Author of the Week: George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin was born on September 20, 1948, is still alive and kicking, and mostly famous (in our circles) for his fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire (hereafter simply known as ‘Ice and Fire’, because the full title is too long, and the acronym ASoIaF is almost as bothersome to write).
When writing this first sentence I checked out Robert Jordan’s biography to see when he was born, so that I could scare you by drawing some parallels between unfinished epic fantasy series and old age. Uncanny as it might seem, Jordan and Martin were born on the [...]