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"Sandkings" is a novelette by American writer George R. R. Martin, first published in the August 1979 issue of Omni. In 1980, it won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette , the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Locus Award for best novelette, and was nominated for the Balrog Award in short fiction. [1]
Sandkings is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer George R. R. Martin, published by Timescape Books in December 1981. The collection won the Locus Award for best single author collection.
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1. Dez. 1981 · George R.R. Martin. 4.22. 5,742 ratings520 reviews. When Simon Kress returned to his home planet of Baldur from an offworld business trip, he was amused to find that his tank of Earth piranhas had cannibalized themselves into extinction, and of the two exotic animals that roamed his estate, only one remained. Now, in search of some ...
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Simon Kress, a wealthy playboy on the planet Baldur, loves to collect dangerous, exotic animals. When most of his pets die after being left alone during a long business trip, he ventures into the city to find replacements. He is unsatisfied by the offerings in the stores he has patronized in the past, but eventually comes across a mysterious new es...
In the introduction to the Sandkings anthology, Orson Scott Card compares the story to Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, claiming that it depicts “the irresponsibility of a man who plays at being God, and the peril he faces when his monster turns on him.” Kenia Sedler concurs that there is a critique of religion in Simon Kress' cruelty, as it...
According to Martin, Sandkings was the third of three stories he wrote during the Christmas break in the winter of 1978-79. The other two were The Way of Cross and Dragon and The Ice Dragon. At the time writing, he considered Sandkingsto be the least impressive of the three, but it ended up being one of his most well-received publications. This suc...
Sandkings was first published in the August 1979 issue of Omni. It was included in Martin's short story collections Sandkings, published in 1981, and Songs the Dead Men Sing, published in 1983. It was later included in his 2003 anthology Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective.
In 1987, Sandkingswas adapted as the seventh of the DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel series, by writer Doug Moench and artists Pat Broderick and Neal McPheeters. In 1995, Sandkings was adapted into a television film that served as the first episode of The Outer Limits relaunch. The script was adapted by Melinda M. Snodgrass, Martin's co-editor for ...
In 1980, Sandkingswon the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Locus Award for Best Novelette, and was nominated for the Balrog Award in Short Fiction. It is the only one of Martin's stories to date to have won both the Hugo and the Nebula. According to Gardner Dozois, by the end of the 1970s, Sandkings was Martin's "best known story." Martin claim...
Sandkingsis set on Baldur, a planet in the Manrealm which is mentioned in several other stories. In A Song for Lya, Robb compares the Tower of Schkeen to the "gaunt skyscrapers" of Baldur and Old Earth. He also notices some novels from Baldur in the Tower library. Robb and Lya dine at a restaurant which is described as having Baldurian decor and co...
Sandkings is unique among the "Thousand World" stories for the unflinching cruelty and immorality of its protagonist Simon Kress. However, Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Firefeatures point-of-view characters with similarly villainous attributes, such as the chapters of Theon and Victarian Greyjoy, and Jaime and Cersei Lannister.
Sandkings contains a similar plot device to Oscar Wilde's 1890 Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Grey, wherein a vain, wealthy young man is gifted eternal youth after having his portrait painted by an admirer. The more he indulges in vice, hedonism and cruelty, however, the uglier the painting becomes. Likewise, Simon in Sandkingsis a vain, wealth...
3. März 2021 · George R.R. Martin war bereits lange vor Game of Thrones ein gefragter und etablierter Autor. So setzte Regisseur Robert Collector schon 1987 zur Verfilmung seiner Nightflyers an, gefolgt von einer gleichnamigen Syfy-TV-Neuauflage aus dem Jahr 2019. Aber erst HBOs konfliktreiches Serienepos basierend auf seiner Fantasy-Saga Das Lied von Eis und Feuer, die Millionen Zuschauer auf...
8. März 2021 · Netflix is developing a fantasy film based on Sandkings, a Hugo-winning story by Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin. The film will be directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Dennis Kelly, and follows a cruel collector of exotic animals who buys a new pet with a hive mind.
