The bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF THRONES
George R. R. Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
‘After five volumes Martin is, if anything, a better writer than
when he started. If you're watching A Game of Thrones on HBO,
you're foregoing the great pleasure of Martin's deft prose…’
Time Magazine 'A Game of Thrones has captured the imaginations of
millions for the same reason the archetypal dramas of Homer,
Sophocles or Shakespeare have lasted for millennia. They show us
the conflict between self-sacrifice and self-interest, between the
human spirit and the human ego, between good and evil. And when we
look up from the page we recognise those same conflicts in the
world around us and in ourselves'
The Guardian ‘It is hard to accept that something that enormous and
that popular is as good as people tell you it is’
Independent ‘A Game of Thrones grabs hold and won’t let go. It’s
brilliant.’
Robert Jordan ‘Colossal, staggering… Martin captures all the
intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome
in his imaginary world… one of the greats of fantasy
literature.’
SFX ‘Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the
sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy
writers away shaking their heads… Its ambition: to construct the
Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they
could eat the Borgias.’
Guardian ‘Such a splendid tale. I couldn’t stop till I’d finished
and it was dawn.’
Anne McCaffrey
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