A collection of stories, novellas, teleplays, and commentary, features such works as "The Ice Dragon," "A Song for Lya," and "The Pear-Shaped Man."

"A Bantam Spectra book"--T.p. verso. Originally published in one volume as: GRRM : a retrospective. Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, c2003.

v. 1 : A four-color fanboy -- Only kids are afraid of the dark -- The fortress -- And death his legacy -- The filthy pro -- The hero -- The exit to San Breta -- The second kind of loneliness -- With morning comes mistfall -- The light of distant stars -- A song for Lya -- This tower of ashes -- And seven times never kill man -- The stone city -- Bitterblooms -- The way of cross and dragon -- The heirs of Turtle Castle -- The lonely songs of Laren Dorr -- The ice dragon -- In the lost lands -- Hybrids and horrors -- Meathouse man -- Remembering Melody -- Sandkings -- Nightflyers -- The monkey treatment -- The pear-shaped man. v. 2 : A taste of tuf -- A beast for norn -- Guardians -- The siren song of Hollywood -- The twilight zone: "The road less traveled" -- Doorways -- Doing the wild card shuffle -- Shell games -- From the journal of Xavier Desmond -- The heart in conflict -- Under siege -- The skin trade -- Unsound variations -- The glass flower -- The hedge knight -- Portraits of his children.