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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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Regarding the characters as the heart of the story, [115] Martin planned the epic A Song of Ice and Fire to have a large cast of characters and many different settings from the beginning. R. Martin’s fantasy epic has won millions of fans worldwide, and these Folio editions – described by the author as ‘masterpieces of the bookmaker’ art’ – are packed full of details that devoted readers will find irresistible. In 2012, Martin had acknowledged his concerns about A Dream of Spring not being completed by the time the TV series Game of Thrones catches up in its storyline to the novels. In 2001, Martin was still optimistic that the fourth installment might be released in the last quarter of 2002. The series follows the growing threat of mythical beings roaming beyond the unnerving ice wall; the civil war and battle between the great families of Westeros for the throne of the Seven Kingdoms; and the ambition of a young, exiled daughter of the slain King, desperate to claim her birth right.

The series was in particular influenced by the Hundred Years' War, the Crusades, the Albigensian Crusade, and the Wars of the Roses, [84] [95] although Martin refrained from making any direct adaptations. R. Martin's superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings.He worked principally on the revival of The Twilight Zone throughout 1986 and on Beauty and the Beast until 1990, but he also developed his own TV pilots and wrote feature film scripts. Martin moved the unfinished characters' stories set in the east (Essos) and north (Winterfell and the Wall) into the next book, A Dance with Dragons, [47] and left A Feast for Crows to cover the events in King's Landing, the Riverlands, Dorne, and the Iron Islands. 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. Immerse yourself into a world of political deception, fire-breathing dragons, ancient families and gripping battles.

The storylines are to converge again, but finding the turning point in this complex series has been difficult for Martin and has slowed down his writing.As of 2011 [update], Martin was still typing his fiction on an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS with WordStar 4.

Moral ambiguity pervades the books and their stories continually raise questions concerning loyalty, pride, human sexuality, piety, and the morality of violence. Believing that magic should be used moderately in the epic fantasy genre, [27] Martin set out to make the story feel more like historical fiction than contemporary fantasy, with less emphasis on magic and sorcery and more on battles, political intrigue, and the characters.The revised finished manuscript for A Game of Thrones was 1,088 pages long (without the appendices), [36] with the publication following in August 1996. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. A Storm of Swords was 1,521 pages in manuscript (without appendices), [36] causing problems for many of Martin's publishers around the world. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. In February 2016, Martin stated that he dropped all his editing projects except for Wild Cards, and that he would not be writing any teleplays, screenplays, short stories, introductions or forewords before delivering The Winds of Winter.

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