A Game of Thrones • SIGNED, 1st Edition PB, First Printing • George R.R. Martin

Description: ”A Game of Thrones”by George R.R. Martin Voyager, 1998 First (U.K.) Paperback Edition, 1st Impression • • Wraps: Very Good Light edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Light toning to spine. Handling and shelf wear very minor. Text: Very Good+ Voyager, 1996. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild handling wear present with some markings to panels - particular to rear panel. General toning and smudges to page edges. Light curling to spine ends with some toning. Interior clean and unmarked. Signed on the title page by the author. • • • Martin began selling science fiction short stories professionally in 1970, at age 21. His first sale was "The Hero", sold to Galaxy magazine and published in its February 1971 issue; other sales soon followed. His first story to be nominated for the Hugo Award[24] and Nebula Awards was "With Morning Comes Mistfall", published in 1973 in Analog magazine. In 1975 his story "...for a single yesterday" about a post-apocalyptic timetripper was selected for inclusion in Epoch, a science fiction anthology edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg. His first novel, Dying of the Light, was completed in 1976 right before he moved to Dubuque and published in 1977. That same year the enormous success of Star Wars had a huge impact on the publishing industry and science fiction, and he sold the novel for the same amount he would make in three years of teaching.[25] The short stories he was able to sell in his early 20s gave him some profit, but not enough to pay his bills, which prevented him from becoming the full-time writer he wanted to be. The need for a day job occurred simultaneously with the American chess craze which followed Bobby Fischer's victory in the 1972 world chess championship. Martin's own chess skills and experience allowed him to be hired as a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association that ran chess tournaments on the weekends. This gave him a sufficient income, and because the tournaments only ran on Saturdays and Sundays, it allowed him to work as a writer five days a week from 1973 to 1976. When the chess bubble subsequently burst and no longer provided an income, he had become much better established as a writer.

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