A Song of Ice and Fire Art Battle of the Trident

For the in-universe relate written by Archmaester Ebrose, see A Song of Ice and Fire (Ebrose).

American cover art for the get-go five books in the series

A Song of Ice and Fire is an award-winning series of all-time-selling books of epic fantasy novels past American author and scriptwriter George R.R. Martin. The series currently comprises 5 published novels with 2 more predictable to bring the series to a decision. The fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, was published on July 12, 2011. There are also three prequel novellas set up in the same world. Game of Thrones is the television adaptation of the books.

Contents

• 1 Works
  • ane.ane Chief series novels
  • 1.2 Tales of Douse and Egg
  • one.3 The Trip the light fantastic of the Dragons prequel novellas
  • 1.4 Companion books
    • ane.four.ane The Globe of Water ice & Burn
• two Spin-offs
  • 2.i Board games
  • two.2 Roleplaying games
  • 2.iii Computer and console games
• 3 Meet also
• iv References

Works

Main serial novels

1. A Game of Thrones (1996) - later on which the TV serial is named.
2. A Clash of Kings (1998)
3. A Storm of Swords (2000)
4. A Feast for Crows (2005)
5. A Dance with Dragons (2011)
6. The Winds of Winter (forthcoming)
7. A Dream of Leap (forthcoming)

Tales of Dunk and Egg

Main article: Tales of Dunk and Egg

The Tales of Dunk and Egg are a serial of prequel novellas set about xc years earlier the events of the primary A Vocal of Ice and Fire series.

1. The Hedge Knight (1998)
2. The Sworn Sword (2002)
3. The Mystery Knight (2009)
4. The She-Wolves of Winterfell (forthcoming)

The showtime iii novellas were released in unrelated sci-fi and fantasy short story collections, and were later collected into an jitney titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (featuring new artwork), released in 2015.

Through his blog, Martin has indicated that The She-Wolves of Winterfell was only a working title, and that the final championship when it is released will exist something else. Another forthcoming Dunk & Egg story which he has adequately well planned out is called The Hamlet Hero and takes place in the Riverlands.^[1] Others he intends to write include The Sellsword, The Champion, The Kingsguard, and The Lord Commander, along with several every bit-yet untitled story ideas.^[ii]

At that place are at least nine more, unpublished novellas that Martin tentatively intends to write, for a full of twelve novellas once the entire series is finished.^[3]

The Trip the light fantastic of the Dragons prequel novellas

1. The Princess and the Queen (2013)
2. The Rogue Prince (2014)

Martin began writing a detailed in-universe history text about the great Targaryen civil state of war known as the Trip the light fantastic toe of the Dragons (in which Targaryen fought Targaryen and dragon fought dragon) as a submission for an omnibus of collected works by several authors. In his own words he got a flake carried away, and ended up writing a detailed lxxx,000 word history even though the maximum length fix for the novella submission was xxx,000 pages. Martin had to focus only on one xxx,000 work slice of the larger story, which he submitted as The Princess and the Queen (2013). This was later followed by The Rogue Prince (2014), which is about ten,000 words long. Therefore, as of 2015 most half of what he wrote has not been released.

The narrative conceit that Martin developed for these prequels is a drastic departure from his previous tertiary person POV writing fashion. Instead, it is presented as an in-universe history text from Westeros written by "Archmaester Gyldayn". This format allowed Martin to write about events which were public noesis to almost people in Westeros, while withal keeping the secret reasons why people actually did things unknown, or assuasive secret betrayals to remain secret. To explain why only a 30,000 page department of the full 80,000 word text Martin wrote was not released, he gave the in-universe explanation that Gyldayn'south history text was severely damaged and certain volumes lost, but that new sections are released as before long as the Citadel can locate copies of the missing sections.

As a result, The Rogue Prince takes place immediately before The Princess and the Queen, but it isn't really a true "prequel" because they were both written at the aforementioned time. Rather, it is every bit if the original draft was divided up into eight parts, of which The Princess and the Queen is "role ii through function four" and The Rogue Prince is "part ane", simply the parts were then released out of order. A reader can actually beginning with The Rogue Prince, out of publication guild, without beingness spoiled for subsequently events, considering this is the gild the textile was actually originally intended to exist read in.

Companion books

• The Fine art of Ice and Fire, Volume I (2005).
• The Art of Water ice and Fire, Volume II (2011).
• A Feast of Ice and Fire (2012) - a companion cooking book, with a forwards by Martin.
• The Lands of Ice and Fire (2012) - a drove of map-posters, including exclusive maps previously unreleased with the novels, and the first full map of the known world.
• The World of Ice and Fire (2014) - a sourcebook containing extensive amounts of previously unreleased data well-nigh Westeros, Essos, and other lands. Presented every bit an in-universe history book, giving a broad overview of the entire globe.
• Fire & Blood (2018) - some other in-universe history volume: while the Earth book broadly covers everything from the Due north and the Reach to the Gratuitous Cities, Fire & Blood is focused in more than item on the three century reign of the Targaryen dynasty up to Aegon III. It is meant to be based on all of Martin's previously unpublished notes nigh the backstory of Firm Targaryen. The upcoming prequel series House of the Dragon is based on this book, specifically the events of the Dance of the Dragons.
• Burn & Blood, Book Two (forthcoming) - a continuation of Burn & Blood up to the reign of Aerys 2 Targaryen, the "Mad King." Martin revealed in July 2017 that Burn down & Blood would have a second volume due to the size it had grown too, but that he won't continue with it until after the main novels are finished^[4].

The World of Ice & Fire

The World of Water ice & Fire was published in 2014, presented as being an in-universe history book. It presents the expansive backstory of the known world of Westeros and beyond, much of it never revealed before in the master novels. It has not withal been mentioned within the main novel serial, though it is considered to exist fully part of the volume-continuity canon.

It was produced as an extensive collaboration between Martin himself and his long-time collaborators/fact-checkers, Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson, who run the fansite Westeros.org. The projection lasted nearly 10 years: originally it was intended that Elio & Linda would write most of it equally a summation of what was already mentioned in the novels, with Martin writing a few sidebars, but ultimately he produced vast new amounts of material both nigh the past of Westeros, and about the lands beyond it (actually expanding to particular the histories of lands east of the Dothraki such every bit Yi Ti, which are barely even mentioned in the main novels).

Originally the authors found it hard to but present an objective compendium/encyclopedia of events, considering it would give away major revelations: would an article on Jon Snow really state that he isn't Ned Stark'southward son, but Rhaegar Targaryen'southward? Would an article about Jaime Lannister explain why he really killed the Mad King, fifty-fifty though that is a secret revelation simply given in the third novel? The reply they came up with was to nowadays it as an in-universe history textbook written by "Maester Yandel". Yandel is the writer-avatar of Elio & Linda, merely at times he quotes from an earlier and more expansive history textbook written past "Maester Gyldayn" (the author avatar of George R.R. Martin). Thus the book isn't objective, merely represents what is common knowledge to the average and reasonably well-informed lord in Westeros - i.east. well-nigh people really know the general events of the Robert's Rebellion but in the core novels they don't halt the narrative for a dozen pages to requite a long speech detailing everything about information technology. Similarly, virtually people in real life know the general outline of World War II, but characters in television and movies don't stop to requite long speeches outlining the unabridged outcome, considering they and everyone around them already knows information technology.

Martin really wrote a much longer history of House Targaryen which had to be edited down for the excerpts in The World of Ice & Burn - which were eventually collected into a volume called Fire & Blood.

Spin-offs

Board games

• A Game of Thrones, Fantasy Flight (2003)
  • A Game of Thrones: A Disharmonism of Kings, Fantasy Flight (2004)
  • A Game of Thrones: A Storm of Swords, Fantasy Flight (2006)

Roleplaying games

• A Game of Thrones Roleplaying, Guardians of Lodge (2005)
• A Song of Ice and Burn down Roleplaying: Adventures in the Seven Kingdoms, Greenish Ronin (2009)
  • Peril at Male monarch's Landing, Green Ronin (2009)
  • A Vocal of Ice and Burn Narrator's Kit, Green Ronin (2009)
  • A Vocal of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide, Green Ronin (2010)

Computer and console games

• A Game of Thrones: Genesis, Cyanide Studios (2011)
• A Game of Thrones: The Roleplaying Game, Cyanide Studios (2012)
• Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Serial, Telltale Games (2014)

Come across also

References

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ [2]
3. ↑ [iii]
4. ↑ [iv]

haynesadere1974.blogspot.com

Source: https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire

Share this post