A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

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HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.
Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men all will play the GAME OF THRONES.

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where a 700-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. The Game of Thrones. You win, or you die.

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire begins the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.

Winter is coming

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Colossal, staggering Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world one of the greats of fantasy literature
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This is one of those rare and effortless reads ROBIN HOBB

George R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books RAYMOND E. FEIST

Such a splendid tale. I read my eyes out I couldnt stop till Id finished and it was dawn ANNE MCCAFFREY

George Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy KATHARINE KERR

Few created worlds are as imaginative and diverse JANNY WURTS

Author Bio

George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as screenplays for television and feature films. Dubbed 'the American Tolkien', George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer on HBO's Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.