Fair enough: Martin’s descriptions are rich, his plotting detailed, and his writing engrossing. Martin is popular because his books are “ fantasy for people who hate fantasy,” or “ The Wire in Middle Earth,” as some reviewers have explained.

Tolkien and profiled in The New Yorker, and HBO has vowed to continue making Game of Thrones “as long as keeps writing.” The HBO show, dubbed Game of Thrones after the first book in the series, has been a commercial success, spurring sales of all five novels. Martin has been praised as the American J.R.R. “A Song of Ice and Fire,” his epic fantasy series, just finished its first season as an HBO television show, and his latest book, a 1,040-page tome called A Dance With Dragons, recently hit No. Martin is more famous than he’s ever been. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.A Dance With Dragons (Book Five of “A Song of Ice and Fire”)Īt 62, novelist and former Hollywood screenwriter George R.R. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.įrom all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone-a structure only as strong as those guarding it. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.įleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance-beset by newly emerging threats from every direction.

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