Tuf Voyaging

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(thing) by aznin (3.6 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Feb 12 2001 at 2:38:47

Collection of short stories by fantasy and SF author George R. R. Martin. While Martin recently became very popular with the fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones" and its sequels, some of his older science fiction work is superb.

The stories in "Tuf Voyaging" connect to form the tale of Haviland Tuf, the space trader who acquires an immensely powerful spaceship that allows him to control the ecology of entire planets. The collection starts out whimsical, turns into a fast-paced series of ecological problem-solving stories, and ends on a very serious note, meditating on the effects of absolute power on the protagonist.

The majority of the stories in "Tuf Voyaging" appeared in the magazine Analog between 1978 and 1985. The collection itself was first published in 1987.

George R. R. Martin	Going to a movie on the opening night	Windhaven	analog
The Ark	Lois McMaster Bujold	populist	Science fiction
SF	fantasy	The Encyclopedia of Fantasy	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
ecology	spaceship	A Game of Thrones	Generation starship
Fevre Dream	Robert Asprin	absolute power

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