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. However, as Time 's Lev Grossman noted, readers "experience the struggle for Westeros from all sides at once", such that "every fight is both triumph and tragedy [. This two-volume edition is a masterclass in everything that makes a Folio edition so irresistible, with each detail thoughtfully designed and crafted with passion and finesse.

Books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series are first published in hardcover and are later re-released as paperback editions. of our deliveries are made by Royal Mail as we think they give the best service and cover all areas of the UK. The viewpoint characters, who serve as unreliable narrators, [22] may clarify or provide different perspectives on past events. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel!Neuware - The complete box set of George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. When Martin had still not reached the novel's end at 1,400 manuscript pages, he felt that the series needed to be four and eventually six books long, [27] [32] which he imagined as two linked trilogies of one long story. In 1994, Martin gave his agent, Kirby McCauley, the first 200 pages and a two-page story projection as part of a planned trilogy with the novels A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter intended to follow.

Martin chose A Song of Ice and Fire as the overall series title: Martin saw the struggle of the cold Others and the fiery dragons as one possible meaning for "Ice and Fire", whereas the word "song" had previously appeared in Martin's book titles A Song for Lya and Songs the Dead Men Sing, stemming from his obsessions with songs. 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". Both one-time and regular POV characters are designed to have full character arcs ending in tragedy or triumph, [38] and are written to hold the readers' interest and not be skipped in reading. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice. Attracted to gray characters, [122] Martin instead endorses William Faulkner's view that only the human heart in conflict with itself was worth writing about.The family names were designed in association with ethnic groups (see backstory): the First Men in the North of Westeros had very simply descriptive names like Stark and Strong, whereas the descendants of the Andal invaders in the South have more elaborate, undescriptive house names like Lannister or Arryn, and the Targaryens and Valyrians from the Eastern continent have the most exotic names with the letter Y. The first volume of George R R Martin's glorious high fantasy tells the tragic story of treachery, greed and war that threatens the unity of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation.

To help keep track of the intricate plotlines, this edition comes complete with updated and expanded genealogies. Martin said in March 2012 that the final two novels will take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and that the Others will appear.Yet Martin felt historical fiction, particularly when set during the Middle Ages, had an excitement, grittiness, and a realness to it that was absent in fantasy with a similar backdrop.