Portraits of His Children is the sixth short story collection by author George R.R. Martin. The collection was first published in July 1987 by Dark Harvest.[1] It contains 11 short stories.
The hardcover edition featured interior artwork by illustrators Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn.[2]
The title story, originally published in November 1985 in Asimov's Science Fiction,[3] won the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[4]
Contents edit
| # | Title | Year | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Closing Time" | 1982 | |
| 2 | "The Glass Flower" | 1986 | Novelette |
| 3 | The Ice Dragon | 1980 | Novelette |
| 4 | "In the Lost Lands" | 1982 | |
| 5 | "The Last Super Bowl Game" | 1975 | Novelette |
| 6 | "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" | 1976 | Previously published in Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977) |
| 7 | "Portraits of His Children" | 1985 | Novelette |
| 8 | "Under Siege" | 1985 | Novelette |
| 9 | "Unsound Variations" | 1982 | Novella |
| 10 | "With Morning Comes Mistfall" | 1973 | Previously published in A Song for Lya (1976) |
| 11 | "The Second Kind of Loneliness" | 1972 | Previously published in A Song for Lya (1976) |
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