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  1. Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a ...

    • Daenerys I

      The exiled Princess Daenerys Targaryen prepares to be...

    • Arya X

      After aiding in the fall of Harrenhal, Arya is now serving...

    • Daenerys Vii

      Khal Drogo has defeated another khalasar, capturing a town...

    • Jon I

      Jon Snow finds Samwell Tarly in the dark library cellar of...

    • Theon I

      After an absence of ten years, Theon Greyjoy arrives back...

  2. Other editions may not match the location numbers given for this edition. A similar UK bundle (AGOT, ACOK, ASOS (Steel and Snow and Blood and Gold) and AFFC) is ASIN B0050AV5MW, Harper Voyager (11 May 2011), and it is titled Game of Thrones: The Story Continues. ↑ The single (ASOS only) edition is ASIN B004P1JEWU, Harper Voyager (24 Feb 2011).

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  4. A Game of Thrones is the first of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on 6 August 1996. The novel was nominated for the 1998 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award,[1] and won the 1997 Locus Award.[2] The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen ...

  5. This category is for chapters. Wiki of Westeros. ... Game of Thrones; Advertisement. ... Wiki of Westeros is a FANDOM TV Community.

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    A Game of Thrones is set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a land reminiscent of medieval Europe. In Westeros the seasons last for years, sometimes decades, at a time. Fifteen years prior to the novel, the Seven Kingdoms were torn apart by a civil war, known alternately as 'Robert's Rebellion' and the 'War of the Usurper'. Prince Rhaegar Targaryen...

    A Game of Thronesfollows three principal storylines as they develop in tandem with one another. The novel begins in the year 298 AL (After Landing) and continues for many months, probably into the early months of 299 AL.

    All of the novels in the series use a system for the books where by each chapterconcentrates on one character in a third person, limited point of view. Thus, the chapter list for each book would read something like: "Bran", "Eddard", "Catelyn", "Eddard", "Tyrion", "Catelyn" etc, with the story flipping back and forth between the main characters. Th...

    One of Martin's earliest attempts at writing a fantasy story was 'Dark Gods of Kor-Yuban', which was never published. The two heroes of the short story are the exiled 'Prince R'hllor of Raugg' and his boisterous, swaggering companion 'Argilac the Arrogant'. In an abandoned sequel Argilac teams up with Barron, the Bloody Blade of the Dothrak Empire,...

    American

    The book is published in the USA by Bantam Books. The first edition, published in August 1996, had an embossed silver cover designed by Tom Hallman. A 1997 mass-market paperback followed with a new cover by Stephen Youll. A slightly revised edition of this cover was used for the 2002 hardcover reprinting. In 2005 the covers for all the books were revamped and the cover was replaced by a stylised heraldic image of a direwolf to represent House Stark. In 2000 Mesiha Merlin issued a limited edit...

    British

    The book is published in the UK by Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins. The first edition had a cover designed by Jim Burns which was also used for a booklet containing the first several chapters of the book and sold separately (for 99p) as a preview several months before the hardcover was released. A mass-market paperback followed in 1998 with the same cover. In 2003 the covers for all the books were revamped and the cover was replaced by an image of a dragon's skull, drawn by Larry Rostant.

  6. A Game of Thrones. Links in the first column are to chapter summaries on A Wiki of Ice and Fire and contain book spoilers up to and including that chapter (please note that AWOIAF is an outside source not maintained by the moderators of /r/gameofthrones and thus we cannot guarantee its spoiler-safety). A very brief account of some major events ...

  7. Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. The show premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19 ...

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