The original inhabitants of the land were the children of the forest (whose old gods are still worshipped in the North), a dimunitive race who lived in harmony with nature and employed powerful magic. The narrative is set primarily in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a large, South America-sized continent with an ancient history stretching back some twelve thousand years, and where the seasons last for years. The background to A Song of Ice and Fire is revealed through the lengthy appendices which follow on from each volume, with additional information revealed through the novellas, the text of the novels themselves and the role-playing game. Martin has cited the cover blurb by Robert Jordan for the first book to have been influential in ensuring the series' early success with fantasy readers. On his website, Martin has acknowledged historical fiction authors such as Bernard Cornwell and George MacDonald Fraser to be influences on the series.
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This has led to the series being cited as a forerunner of a 'gritty' new wave of epic fantasy authors that followed, including Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie, Steven Erikson and Scott Bakker. Likewise, while Tolkien included romance in his tales, Martin writes frequently, albeit in a clever fashion, of sexual matters. While Tolkien was inspired by mythology, A Song of Ice and Fire is more clearly influenced by medieval history, most notably the Wars of the Roses. Tolkien, Jack Vance and Tad Williams, the series differs from these earlier works in its greater interest in and use of realistic elements. While the series is set in a fictional world and Martin has acknowledged his debt to the works of J.R.R. By the end of the fourth volume, there have been twenty-five such characters, although these include eight who only appear once apiece. The series is told in the limited third-person through the eyes of a number of POV characters. As the series progresses, all three storylines become increasingly interwoven and dependent on each other. There are three principal storylines in the series: the chronicling of a dynastic civil war for control of Westeros between several competing families the rising threat of the Others who dwell beyond an immense wall of ice that forms Westeros' northern border and the journey of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter of a king who was murdered in another civil war fifteen years previously and now seeks to return to Westeros and claim her rightful throne. Most of the characters are human but as the series progresses other races are introduced, such as the cold and menacing Others from the far North and fire-breathing dragons from the East, both races thought to be extinct. The story of A Song of Ice and Fire takes place in a fictional world, primarily upon a continent called Westeros but also on a large landmass to the east, known as Essos. There have been two computer games based on the series, with a third planned. The series has been adapted as a board games, a tabletop wargame, a collectible card game and as two tabletop roleplaying games. The series ran for eight seasons, concluding in 2019.
By the end of the show's fourth season, it had become HBO's most successful-ever dramatic series and had won multiple Emmy Awards. The series won instant critical and popular acclaim. In 2011, the American cable television company HBO began airing a drama series based on the books, under the title Game of Thrones. The third through fifth volumes in the series reached the New York Times bestseller list, with the fourth and fifth volumes topping the list in the week of their release. There are also three novellas which act as prequels to the novels, with several more planned, and three other novellas consisting of excepts from the main novels.Ī Song of Ice and Fire has sold over 58 million copies worldwide and is now published in more than twenty languages. Originally envisaged as a trilogy, there are now five published novels in the series with two more planned. He began writing the series in 1991 and the first volume was published in 1996. The US covers of the first five novels in the seriesĪ Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American novelist and screenwriter George R.R.
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