High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tuf Voyaging is a science fiction fix-up novel by George R. R. Martin, first published in 1986. It is a darkly comic meditation on environmentalism and absolute power. Martin cited fantasy fiction and science fiction SFWA Grand Master Jack Vance as having a large influence on his Haviland Tuf stories, Martin going so far as trying to emulate Vance`s writing style in most of them.