken' and 'Dragon' in the titles linked to ASOIF? And how about his contributions to New Twilight Zone - worth viewing?

Sandkings and A Song for Lya are both a part of the 1000 worlds universe. I highly recommend prestonjacobs' story order though:

thelasthearth.com/thread/283/pjs-new-1000-worlds-series

Makes the short stories fit together in a way that makes it feel like a multilayered ASOIAF book.

And really, after going through them, I feel like short stories are grrm's true medium. ASOIAF feels multilayered, imo, because it is basically a bunch of short stories taking place on the same planet.

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maestercambodia Jon Connington Posts: 118 maestercambodia inherit Male 226 0 Apr 19, 2019 2:40:18 GMT 202 maestercambodia 118 Jon Connington Jun 1, 2016 2:07:58 GMT June 2016 maestercambodia	GRRM - what to read? Jun 8, 2016 6:26:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by maestercambodia on Jun 8, 2016 6:26:18 GMT Enjoying this. Quick question - I opened an identical thread on westeros.org and it was rather quickly shut down. Any idea why they would do that?

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