You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker

Greetings Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. This is a rather large audio episode so I'm just

going to jump right into it. The title of the piece is A Night at the Tarn House and is written by George R. R. R. Martin.

Hugo Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner George R. R. Martin,

New York Times best-selling author of the landmark A Song of Ice and Fire

Fantasy series.

The inspiration for the immensely popular HBO series, A Game of Thrones, has been called The American Tolkien.

Born in Bayon, New Jersey, George R. Am Martin made his first sale in 1971 and soon

established himself as one of the most popular SF fantasy and

horror writers of his generation. After decades spent working in Hollywood as a

writer and the story editor for a television series such as Beauty and the Beast and the Twilight Zone,

Martin made a triumphant return to the print world in 1996,

with the publication of the hugely successful fantasy novel The Game of Thrones,

the start of his song of ice and fire sequence.

His most recent book is a massive retrospective collection spanning the entire spectrum of his

career.

GRRM.

A retrospective, a novel written in collaboration with Gardner D'Swa,

and Daniel Abraham.

Hunter's Run, and as editor several anthologies added in collaborations with Gardner Desois,

Warriors, Songs of the Dying Earth, Songs of Love and Death down these strange streets,

Dangerous Women Old Mars Old Old Venus, and Rokes,

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