Tuf Voyaging (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: George R. R. Martin
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cultural exploration
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: Interstellar space and various planets, primarily S’uthlam
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Plague
- Locales: Space, Fictional planets
The Plot
The first story in what was to become the Tuf Voyaging sequence, “A Beast for Norn,” appeared in the 1976 anthology edited by Peter Weston, Andromeda 1. The remaining six stories were published in Analog between 1978 and 1985. In the first story, Haviland Tuf is already the owner of a thirty-kilometer-long “seedship” of the extinct Ecological Engineering Corps, designed by the long-dead Federal Empire of Earth to win a war now a thousand years in the past. The seedship, known as the Ark, gives Tuf the power to create life-forms...
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