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A Song of Ice and Fire, 7 Volumes: The box-set collection for the bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF THRONES

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One of his favorite authors is Jack Vance, [34] although Martin considered the series not particularly Vancean. Putting Avalon aside, Martin finished this chapter in a few days and grew certain that it was part of a longer story. A Song of Ice and Fire is the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones, the most-watched TV series of all time.

Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. 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. Providing sensory detail for an immersive experience is more important than plot advancement for Martin, [22] who aims to let the readers experience the novels' sex scenes, "whether it's a great transcendent, exciting, mind blowing sex, or whether it's disturbing, twisted, dark sex, or disappointing perfunctory sex. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services.

Discover the series behind the global phenomenon and the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age with this seven-book collection. Martin aims to "make my characters real and to make them human, characters who have good and bad, noble and selfish well-mixed in their natures".

Across the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms, Brienne the Beauty (thus named in mockery of her great size and strength) seeks for Sansa Stark, having vowed to protect Sansa from the wrath of Queen Cersei, Tommen's power-hungry mother. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. Both books begin immediately after the end of A Storm of Swords, [22] running in parallel instead of sequentially, and involve different casts of characters with only little overlap. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case within thirty (30) days of the day we confirm via e-mail that you are entitled to a refund for defective goods.

Now, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces--some familiar, others only just appearing--emerge from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges of the terrible times ahead. In March 2020, Martin stated that he was writing The Winds of Winter every day, [72] and in June he hoped to be done with it in 2021.

The three dragons soon become not only a symbol of her bloodline and her claim to the throne, but also devastating weapons of war, which help her in the conquest of Slaver's Bay. Books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series are first published in hardcover and are later re-released as paperback editions. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.The material of the written 250-page prologue was mixed in as new viewpoint characters from Dorne and the Iron Islands. With A Dance with Dragons said to be half-finished, [51] Martin mentioned in the epilogue of A Feast for Crows that the next volume would be released by the next year.

Martin also acknowledged spending too much time on rewriting and perfecting the story, but soundly rejected the theories of some of his critics that he had lost interest in the series or would bide his time to make more money. Not sure how this compares with the Film Series of the same name as neither of us have watched any of them. Martin originally envisioned the series as a trilogy but has released five out of a planned seven volumes.A Clash of Kings was the first book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series to make the best-seller lists, [27] reaching 13 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1999. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. 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 groundbreaking debut novel of Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers, one of the most imaginative voices in contemporary science fiction, is a truly galactic limited edition.

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