Series
Thousand Worlds
George R. R. Martin & Howard Waldrop · 1 novel · 6 novellas · 11 novelettes · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1971–1986
George R.R. Martin's Thousand Worlds is a loose future-history setting he used for several of his 1970s-80s stories and novels, encompassing human interstellar colonization and encounters with older, stranger civilizations. Dying of the Light, A Song for Lya and the novella Nightflyers are among its best-known entries, sharing background rather than continuing characters or plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Haviland Tuf(9 works)
Map
Thousand Worlds at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s15
- 1980s9
Shape
1 novel · 6 novellas · 11 novelettes · 5 short stories · 1 collection
2 authors
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 43% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book23 of 24 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- And Seven Times Never Kill Mandarkest
- A Beast for Nornbrightest
- The Glass Flowercalmest
- Starladymost intense