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I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.
George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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