Martin, George R. R

Haviland Tuf, owner of a seedship, a unique and powerful ship that can control the genetic material of thousands of creatures, travels to across space to tackle the problems that human settlers have created.

"In the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east--with new allies who may not be the ragtag band they seem. And in the frozen north, Jon Snow confronts creatures from beyond the Wall of ice and stone, and powerful foes from within the Night's Watch. In a time of rising relentlessness, the tides of destiny and politics lead a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, to the greatest dance of all.".

Contains original stories of star-crossed love by seventeen modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance, including Neil Gaiman, Diana Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, and others.

The Hedge Knight must defend his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms at the great tourney at Ashford Meadow against a world not quite ready for chivalry and his search for personal fame and glory may very well lead to his demise.

The light gravity and limited supply of metal fabric wings in the space colony lets only a few humans fly, and ground-confined Maris challenges the closed order of Flyers in order to fly.

Abner Marsh, blinded by his desire to own and operate the finest steamboat on the Mississippi, agrees to go into partnership with the vampire Joshua York, not realizing until the maiden voyage of the "Fevre Dream" exactly what he has gotten himself into.

Dr. Thomas Mason's normal life is turned upside-down one night when a mysterious young woman is brought into the Emergency Room where he is working. Before Thomas knows it, he is being chased by strange creatures and the U.S. government, and then, suddenly, he is on a different Earth than his own, with no apparent way to get home.

Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the forces of good and evil prepare for trouble in the land of Winterfell where summers can last for decades and winters a lifetime.

A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation.".