George R.R. Martin "Dying Of The Light" Signed Limited Edition No. 495 of 500 [Very Fine]

Personally signed by George R.R. Martin, the best-selling novelist, screenwriter, and television producer, known world-wide for the series of epic fantasy novels.

SLIPCASED SIGNED LIMITED EDITION No. 495 OF ONLY 500 PRODUCED

Subterranean Press 2012. George R.R. Martin "Dying Of The Light". Signed Limited Edition of only 500. This is number 495. Signed by George R.R. Martin directly onto the limitation page. Hardcover book with dust-jacket. 336 pages. This edition is now OUT OF PRINT. Very Fine without any flaws. The perfect addition to any fantasy collection or a gift for someone else. Illustrated by Tom Kidd. Isbn: 978-1-59606-254-2.

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Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Tom Kidd.

The Deluxe Limited Edition of Best-Selling fantasist George R. R. Martin’s first novel, illustrated with full-color end sheets, three full-color plates, and fifteen pen-and-ink illustrations by Tom Kidd.

For countless millennia, the planet Worlorn has been “creation’s castaway,” a cold, barren world drifting aimlessly through the darkness between the stars. When it wanders near the constellation called The Wheel of Fire, Worlorn experiences a brief, bright period of light and life and becomes the setting for an extravagant, multi-cultural celebration: the Festival of the Fringe. A few short years later, when the planet has moved on and the festival has ended, the light begins to die once again.

Into this realm of eternal twilight comes Dirk t’Larien, a rootless interstellar traveler. Dirk has come to Worlorn in response to a summons from Gwen Delvano, the woman who deserted him years before, the woman he has never stopped loving. Desperate to reconnect with Gwen, his “mistress of abandoned dreams,” he finds himself enmeshed in the unforeseen complexities of a world marked by alien sexual and domestic arrangements, unbridgeable cultural barriers, and rigid codes of conduct that can have lethal consequences. It is a world in which words carry extraordinary weight and names have the power to shape—and destroy—a life.

First published in 1977, Dying of the Light was George R.R. Martin’s first novel, and it immediately announced the presence of an extraordinary storyteller. More than thirty years later, it continues to stand as a singular accomplishment: an intimate epic in which the pleasures of grand-scale world building and the subtleties of human relationships stand seamlessly side-by-side.

Produced in two states:

• Limited: 500 signed numbered copies, bound in cloth
• Lettered: 26 signed copies, bound in leather, housed in a custom tray case

This listing is one of the 500 signed and numbered copies.

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):

"Virtuoso mastery of atmosphere justifies this deluxe, illustrated 35th anniversary reprint of Martin's debut, which long predates his star turn with Game of Thrones and its sequels. This is a young writer's book, full of romantic foreboding and foolishness. Nonetheless, Warlorn's grand, gloomy landscape is an evocative backdrop for characters obsessed with love, duty, and death, and their drama may well linger in the reader's memory for another 35 years."

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present). He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series, and contributed worldbuilding for the 2022 video game Elden Ring.

In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien", and in 2011, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He is a longtime citizen of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped fund Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema. The city commemorates March 29 as George R. R. Martin Day.

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Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genre. Subterranean works with a wide range of authors, from cult favorites to some of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world.

Based in Burton, Michigan, Subterranean issues approximately 45 titles each year. Since it began in 1995, both the publisher and numerous works it has produced have been honored with accolades including the World Fantasy, Locus, Horror Writers Association, and Hugo awards.

Among the authors Subterranean has worked with are Kelley Armstrong, Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, N.K. Jemisin, Stephen King, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Tamsyn Muir, John Scalzi, and many more.

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