George Martin is the author of the best science fiction stories I’ve ever read. Many of his stories are interwoven into a common universe, beautiful, gloomy, frightening. Collections “Dying of the Light” and “This Tower of Ashes” give an opportunity to visit new worlds, as well as to appreciate George Martin as a brilliant writer of stories, not only the author of the well-known epic. The story “Dying of the Light ” is full of descriptions of the environment of a planet far, far away and human relations, such close to an ordinary person. The main character is interesting, the story is fascinating. Not all characters are pleasant to me, but rather because they are so well spelled out that they cause certain emotions.
I want to note that Martin’s stories inspire. Madly I want to write, and now to write briefly, not epic.