Portraits of His Children
# Portraits of His Children

Portraits of His Children is the sixth short story collection by author George R.R. Martin. The collection was first published in July 1987 by Dark Harvest. It contains 11 short stories.

The hardcover edition featured interior artwork by illustrators Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn.

The title story, originally published in November 1985 in Asimov's Science Fiction, won the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

## Contents

| # | Title | Year | Note |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | "Closing Time" | 1982 | |
| 2 | "The Glass Flower" | 1986 | Novelette |
| 3 | The Ice Dragon | 1980 | Novelette |
| 4 | "In the Lost Lands" | 1982 | |
| 5 | "The Last Super Bowl Game" | 1975 | Novelette |
| 6 | "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" | 1976 | Previously published in Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977) |
| 7 | "Portraits of His Children" | 1985 | Novelette |
| 8 | "Under Siege" | 1985 | Novelette |
| 9 | "Unsound Variations" | 1982 | Novella |
| 10 | "With Morning Comes Mistfall" | 1973 | Previously published in A Song for Lya (1976) |
| 11 | "The Second Kind of Loneliness" | 1972 | Previously published in A Song for Lya (1976) |
