The third volume of his six-volume fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire, A Storm of Swords continues Martin's vigorous account of the civil wars which follow the death of King Robert, the usurper who deposed a dynasty gone mad and dangerous, and the judicial murder by his widow and heir of Ned Stark, the man who made him king. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel.and the coldest hearts. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. 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.
And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns.
There have been many pretenders to the throne of Tolkien: now at last he has a true heir.Ī comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Thronged with memorable characters, it unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions. A Game of Thrones begins the most imaginative, ambitious and compelling fantasy epic since The Lord of the Rings. And in the bitter-cold, unliving lands beyond the Wall, a terrible winter gathers and the others - the undead, the neverborn, wildlings to whom the threat of the sword is nothing - make ready to descend on the realms of men. In the game of thrones, you win or you die. Set in a fabulous world scarred by battle and catastrophe over 8000 years of recorded history, it tells of the deeds of men and women locked in the deadliest of conflicts and the terrible legacy they will leave their children. Martin unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with memorable characters, a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic. The first volume of George R R Martin's glorious high fantasy tells the tragic story of treachery, greed and war that threatens the unity of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall.
For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.įirst volume of a brilliant new fantasy trilogy: the most powerful, original and absorbing new epic since Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone-a structure only as strong as those guarding it. But Daenerys has three times three thousand 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 once again-beset by newly emerging threats from every direction.
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