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Sandkings is a science fiction story by George R. R. Martin, published in 1979 and awarded the Hugo, Nebula and Locus prizes. It tells of a wealthy collector who buys and mistreats exotic creatures called sandkings, which turn out to be intelligent and vengeful.
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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...
Sandkings is a novelette set in the "Thousand Worlds" universe, where a wealthy playboy buys and mistreats alien creatures called sandkings. The sandkings are telepathic and build castles out of sand, and eventually turn on their abuser in a gruesome way.
Sandkings. In this stunning adaptation of G.R.R. Martin's harrowing novelette, Simon Kress is a scientist working on incubating eggs taken from Martian soil.
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2 de mar. de 2021 · A Netflix vai produzir uma série baseada na novela de ficção científica Sandkings, premiada em 1979, que envolve animais exóticos e telepatia. Gore Verbinski e Dennis Kelly são os responsáveis pelo projeto, que promete ser "uma história surpreendente".
26 de ago. de 2019 · The Golden Age of Science Fiction: “Sandkings,” by George R.R. Martin. The Hugo Award was first presented at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention (sometimes called Philcon II), held in Philadelphia from September 5-7, 1953. No short fiction awards were presented the first year.
