Furthermore, Fire & Blood contains an overview of the entire Targaryen succession, and a family tree depicting the Targaryen family until 136AC. Martin has always been a writer that walks up to the line of good taste, drops his trousers, and poops on the line. It is part of what makes A Song of Ice and Fire so memorable, this willingness to provide a fully un-PC, X-rated take on classic fantasy tropes. Unfortunately, in Fire and Blood, he doubles down on the grosser aspects of his previous novels, to the extent that they feel less like plot-points and more like pathologies. If you read only Fire and Blood and were asked to describe Martin, you would be forced to say he is a man that is obsessed with incest, “lustily” nursing infants, underage sex (try not to throw up when a “beautiful” six year-old is presented for marriage), and underage sex between brother and sister, resulting in a nursing infant. Gyldayn repeatedly emphasizes that all the aforementioned sources are not entirely objective and reliable (least of all The Testimony of Mushroom), and they often contradict each other: Munkun's account is pro-Rhaenyra; Eustace's account is anti-Rhaenyra; Mushroom takes no side but his account consists of ribald tales and gossip, piling stabbings, poisonings, betrayals, seductions, and debaucheries. Gyldayn expresses his skeptical opinion about the reliability of the different sources, casting doubts especially regarding Mushroom's tales, but presents them all to the readers. Also of interest is thatGarcía andAntonsson are under contract for more than one book. There’s been talk of a “Who’s Who in Westeros” kind of book on the horizon, and of course, we have to mention that the cover of The Rise of the Dragonmarks it as “Part 1.” As we speak, Martin is working on a second volume of Fire & Blood; the first tells the history of the Targaryen dynasty roughly through the end of the Dance of the Dragons while Part 2 will bring us up to the fall of Aerys Targaryen. One assumes that The Rise of the Dragon, Part 2will be an illustrated version of that. The Seven-Pointed Star · The Faith Militant · Volantis · Braavos · The Faceless Men · Winterfell · The Lord Commanders · Robert's Rebellion: Barristan Selmy · Dorne · The Fighting Pits of Meereen · The River Rhoyne · The Many-Faced God · Greyscale and the Stone Men · The Great Masters of Meereen

Fire & Blood was first announced on August 31, 2013 on Martin's blog "Not A Blog," with the working title GRRMarillion (a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion.) This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. Officially, A Song of Ice and Fire consists of 7 books, but only 5 of them were published. When will the 6th book of A Song of Ice and Fire be published?Martin, George R.R. (March 12, 2014). "The Rogues Are Coming..." Not A Blog. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014 . Retrieved November 17, 2021– via LiveJournal. The second offering is a new one; it’s the hardcover edition of THREE KINGS, the twenty-ninth volume in the Wild Cards series. Harper Collins Voyager released it on Friday, May 1 in the UK. “This one is a sequel to KNAVES OVER QUEENS, and like that volume it is set entirely in the British Isles, featuring a cast of English and Irish aces, jokers, and knaves, including the Seamstress, the Green Man, Badh, Double Helix, and Enigma”. Martin wrote about Three Kings. But as much as I love the Conqueror, my true alliances (and my heart) lie with King Jaehaerys I and his wife, the Good Queen Alysanne. Prior to reading Fire and Blood, I paid both of them no mind, but now I'll never forget them. They are one of my all-time favorite characters. Jaehaerys ascended the throne in 48 AC at the age of fourteen to rule the Seven Kingdoms for the next fifty-five years until his death of natural causes in 103 AC. What a mood! Archmaester Umbert famously declared that Aegon the Dragon and his sisters conquered the Seven Kingdoms, but it was Jaehaerys the Conciliator who truly made them one. More positive critics of the book included Dan Jones of The Sunday Times, who called it "a masterpiece of popular historical fiction," and Chris Lough of Tor.com who proclaimed it as "the best Song of Ice and Fire book in 18 years," referring to A Storm of Swords. Y Draig Goch-In Welsh mythology, after a long battle (which the Welsh King Vortigern witnesses) a red dragon defeats a white dragon; Merlin explains to Vortigern that the red dragon symbolizes the Welsh, and the white dragon symbolizes the Saxons

In contract to the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, which are narrated by POV characters, Fire & Blood is a history book, narrated from the perspective of Archmaester Gyldayn, who lived (according to a semi-canon source) into the reign of King Robert Baratheon, many years after the events detailed in the book. Gyldayn bases his records on various sources, among them: Muy bien, no hay descripciones detalladas, ni diálogos. ¿Importa? No. Considero que tiene todo lo necesario para mantenerte interesado. Y sobretodo enganchado. Dragones, guerras, muerte, reinas y reyes de distintas naturalezas y personalidades. Los hay muy valientes, justos, crueles, débiles o locos. O una mezcla. Muy humanos. Unravelling events that led to A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros. Revealing long-buried secrets and untold lasting enmity, it sets the scene for the next heart-stopping title in the series, The Winds of Winter. The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling by Grand Maester Munkun, based on the account of Grand Maester Orwyle Another adaptation of material from the book, The Sea Snake, was revealed to be in development in March 2022. It focuses on a young Corlys Velaryon, who is one of the main characters of House of the Dragon. Bruno Heller, creator and showrunner of the historical drama Rome, is writing the pilot script.

Voy a romper una lanza en favor de este autor y decir que este libro me parece espectacular. La enorme riqueza y grandeza de este mundo de fantasía y cómo lo exprime. Cuando salió lo criticaron por escribirlo en vez de sacar el que todos esperan. Y lo entiendo muy bien. WARNING: This book is NOT a novel. It is written like a history book with no dialogue, and everything is all tell and no show. From the masterly imagination behind A Game of Thrones - one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time and an unmissable HBO hit series - comes a definitive history of Westeros’s past as told by Archmaester Gyldayn. Game of Thrones has been one of our favorite things from the last decade. The story of Westeros spanning over eight seasons thrilled us to our core. However, before the show, there were books. And as much credit Game of Thrones owes to its creators, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, even more, remains due to the author, George R. R. Martin. Starting in 1996, the American writer has published five books in the series of A Song of Ice and Fire along with a few novellas and reference books. There are two more in the frontline of the story – The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, which are long-awaited. While there are no signs of The Winds, GRRM has thrown some color at us by announcing that A Storm of Swords (ASOS) is set to appear in a new illustrated form.