The book “The Glass Flower” continues a panoramic overview of the work of George R. R. Martin, the author of many cult works of modern science fiction, including such as the famous mosaic novel “Wild Cards” and the powerful fantasy canvas “A Song of Ice and Fire” .The writer is represented by different facets of his creativity: in the book you will find adventurous stories about the adventures of the space trader Haviland Tuf, and scripts for the Hollywood television series “The Twilight Zone”, and stories made in the genre of high fantasy (“Hedge Knight”), and nightmare stories in the spirit of Stephen King (“Six Silver Bullets”; World Fantasy Award 1989). Most of the works presented in the collection have been translated into Russian for the first time.