Voyaging.Martin, whose A Song Of Ice And Fire series was adapted to become Game Of Thrones, said that the idea for the new book came to him “long before” his idea for the novels.“The Thousand Worlds stories spanned centuries and light years and had their own cast of heroes, villains, legends, and colourful characters… none of them more colourful than the trader (and ecological engineer) Haviland Tuf, the protagonist of a long series of stories I collected together in the fix-up Tuf Voyaging,”