A Song of Ice and Fire Series 6 Books Collection Set By George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones, Steel and Snow, Blood and Gold, A Feast for Crows, A Dance With Dragons, A Clash of Kings)

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This painting by Richard Burchett portrays Edward IV demanding that his defeated enemies be taken from Tewkesbury Abbey. Three great storylines weave through the books, charting the civil war for control of the Seven Kingdoms; the defence of the towering Wall of ice in the uttermost north against the unearthly threat of the Others; and across the Narrow Sea the rise to power of Daenerys Targaryen and the last live dragons in the world. Martin has sourced the Massacre of Glencoe and Black Dinner as inspiration for the "Red Wedding", a crucial twist in A Storm of Swords.

A social network game titled Game of Thrones Ascent (2013) by Disruptor Beam allows players to live the life of a noble during the series' period setting. Martin found that some characters had minds of their own and took his writing in different directions. Martin was reluctant to make the necessary deep cuts to get the book down to publishable length, as that would have compromised the story he had in mind. Although fantasy comes from an imaginative realm, Martin sees an honest necessity to reflect the real world where people, even beloved people, sometimes die ugly deaths.Martin drew most character inspiration from history (without directly translating historical figures) [26] and his own experiences, but also from the manners of his friends, acquaintances, and people of public interest. As the war dies down in the Seven Kingdoms, the Stark children navigate crises near and far while Jon Snow ventures with wildlings beyond the Wall. Not sure how this compares with the Film Series of the same name as neither of us have watched any of them. Reuters reported in September 2013 that the books including print, digital and audio versions have sold more than 24 million copies in North America. The 300 pages removed from the A Game of Thrones manuscript served as the opening of the second book, entitled A Clash of Kings.

With the popularity of the series growing, HBO optioned A Song of Ice and Fire for a television adaptation in 2007. Each chapter is told from a limited third-person perspective, drawn from a group of characters that grows from nine in the first novel to 31 by the fifth.But it's not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven Kingdoms gather. At its point of publication in July 2011, A Dance with Dragons was in its sixth print with more than 650,000 hardbacks in print. At the beginning of A Game of Thrones, 15 years have passed since Robert's rebellion, with a nine-year-long summer coming to an end. Martin experienced some harsh winters when living in Dubuque a few years in the 1970s, and suspects these winters had an influence on his writing; "I think a lot of the stuff in A Game of Thrones, the snow and ice and freezing, comes from my memories of Dubuque".

R. Martin--dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine--international acclaim and millions of loyal readers.With A Dance with Dragons said to be half-finished, [51] Martin mentioned in the epilogue of A Feast for Crows that the next volume would be released by the next year. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queens brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister-the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen.