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.