The Lightning Tree

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This thrilling collection of twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale, chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire. Stories: “Everybody Loves a Rogue” (Introduction) by George R. R. Martin “Tough Times All Over” by Joe Abercrombie “What Do You Do?” by Gillian Flynn “The Inn of the Seven Blessings” by Matt Hughes “Bent Twig” by Joe R. Lansdale “Tawny Petticoats” by Michael Swanwick “Provenance” by David W. Ball “The Roaring Twenties” by Carrie Vaughn “Bad Brass” by Bradley Denton “Heavy Metal” by Cherie Priest “The Meaning of Love” by Daniel Abraham “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch “A Better Way to Die” by Paul Cornell “Ill Seen in Tyre” by Steven Saylor “A Cargo of Ivories” by Garth Nix “Diamonds From Tequila” by Walter Jon Williams “The Caravan to Nowhere” by Phyllis Eisenstein “The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives” by Lisa Tuttle “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back” by Neil Gaiman “Now Showing” by Connie Willis “The Lightning Tree” by Patrick Rothfuss “The Rogue Prince, or, a King’s Brother” by George R. R. Martin