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Fevre Dream (Fantasy Masterworks 13) Paperback – 28 Aug 2008

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (28 Aug. 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0575083042
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575083042
  • Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.7 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
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"Even in the best science fiction stories, it is rare to find a genuine alien culture that is believable and self-consistent. George R. R. Martin's novel presents several such cultures, and forces them into conflicts that bring out the best--and the worst--in the human characters who make this story live, breathe, and bleed."

A novel that will delight fans of both Stephen King and Mark Twain . . . darkly romantic, chilling and rousing by turns . . . a thundering success. Roger Zelazny
An adventure into the heart of darkness that transcends even the most inventive vampire novels . . . Fevre Dream runs red with original, high adventure. Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Stands alongside Anne Rice s Interview with the Vampire as a revolutionary work. Rocky Mountain News
Engaging and meaningful. The Washington Post Book World"

"A novel that will delight fans of both Stephen King and Mark Twain . . . darkly romantic, chilling and rousing by turns . . . a thundering success."--Roger Zelazny
"An adventure into the heart of darkness that transcends even the most inventive vampire novels . . . Fevre Dream runs red with original, high adventure."--Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"Stands alongside Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire as a revolutionary work."--Rocky Mountain News
"Engaging and meaningful."--The Washington Post Book World --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Vampires and the deep south, from the author of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, now filmed as A GAME OF THRONES

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5.0 out of 5 starsONE OF THOSE 'CAN'T PUT DOWN STORIES'. LOVED IT
By Ossy on 19 Dec. 2016
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Read this years ago. Felt the need to re-read because, although I couldn't remember the story v.well, just knew it had made a lasting impression and was good..
So glad to find it on Amazon. It was like reading from new all over again, one of those 'can't put down' books. Strong characters, intense, moving story. So well written. Lots of lovely detail about the world of river life and paddle steamers too, you sort of imagine you're there amongst them all (hoping you don't bump into the 'you know whats'). Don't normally read vampire lit. any more. Seen the films, been there, done that etc. This was altogether different and very clever. Felt real loss when I'd finished it.
Is now patiently waiting in my bedside table drawer - till next time!
George RR Martin had a winner with this one. Fully Recommend
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4.0 out of 5 starsVampires down South
By E. A. Solinas HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 26 Aug. 2011
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"Fevre Dream" is one of those brilliant genre novels that slipped between the cracks for many years, only to flower again when the vampire craze did. George R.R. Martin wove his own unique vampire mythos, and mixed it in with Southern grittiness, some shocking gore, and a grizzled ugly old man who may be the vampires' salvation.

Steamboat captain Abner Marsh has become business partners with the gentlemanly Joshua York, who pays for the construction of the ultimate steamboat. But strange deaths along the Mississippi lead Abner to suspect that something isn't quite kosher with Joshua, until Joshua reveals the truth about himself -- he and his friends are vampires, who are working to free his race from their bloodlust.

However, the evil bloodmaster Damon Julian wants to keep the vampires as-is, since it allows him greater power over his brethren. He's even got a Gollumesque human serving him before long. Abner's attempts to help his friend lead to disaster, and it will be many years before the two friends have a chance at killing Damon again...

Martin is one of the few authors who actually bothers to come up with an origin story for his vampires, rather than just having these pale bloodsucking people be... there. Without revealing too much, he weaves a haunting explanation for the biological, spiritual and cultural differences between humans and vampires, and sets them up as a brother race to homo sapiens (instead of undead corpses). It's awesome.

Martin's writing is gritty, dark and sometimes grotesque (a vampire using a BABY as food), and even at the best of times he fills it with the grimy atmosphere of a working-class man living on the Mississippi.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsTwo Stars
By Eli Pledge on 26 May 2017
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Vampire crap
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn absolute tour de force
By Lark on 18 May 2008
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I was surprised when I finished this book to realise it was a fantasy masterwork rather than a sci fi masterwork, if anything it bares striking similarities to "I Am Legend", at least in its portrayal of vampires as something other than reanimated corpses or cursed undead.

While the existence of vampires, their possible reconciliation with mankind or continued existence as predators with dillusions of grandeur or supremacy, is essential to the plot it is also a spellbinding tale about Abner Marsh, unlikely and accidential hero, man of his word, riverboat captain and in some ways "everyman".

Marsh doesnt have any strong opinions about slavery, politics, things of that nature but his direct encounters with the vampires, experiencing debates about superiority and inferiority between mankind and the vampiric other he thinks again about slavery in the run up to what becomes the American civil war.

The Fevre Dream is the name of Marsh's riverboat which he gets as part of a deal with a strange nocturnal mysteryman, it is a dream realised for Marsh and becomes something of an obsession and before the book is concluded the reader is reminded and given cause to reflect in the most brilliant way. Other reviews have rightly considered have a lot to do with friendship (anyone who enjoyed The Changing Seasons, The Shawshank Redemption and The Body/Stand by Me would appreciate this book) but its also about dreams, Marsh's riverboat dream across his lifetime, the dreams and leitmotifs of the other characters, dark and light.

This book proved to be compelling, the pace is perfect, the descriptions exacting and never over done, I'm confident that if you give over the time to reading it you'll find it rewarding. One of those rare books which when you're finished you can say you didnt just read it, you "lived it".
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood vampire yarn
By daveoc on 22 Feb. 2017
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Read this on the strength of 'A Song Of Ice and Fire,' and found it another thoroughly enjoyable read. Good vampire yarn.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGREAT BOOK
By Mollikins on 14 Mar. 2017
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Fantastic book bought it many years ago so I am right chuffed I am able to listen to the book
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By gumdrop on 11 Dec. 2016
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Vampires on the Missisippi!
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis is a brilliant and original book
By Lexi Rees on 12 Oct. 2016
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When you pick up a novel by a famous author, it's hard not to have preconceptions about the style and subject, so having read (and watched) the entire Game of Thrones series I expected another epic world in Fevre Dream. Written 14 years before Game of Thrones, this was actually his first fantasy novel and is a marked departure from his earlier science fiction books.

Instead of spanning continents, Fevre Dreams is contained in one small stretch of river in the deep south of America. The descriptions of the setting are, however, every bit as evocative as "the Wall" and "Kings Landing": you can feel and breathe the heat, humidity and closeness.

Instead of competing dynasties, the novel is focused on two men, closely following their dreams and troubles over the years and into old age.

And instead of a wide cast of high profile lords, ladies and warriors, the lead character is an ordinary working man. His emotions are so vividly described that it's impossible not to feel every high and low along with him.

This is a brilliant and original book, far more thought provoking than most fantasy genre novels that I have read.
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