A Song for Lya

Published: 1978
Language: English

This collection features George R. R. Martin's early award-winning science fiction. The title story, 'A Song for Lya,' won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1975. It's a tale of love and sacrifice set against a backdrop of alien cultures and dangerous quests.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Emotional Adventurous Romantic Thought-Provoking

Sacrifice

Science Fiction Short Stories

Authors

Enrique Jiménez Corominas

Enrique Jimenez Corominas is the author of the science fiction classics "A Song for Lya" and "Sandkings." His stories often explore the darker side of human nature and the vastness of the unknown.

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (born 20 September 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. His early work includes the novels Dying of the Light (1977), Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag, and the story collections Sandkings and Tuf Voyaging. From the mid-1980s he also wrote for television, on the revived The Twilight Zone and on Beauty and the Beast, where he became a co-supervising producer. He is best known for the epic fantasy sequence A Song...

Laura López Armas

Laura López Armas is the author of the novel A Song for Lya. She writes speculative fiction that explores big ideas.