A Song of Ice and Fire

A Song of Ice and Fire is a fantasy novel written by George R. R. Martin. First published on January 1, 1996, the book falls under the genre of fantasy and is a part of the literature industry. It has been published by various publishers, including HarperCollins, Bantam Books, AST, and Gigamesh. A Song of Ice and Fire is considered both a book and a creative work.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a fantasy novel written by George R. R. Martin. First published on January 1, 1996, the book falls under the genre of fantasy and is a part of the literature industry. It has been published by various publishers, including HarperCollins, Bantam Books, AST, and Gigamesh. A Song of Ice and Fire is considered both a book and a creative work.

A song of Ice And Fire

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is a series of fantasy novels by American writer and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing this series in 1991. Originally conceived as a trilogy, by now it has grown to five published volumes, and two more are in the project. The author has also written prequel novels and a series of novellas, which are excerpts from the main novels of the series. One of these stories, "Dragon's Blood", was awarded the Hugo Award. The first three novels in the series were awarded the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1997, 1999 and 2001, respectively.

As of April 2015, the total sales of the books in the series worldwide exceeded 60 million copies, they were translated into 45 languages. The fourth and fifth volumes reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list.

The growing popularity of the series led to the fact that HBO acquired the rights to the film adaptation and began creating a television adaptation. Popular board and role-playing games, collections of artwork based on books have also become part of the media franchise. The French computer game developer Cyanide signed an agreement with Martin to create a series of games based on the cycle; on September 29, 2011, the first of them, the strategic Game of Thrones: The Beginning, created based on the series, was released, and on May 15, 2012, an RPG game called Game of Thrones was released.

The action of "A Song of Ice and Fire" takes place in a fictional world reminiscent of Late Medieval Europe. In the world of the Song, summer and winter last for years; the events of the books span several years, which account for the end of a long ten-year summer, autumn and the beginning of a heavy and indefinitely long winter.

A number of storylines are connected with the struggle for the Iron Throne - the throne of Westeros. After the death in the first book of King Robert Baratheon, a power struggle between influential Houses and their vassals unfolds - first in the form of palace intrigues, then in the form of a civil war. Some regions of the country are splitting off, proclaiming themselves independent states.

An important storyline, centered on the bastard boy Jon Snow, is connected with the events in the far north of Westeros, where a giant Wall protects the southern kingdoms of people from the wild lands on the other side of the wall. Here, with the end of summer, Others appear - sinister supernatural beings associated with cold and death.

Part of the story takes place outside of Westeros — on the eastern continent of Essos. Daenerys Targaryen, the last representative of the Targaryen dynasty that once ruled Westeros, but was overthrown by Robert Baratheon, is trying to find allies to regain the Iron Throne that belonged to her ancestors. Daenerys becomes the mistress of the last three remaining dragons in the world.

A song of Ice And Fire

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991; the book was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011 and took Martin six years to write. He is currently writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter. A seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is planned.

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is a series of fantasy novels by American writer and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing this series in 1991. Originally conceived as a trilogy, by now it has grown to five published volumes, and two more are in the project. The author has also written prequel novels and a series of novellas, which are excerpts from the main novels of the series. One of these stories, "Dragon's Blood", was awarded the Hugo Award. The first three novels in the series were awarded the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1997, 1999 and 2001, respectively.

A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos. The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine in the first novel, to 31 characters by the fifth novel. Three main stories interweave: a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros, the rising threat of the supernatural Others in northernmost Westeros, and the ambition of the deposed king's exiled daughter to assume the Iron Throne.

As of April 2015, the total sales of the books in the series worldwide exceeded 60 million copies, they were translated into 45 languages. The fourth and fifth volumes reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list.

Martin's inspirations included the Wars of the Roses and the French historical novels The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon. An assortment of disparate and subjective points of view confronts the reader, and the success or survival of point-of-view characters is never assured. Within the often morally ambiguous world of A Song of Ice and Fire, questions concerning loyalty, pride, human sexuality, piety, and the morality of violence frequently arise.

The growing popularity of the series led to the fact that HBO acquired the rights to the film adaptation and began creating a television adaptation. Popular board and role-playing games, collections of artwork based on books have also become part of the media franchise. The French computer game developer Cyanide signed an agreement with Martin to create a series of games based on the cycle; on September 29, 2011, the first of them, the strategic Game of Thrones: The Beginning, created based on the series, was released, and on May 15, 2012, an RPG game called Game of Thrones was released.

The books have sold 90 million copies worldwide as of April 2019, after having been translated into 47 languages as of January 2017. 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 several prequel novellas, a TV series, a comic book adaptation, and several card, board, and video games.

The action of "A Song of Ice and Fire" takes place in a fictional world reminiscent of Late Medieval Europe. In the world of the Song, summer and winter last for years; the events of the books span several years, which account for the end of a long ten-year summer, autumn and the beginning of a heavy and indefinitely long winter.

A number of storylines are connected with the struggle for the Iron Throne - the throne of Westeros. After the death in the first book of King Robert Baratheon, a power struggle between influential Houses and their vassals unfolds - first in the form of palace intrigues, then in the form of a civil war. Some regions of the country are splitting off, proclaiming themselves independent states.

An important storyline, centered on the bastard boy Jon Snow, is connected with the events in the far north of Westeros, where a giant Wall protects the southern kingdoms of people from the wild lands on the other side of the wall. Here, with the end of summer, Others appear - sinister supernatural beings associated with cold and death.

Part of the story takes place outside of Westeros — on the eastern continent of Essos. Daenerys Targaryen, the last representative of the Targaryen dynasty that once ruled Westeros, but was overthrown by Robert Baratheon, is trying to find allies to regain the Iron Throne that belonged to her ancestors. Daenerys becomes the mistress of the last three remaining dragons in the world.