I like when assholes get what they deserve. With that as my philosophy, it’s no wonder I’ve produced a number of odd hybrids over the years. Some of the time we’ll make a mess, sure… but once in a while, if we do it right, we may stumble on a combination that explodes!

Let’s cross some genre lines and blur some boundaries, make some stories that are both and neither. “Let’s mix this with that and see what happens. It is infuriating, exhilarating and well-written.įevre Dream is a criminally under-read piece of vampire fiction, and I rate it just below Richard Matheson’s excellent I am Legend. The vampires are ruthless killers who think of humans as walking bags of blood to be used and tossed. The story is good and, more importantly, scary. You feel the heat and the humidity and you smell the marshes as you read. And (keep this to yourselves) I couldn’t help but envision George Martin himself as Abner while reading the book). No, Fevre Dream is about Abner Marsh, an overwieght Mississippi steamboat captain that is not exactly your typical protagonist. And not one of those recent ones where the vampires are full of self pity and, for some reason, fall in love with little girls many, many decades younger. Fevre Dreamįevre Dream is a vampire story.

Here are three stories of his that I highly recommend for Martin fans, while they wait for him to coax that sixth book out from his fingertips. Most of it is good or, at the very least, interesting. A Game of Thrones may be the most popular thing in the world right now, but before he reached Stephen King-fame, George Martin fiddled about with writing in a variety of genres, most notably horror and science fiction.

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