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Martin's fiction peaked right here unironically

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otherwise just read older stories seeing the current state of fantasy, two that i would recommend would be
planet of adventure- jack vance
tuf voyaging - grrm

I recently read some old-time space operas, tuf voyaging by grrm and the planet of adventure by jack vance, and the atmosphere that they have created is mesmerising though they cover different aspects.
Tuf voyaging is martin's self-avowed homage to vance, more so than the songs of dying earth, and it can be observed in the interaction of the characters, and in the stilted, baroque dialogue. It is set in the 1000 worlds like his other stories: dying of the light, song for lya, sandkings and windhaven to name a few.
I have tracked down and read all the works in this setting, and have found them to be extremely well written; martin has this capacity of writing from a myriad of viewpoints and this tone oozes through all of his work.
So, the dying of the light and windhaven are melancholic, whereas tuf voyaging focusses on the ecological aspects of the planets and their manipulation.
The loosely-connected series stands incomplete; many do not know that martin was supposed to tie-up his manrealm saga, as they are called, with a series (mostly a trilogy) on Avalon, a planet that is in the background of most of his stories, when he conceived asoiaf.