The stories in Tuf Voyaging are set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of Martin's other works, including Dying of the Light, Sandkings, Nightflyers, A Song for Lya and " The Way of Cross and Dragon". Tuf travels the galaxy, offering his services to worlds with environmental problems, and sometimes imposing solutions of his own. Tuf inadvertently becomes the master of the Ark, an ancient, 30-kilometre-long (19 mi) "seedship" – a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities – after a deal between several of his venal and cutthroat passengers goes awry. The novel concerns the (mis)adventures of Haviland Tuf, an exceptionally tall, bald, very pale, overweight, phlegmatic, vegetarian, cat-loving-but-otherwise solitary space trader. The book includes a prologue and Martin's S'uthlam storyline (published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact), adding them as bridging material, and gathering them with other Tuf stories into one episodic novel. This novel is a collection of related short fiction works, originally published over several years, beginning with 1976's "A Beast for Norn". It is a darkly comic meditation on environmentalism and absolute power.
Martin, first published in hardcover by Baen Books. Tuf Voyaging is a 1986 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer George R.
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