First edition (publ. Dark Harvest)

Portraits of His Children is the sixth short story collection by author George R.R. Martin. The collection was first published in July 1987 by Dark Harvest.[1] It contains 11 short stories.

The hardcover edition featured interior artwork by illustrators Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn.[2]

The title story, originally published in November 1985 in Asimov's Science Fiction,[3] won the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[4]

Contents

#TitleYearNote
1"Closing Time"1982
2"The Glass Flower"1986Novelette
3The Ice Dragon1980Novelette
4"In the Lost Lands"1982
5"The Last Super Bowl Game"1975Novelette
6"The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr"1976Previously published in Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977)
7"Portraits of His Children"1985Novelette
8"Under Siege"1985Novelette
9"Unsound Variations"1982Novella
10"With Morning Comes Mistfall"1973Previously published in A Song for Lya (1976)
11"The Second Kind of Loneliness"1972Previously published in A Song for Lya (1976)

References

  1. ↑ "Bibliography | George R.R. Martin".
  2. ↑ "Publication: Portraits of His Children". isfdb.org.
  3. ↑ "Publication: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1985". isfdb.org.
  4. ↑ "Awards DRAFT | George R.R. Martin".


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