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PW talks with George R.R. Martin of hybrids and cliches.(Interview)
You're just about to publish A Feast For Crows (Reviews, Oct. 3), the latest installment in your highly successful fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. But before that, you had retreated to Hollywood, making a living as a screenwriter after your first foray into novel writing went bust. What happened?
I wrote Fevre Dream, which was a historical horror novel. That was the first of my books to be published as "mainstream" [Poseidon, 1982]. It did quite well, got excellent reviews--sold better than my previous books. I was a hot commodity. Then I wrote The Armageddon Rag {Poseidon, 1983}, which was a real hybrid: rock and roll in the '60s, horror and dark fantasy, a …
