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- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire abstract "A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991. He published it in 1996. Martin gradually extended his originally intended trilogy to seven volumes, the fifth of which, A Dance with Dragons, took him five years to write before its publication in 2011. Martin's work on his sixth, The Winds of Winter, is still underway.The story of A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos, with a history of thousands of years. The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of an assortment of characters that grows from nine, in the first, to thirty-one by the fifth novel. Three predominant stories interweave: a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros; the rising threat of the dormant cold supernatural Others dwelling beyond an immense wall of ice on Westeros' northern border; and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter of a king murdered in a civil war shortly before her birth, to return to Westeros with her fire-breathing dragons and take the iron throne which she believes to be hers by right.Martin defied the conventions of the high fantasy genre by drawing upon such historical events as the Wars of the Roses. He drew particular inspiration from the French historical novel series The Accursed Kings, set in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and later wrote the introduction to the English translation of the series, saying: "The Accursed Kings has it all. Believe me, the Starks and the Lannisters have nothing on the Capets and Plantagenets. It is the original game of thrones". A Song of Ice and Fire received favorable critique for its diverse portrayal of women and religion, and praise for favoring realism over magic in its battles and political intrigue. While the first novel contains hardly any magic at all, the prominence of magic grows in the later volumes. The assortment of disparate, subjective, and not always accurate points of view confronts the reader with a variety of perspectives on each of the other characters from one chapter to the next. The reader may not safely presume that a favorite prominent character will prevail, or even survive. Violence, sexuality and moral ambiguity frequently arise among a set of over a thousand named characters.Though initially published without great fanfare, the books have sold more than 24 million copies in North America alone as of September 2013, and have been translated into more than 20 languages. The fourth and fifth volumes reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller lists upon their releases. Among the many derived works are three prequel novellas in a series and another further historical prequel, the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, a comic book adaptation, and several card, board, and video games.".
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- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire author George_R._R._Martin.
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire books "* A Game of Thrones * A Clash of Kings * A Storm of Swords * A Feast for Crows * A Dance with Dragons * The Winds of Winter * A Dream of Spring".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire country "United States".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire genre High_fantasy.
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- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire imageCaption "North American covers for the first five books, illustrated by Larry Rostant".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire language "English".
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- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire name "A Song of Ice and Fire".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire pubDate "August 1996 – present".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire publisher "* Bantam Books * Voyager Books".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire quote ""After all, as some of you like to point out in your emails, I am sixty years old and fat, and you don't want me to 'pull a Robert Jordan' on you and deny you your book. Okay, I've got the message. You don't want me doing anything except A Song of Ice and Fire. Ever. "".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire quote ""That just came to me out of nowhere. I was actually at work on a different novel, and suddenly I saw that scene. It didn’t belong in the novel I was writing, but it came to me so vividly that I had to sit down and write it, and by the time I did, it led to a second chapter, and the second chapter was the Catelyn chapter where Ned has just come back and she gets the message that the king is dead."".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire quote ""[Martin's Ice and Fire series] was groundbreaking in all kinds of ways. Above all, the books were extremely unpredictable, especially in a genre where readers have come to expect the intensely predictable. [...] A Game of Thrones was profoundly shocking when I first read it, and fundamentally changed my notions about what could be done with epic fantasy."".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire source "—Fantasy writer Joe Abercrombie in 2008".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire source "—George R. R. Martin in 2014".
- A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire source "—George R. R. Martin on his blog in 2009".
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