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Fevre Dream

by George R. R. Martin

A riverboat voyage with a hidden purpose

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A riverboat voyage with a hidden purpose

Set on the Mississippi in 1857, *Fevre Dream* brings vampire fiction into the world of riverboat commerce and travel. Struggling captain Abner Marsh accepts a lucrative offer from the enigmatic Joshua York, whose reasons for journeying upriver are kept from him. The arrangement gives the story two intertwined sources of tension: Marsh’s practical concerns about his failing fleet, and the larger, increasingly strange purpose behind the voyage. The supplied description frames York’s mission as both sinister and potentially noble, placing questions of danger and human possibility alongside the novel’s supernatural premise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in vampire fiction set against a historical American river setting.
  • Readers who enjoy stories pairing practical stakes with a mysterious journey and concealed motives.

Themes

Vampires and the supernaturalSecrecy and hidden motivesRiver travel and commerceDanger and human possibility

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Book overview

A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something's amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn't care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh's dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won't earn back his investment in a decade. York's reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh's concern--no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York's actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare--and humankind's most impossible dream.

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