The Hugo Award-winning story of a culture with a strange religion, and the young woman who succumbs to the consequences of its belief system...a man trapped between the realms of the real and not-real in a lonely deep space outpost...a hero whose exemplary life is a disposable item to his superiors...a life-or-death football game that determines the survival of nations...an eerie white antique car that challenges a young man to race on the knife-edge of reality...these and other stories define the future worlds of George R.R. Martin...complex, ingenious, prophetic, yet vividly real, reverberating with implications for our own reality.