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Jeffrey Cho is a Chicago analytics and management consultant who provides client-driven enterprise risk-management solutions. An avid fan of comics and the Marvel Universe, Jeffrey Cho is also a longtime reader of George R. R. Martin. Starting in the 1990s, the fantasy author wrote the celebrated “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, which inspired HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
Originally from New Jersey, Martin grew up in a quiet suburban neighborhood and enjoyed suspenseful early 1960s TV shows such as The Twilight Zone. In 1971, his first short story was published in the science fiction magazine Galaxy. Five years later a collection of his stories, A Song for Lya and Others was published, and in 1979 he debuted as a novelist with Dying of the Light.
Martin’s growing literary reputation brought him a position in Hollywood as story editor for the 1986 Twilight Zone remake, and he subsequently worked on writing for the series Beauty and the Beast. It was here that he learned the limitations of the television world of the era, with the scripts he envisioned often costing well over the budgets available. Tiring of Hollywood constraints, George R. R. Martin ultimately returned to the literary craft with a new series inspired by medieval England’s dynastic Wars of the Roses.
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