喬治·R.R.馬丁，1948年齣生於美國，世界級幻想文學大師，其著名小說包括《熱夜之夢》《沙王》《光逝》《風港》《圖夫航行記》《局中變》《子女的肖像》等。截止目前（2015年初），他一共獲得六次雨果奬、兩次星雲奬、一次世界奇幻奬（外加世界奇幻終身成就奬）和十四次軌跡奬等無數奬項。2007年，HBO購買其長篇小說《冰與火之歌》的改編版權，改編電視劇《權力的遊戲》於2011年上映，獲得巨大成功。2011年，美國《時代周刊》將馬丁評為“全世界最有影響力的一百位人物”。

Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective is a career-spanning collection of George R.R. Martin's short fiction. It was published by Subterranean Press in 2003 under the title GRRM: A RRetrospective. It features 34 pieces of fiction (including two TV scripts), an introduction by Gardner Dozois, commentary by Martin on each stage of his career, a Martin bibliography, and original art for each story. It was published in three formats: a trade hardback, a numbered hardback, and a numbered leatherbound version. The Washington Post called it "the most ambitious volume ever to come from an American specialty press".

A UK edition, running to over 1,200 pages, was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in September 2006. Bantam published this edition in the United States in 2007. Both editions carry the new title Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective.

List of stories

Dreamsongs is divided into nine thematic sections, with all the stories arranged in rough chronological order. The sections, and the stories they contain, are as follows:

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

[edit] 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

A Taste of Tuf

This section features two stories in the Haviland Tuf series, about an overweight space trader encountering various civilizations.

* A Beast for Norn (original version)

* Guardians

The Siren Song of Hollywood

This section features two television screenplays by George R. R. Martin. The former is a script for an episode of The Twilight Zone, and the latter is a pilot for a never-made science fiction series similar to Sliders.

* The Road Less Travelled (Twilight Zone teleplay)

* Doorways pilot/first draft (unproduced teleplay)

Doing the Wild Card Shuffle

This section features two of George R. R. Martin's contributions to the Wild Cards shared universe.

* Shell Games

* The Journal of Xavier Desmond

The Heart in Conflict

* Under Siege

* The Skin Trade

* Unsound Variations

* The Glass Flower

* The Hedge Knight (A Song of Ice and Fire novella)

* Portraits of His Children